Moudhy Alrashid
Postdoc @WolfsonCollege, feminist, Assyriologist, historian of science, Saudi, deadlift & dead language enthusiast. She/her. Opinions mine. RT≠endorsement
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“@Marifn12 There were networks of scholars, but they also got wind of advice to the king from their colleagues via the king himself who sometimes quoted advice in letters to scholars. A brilliant book on these networks is by @Eleanor_Robson Ancient Knowledge Networks https://t.co/yKK0ejaCGm” (from X)
Eleanor Robson(you?)
With Ancient Knowledge Networks, Eleanor Robson investigates how networks of knowledge enabled cuneiform intellectual culture to adapt and endure over the course of five world empires until its eventual demise in the mid-first century BC. Addressing the relationships between political power, family ties, religious commitments, and scholarship in the ancient Middle East, Robson focuses on two regions where cuneiform script was the predominant writing medium: Assyria, north of modern-day Syria and Iraq, and Babylonia, south of modern-day Baghdad. In doing so, she also studies Assyriological and historical method, both now and over the past two centuries, asking how the field has shaped and been shaped by the academic concerns and fashions of the day.