Canaanite Scribal Creativity and the Making of Cuneiform Culture in the Amarna Age
Canaanite Scribal Creativity and the Making of Cuneiform Culture in the Amarna Age offer a nuanced exploration of the scribal practices behind the Canaanite Amarna Letters and wider scribal culture of the Levant during the Late Bronze Age (1550–1200 BCE). The book features a summary of the historica...
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| description | Canaanite Scribal Creativity and the Making of Cuneiform Culture in the Amarna Age offer a nuanced exploration of the scribal practices behind the Canaanite Amarna Letters and wider scribal culture of the Levant during the Late Bronze Age (1550–1200 BCE). The book features a summary of the historical and scribal contexts of the Canaanite Amarna Tablets—a corpus of diplomatic letters between Canaanite and Egyptian rulers of the later 18th Dynasty—and provides a synthesis of research on cuneiform scribalism in the Late Bronze Age. It also offers a methodology for the multimodal analysis of Canaanite cuneiform tablets, which can be applied to other ancient corpora. Specifically, the proposed “code-alternation” approach offers a more accurate description of the range of linguistic, orthographic, and marking systems in the Canaanite Amarna Letters. The book sheds light upon the use of the cuneiform script and written Akkadian in diplomatic communications in the Ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean, broadening our understanding of this period which was pivotal to the development of writing, scribal culture, and West Semitic literary traditions. Canaanite Scribal Creativity and the Making of Cuneiform Culture in the Amarna Age is suitable for scholars of the Late Bronze Age southern Levant and those interested in literacies and scribal practices of the Ancient Near East. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1767132026-06-04T07:49:07Z Canaanite Scribal Creativity and the Making of Cuneiform Culture in the Amarna Age Mandell, Alice Ancient literacy studies Multimodal text analysis Orthographic systems Akkadian language research West Semitic linguistics Register variation Scribal practice in Late Bronze Age Levant thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRS Ancient religions and Mythologies thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology::NKD Archaeology by period / region thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRM Christianity thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRV Aspects of religion::QRVC Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHC Ancient history thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRA Religion: general thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRR Other religions and spiritual beliefs::QRRT Indigenous, ethnic and folk religions and spiritual beliefs::QRRT1 Indigenous religions, spiritual beliefs and mythologies of the Americas thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1F Asia::1FB Middle East thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1Q Other geographical groupings: Oceans and seas, historical, political etc::1QB Historical states, empires, territories and regions::1QBA Ancient World::1QBAE Ancient Egypt Canaanite Scribal Creativity and the Making of Cuneiform Culture in the Amarna Age offer a nuanced exploration of the scribal practices behind the Canaanite Amarna Letters and wider scribal culture of the Levant during the Late Bronze Age (1550–1200 BCE). The book features a summary of the historical and scribal contexts of the Canaanite Amarna Tablets—a corpus of diplomatic letters between Canaanite and Egyptian rulers of the later 18th Dynasty—and provides a synthesis of research on cuneiform scribalism in the Late Bronze Age. It also offers a methodology for the multimodal analysis of Canaanite cuneiform tablets, which can be applied to other ancient corpora. Specifically, the proposed “code-alternation” approach offers a more accurate description of the range of linguistic, orthographic, and marking systems in the Canaanite Amarna Letters. The book sheds light upon the use of the cuneiform script and written Akkadian in diplomatic communications in the Ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean, broadening our understanding of this period which was pivotal to the development of writing, scribal culture, and West Semitic literary traditions. Canaanite Scribal Creativity and the Making of Cuneiform Culture in the Amarna Age is suitable for scholars of the Late Bronze Age southern Levant and those interested in literacies and scribal practices of the Ancient Near East. 2026-05-20T08:52:30Z 2026-05-20T08:52:30Z 2026-05-19T12:44:24Z 2026 book ONIX_20260519T105720_9781315385693_12 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/113168 9781315385693 9781315385686 9781315385709 9781315385679 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/176713 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/113168/1/9781315385693.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/113168/1/9781315385693.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781315385709 10.4324/9781315385709 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 JH Libraries Open Monograph Initiative (JHLOMI) 59a0c5b0-f531-42af-970d-49f53f32496d 9781315385693 9781315385686 9781315385709 9781315385679 Routledge 882 Oxford [...] open access |
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