Advertising secrecy, creating power in ancient Mesopotamia : how scholars used secrecy in scribal education to bolster and perpetuate their social prestige and power

Abstract: This study investigates how ancient scholars from mid-first millennium Babylonia and Assyria advertised their possession of secret knowledge to scribal students in order to bolster and perpetuate scholarly social prestige and power in society. After a brief theoretical orientation to issue...

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Autor principal: Lenzi, Alan
Formato: Artículo
Lenguaje:Español
Inglés
Publicado: Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Políticas y de la Comunicación. Departamento de Historia. Centro de Estudios de Historia del Antiguo Oriente 2019
Materias:
PODER
SOCIEDAD
ANTIGUO ORIENTE
MESOPOTAMIA
BABILONIA
ASIRIA
ESCRITURAS ANTIGUAS
Acceso en línea:https://repositorio.uca.edu.ar/handle/123456789/6724
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Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA) de Universidad Católica Argentina
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Inglés
topic PODER
SOCIEDAD
ANTIGUO ORIENTE
MESOPOTAMIA
BABILONIA
ASIRIA
ESCRITURAS ANTIGUAS
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SOCIEDAD
ANTIGUO ORIENTE
MESOPOTAMIA
BABILONIA
ASIRIA
ESCRITURAS ANTIGUAS
Lenzi, Alan
Advertising secrecy, creating power in ancient Mesopotamia : how scholars used secrecy in scribal education to bolster and perpetuate their social prestige and power
topic_facet PODER
SOCIEDAD
ANTIGUO ORIENTE
MESOPOTAMIA
BABILONIA
ASIRIA
ESCRITURAS ANTIGUAS
description Abstract: This study investigates how ancient scholars from mid-first millennium Babylonia and Assyria advertised their possession of secret knowledge to scribal students in order to bolster and perpetuate scholarly social prestige and power in society. After a brief theoretical orientation to issues surrounding the study of secrecy and a sketch of the two-tier scribal educational model developed by Petra Gesche, the study presents evidence for advertising scholarly secrets from the circumstances surrounding the storage and handling of tablets bearing the Geheimwissen colophon and from two literary texts copied by first-tier scribes, “In Praise of the Scribal Art” and “The Standard Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic.”
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title Advertising secrecy, creating power in ancient Mesopotamia : how scholars used secrecy in scribal education to bolster and perpetuate their social prestige and power
title_short Advertising secrecy, creating power in ancient Mesopotamia : how scholars used secrecy in scribal education to bolster and perpetuate their social prestige and power
title_full Advertising secrecy, creating power in ancient Mesopotamia : how scholars used secrecy in scribal education to bolster and perpetuate their social prestige and power
title_fullStr Advertising secrecy, creating power in ancient Mesopotamia : how scholars used secrecy in scribal education to bolster and perpetuate their social prestige and power
title_full_unstemmed Advertising secrecy, creating power in ancient Mesopotamia : how scholars used secrecy in scribal education to bolster and perpetuate their social prestige and power
title_sort advertising secrecy, creating power in ancient mesopotamia : how scholars used secrecy in scribal education to bolster and perpetuate their social prestige and power
publisher Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Políticas y de la Comunicación. Departamento de Historia. Centro de Estudios de Historia del Antiguo Oriente
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