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A Love Letter from Uruk: How to become a Scribe in Mesopotamia
Paperback
HumorScience FictionHistorical Fiction
Publisher Price: $18.99
ISBN13: 9789083696300
Publisher: Tamarind Tree Distribution
Published: Jun 7 2026
Pages: 348
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.78 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
It takes a village to raise a child ... and a city (thé city?) to raise a scribe?
There's a problem. There's this kid, and he has to get into school. But it's 2000BC and the child belongs to some peasants. Who's ever heard of peasants sending a child to school? - 'to become a scribe, your father must be a scribe'. Gulp!
Apart from the very appealing story, this is historical literature on steroids: 2000BC is really a long time ago. Read the texts - songs, prayers, stories ... Follow the story of a young scribe's education.
This immaculately-structured collision with our most ancient literatures, written with warmth and humor, will appeal to any lover of books, and ancient history, our earliest literature, and the beginnings of the Old Testament.
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