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How Long Does it Take to Read Elementary Education in Early Second Millennium BCE Babylonia?

It takes the average reader 10 hours and 51 minutes to read Elementary Education in Early Second Millennium BCE Babylonia by Alhena Gadotti

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Description

In this volume, Alhena Gadotti and Alexandra Kleinerman investigate how Akkadian speakers learned Sumerian during the Old Babylonian period in areas outside major cities. Despite the fact that it was a dead language at the time, Sumerian was considered a crucial part of scribal training due to its cultural importance. This book provides transliterations and translations of 715 cuneiform scribal school exercise texts from the Jonathan and Jeanette Rosen Ancient Near Eastern Studies Collection at Cornell University. These tablets, consisting mainly of lexical texts, illustrate the process of elementary foreign-language training at scribal schools during the Old Babylonian period. Although the tablets are all without provenance, discrepancies between these texts and those from other sites, such as Nippur and Ur, strongly suggest that the texts published here do not come from a previously studied location. Comparing these tablets with previously published documents, Gadotti and Kleinerman argue that elementary education in Mesopotamia was relatively standardized and that knowledge of cuneiform writing was more widespread than previously assumed. By refining our understanding of education in southern Mesopotamia, this volume elucidates more fully the pedagogical underpinnings of the world’s first curriculum devised to teach a dead language. As a text edition, it will make these important documents accessible to Assyriologists and Sumerologists for future study.

How long is Elementary Education in Early Second Millennium BCE Babylonia?

Elementary Education in Early Second Millennium BCE Babylonia by Alhena Gadotti is 636 pages long, and a total of 162,816 words.

This makes it 215% the length of the average book. It also has 199% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Elementary Education in Early Second Millennium BCE Babylonia Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 14 hours and 49 minutes to read Elementary Education in Early Second Millennium BCE Babylonia aloud.

What Reading Level is Elementary Education in Early Second Millennium BCE Babylonia?

Elementary Education in Early Second Millennium BCE Babylonia is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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