Lecture outlines with recommended readings

These lecture outlines are based on 50-minute undergraduate lectures that have been given several times to undergraduates in History of Science, and in Ancient Near Eastern Studies. Ideally they should be well illustrated with images and textual examples from a variety of Neo-Assyrian historical studies, as well as the letters, queries, and reports cited here.

  1. Assyrian scholarship: science or superstition?
  2. Celestial divination and the Substitute King Ritual
  3. Classifications of knowledge, theory and practice
  4. Medicine, healing, and the royal body
  5. The spaces and places of Assyrian scholarship
  6. Extispicy, reliability and confirmation
  7. Patronage, petition, and competition
  8. Knowledge and power, kingship and scholarship
 
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