ISBN10: 9004202307, ISBN13: 9789004202306, [publisher: Brill, Leiden, Boston] Hardcover First Edition XXVI + 222 pages, hardcover, fine. - - Contents/Chapters: List of Illustrations, Acknowledgments, Foreword, Introduction. - - 1.) MUL.APIN: The Text. - The Form. - Date of Composition - MUL.APIN and the scribal tradition. - Sequence in MUL.APIN. - Mesopotamians and Moderns. - Anyalitic Considerations: Why We Chose MUL.APIN. - Conclusion. - - 2.) Writing and Conceptual Change: The Cuneiform Scribal Tradition. - Writing, Cognition and Culture. - Writing and Conceptual Change. - A Model of Writing and Conceptual Change. - Conclusion: Summary of Pre-Analytic Assumptions. - - 3.) Terms of Analysis: The Language of Space and Time. - Deixis, Indecical Expressions and Context. - Categories and Concepts. - Naming. - Definition. - Assumptions and Axioms. - Rhetorical Concerns. - - 4.) Text and Analysis: A Note on the Form of the Akkadian Text of MUL.APIN: Section a, MUL.APIN I i 1.ii 35 (Astronomical Content, Textual Form, Translated Text, Analysis, Categories). - Sections b-d, MUL.APIN I ii 36 > I iii 12. - Intermediate Section, MUL.APIN I iii 49-50. - Section e, MUL.APIN I iv 1-30. - Section f, MUL.APIN I iv 31 > II i 8. - Section g, MUL.APIN II i 9-24. - Sections h and i, MUL.APIN II i 25-71 plus Gap A 1-7 from Section j. - Subsections j-2 and j-3, MUL.APIN II Gap A8-II ii 20. - Section k, MUL.APIN II ii 21-42. - Section L, MUL.APIN II ii 43 > II iii 15. - Section ...
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