Translation as Scholarship: Language, Writing, and Bilingual Education in Ancien

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For ancient cuneiform scribes, translation was a means of demonstrating their aptitude with the main focus of their discipline, the cuneiform writing system, resulting in translation practices that are foreign to typical western concepts of translat

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In the first half of the 2d millennium BCE, translation occasionally depicted semantically incongruous correspondences. Such cases reflect ancient scribes substantiating their virtuosity with cuneiform writing by capitalizing on phonologic, graphemic, semantic, and other resemblances in the interlingual space. These scholar–scribes employed an essential scribal practice, analogical hermeneutics, an interpretative activity grounded in analogical reasoning and empowered by the potentiality of the cuneiform script. Scribal education systematized such practices, allowing scribes to utilize these habits in copying compositions and creating translations. In scribal education, analogical hermeneutics is exemplified in the word list "Izi", both in its structure and in its occasional bilingualism. By examining "Izi" as a product of the social field of scribal education, this book argues that scribes used analogical hermeneutics to cultivate their craft and establish themselves as knowledgeable scribes. Within a linguistic epistemology of cuneiform scribal culture, translation is a tool in the hands of a knowledgeable scholar.

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C. Jay Crisostomo, University of Michigan, MI, U.S.A.

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"[...] any Assyriologist dealing with issues of scribal education, translation theory, or lexical lists should consult Translation as Scholarship. Scholars dealings with Aramaic-Akkadian bilingual inscriptions, along with trilingual inscriptions, should also consult this volume. It establishes a foundation for OB scribal habitus at Nippur and its subsequent reception over two millennia. Perhaps future scholars will continue in Crisostomo's path, exploring how analogical hermeneutics changed over two millennia of Babylonian and Assyrian scholarship."William Brown in: The Biblical Review (18.02.2019), "This book is an outstanding achievement of creative, well-informed, and deeply reflective scholarship, a truly impressive achievement, as well as very interesting reading." Benjamin R. Foster in: Keilschriftforschung, OLZ 115-1 (2020), 34-36

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"[...] any Assyriologist dealing with issues of scribal education, translation theory, or lexical lists should consult Translation as Scholarship. Scholars dealings with Aramaic-Akkadian bilingual inscriptions, along with trilingual inscriptions, should also consult this volume. It establishes a foundation for OB scribal habitus at Nippur and its subsequent reception over two millennia. Perhaps future scholars will continue in Crisostomo's path, exploring how analogical hermeneutics changed over two millennia of Babylonian and Assyrian scholarship."William Brown in: The Biblical Review (18.02.2019),

Details ISBN1501516663 Author Jay Crisostomo Pages 521 Series Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (SANER) Year 2019 ISBN-10 1501516663 ISBN-13 9781501516665 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2019-01-14 Subtitle Language, Writing, and Bilingual Education in Ancient Babylonia DEWEY 935.5 Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Publisher De Gruyter Imprint De Gruyter Short Title Translation As Scholarship Language English Series Number 22 AU Release Date 2019-01-14 NZ Release Date 2019-01-14 US Release Date 2019-01-14 UK Release Date 2019-01-14 Illustrations 1 Tables, black and white; 7 Illustrations, black and white; 5 Illustrations, color Alternative 9781501509810 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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