Teaching with a Dose of Humor in the Mesopotamian Unica

Sara J. Milstein

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13 Teaching with a Dose of Humor in the Mesopotamian Unica

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Pages:: 253â268

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004511538_014

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Excavations from Mesopotamia have yielded hundreds of school-texts of different types. The number of copies of any given school-text range; some are only attested in ten copies or so, while others, particularly those integral to the curriculum, number as many as two hundred. A small subset of these pedagogical texts, however, are unica, or texts that are attested in only a single copy. Scholars posit that some of these texts were written by teachers or perhaps advanced students. Intriguingly, two of these texts, âWhy Do You Curse Me?â and a fictional court case, point to the creation of humorous, pedagogical pieces from scratch by teachers for their students. These cases in turn point to a different way of conceptualizing the relationship between âauthorâ and âaudienceâ in Mesopotamia.

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âA Community of Peoplesâ

Studies on Society and Politics in the Bible and Ancient Near East in Honor of Daniel E. Fleming

Series:Â Harvard Semitic Studies, Volume: 69

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Print Publication Date:: 28 Apr 2022

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