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Adventure of Great Dimension: The Launching of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 92, Part 3)

Adventure of Great Dimension: The Launching of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 92, Part 3)

Reiner, Erica

Hardcover

Series: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Book 649

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ISBN10: 0871699230
ISBN13: 9780871699237
Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
Published: Jan 1 2002
Pages: 140
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.44 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Babylonian & Assyrian early civilizations left a vast corpus of records & scribes preserved through the medium of cuneiform writing on clay tablets. Reiner looks back on the last half-century & more of work on the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary (CAD) project at the Oriental Inst. of Chicago, focusing on the reformulation of the task that took place during her years of participation in the 1950s & 1960s. This included intellectual clashes between scholars Thorkild Jacobsen & Leo Oppenheim. Benno Landsberger supported Oppenheim & helped to move the project forward. Oriental Inst. dir. Robert McC. Adams concurs in the course that has made the CAD one of the great humanistic achievements of our time.

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