I. Materiality and literacies 1. Tablets as artefacts, scribes as artisans, Jonathan Taylor 2. Accounting in proto-cuneiform, Robert K. Englund 3. Numeracy and metrology, Gregory Chambon 4. Levels of literacy, Niek Veldhuis 5. Literacy and gender, Brigitte Lion II.

Individuals and communities 6. The person in Mesopotamian thought, Benjamin R. Foster 7. The scribe of the Flood Story and his circle, Frans van Koppen 8. Feasts for the living, the dead, and the gods, Hagan Brunke 9. Cuneiform writing in Neo-Babylonian temple communities, Michael Jursa 10. Freedom in ancient Near Eastern societies, Eva von Dassow III. Experts and novices 11.

Teacher-student relationships: two case studies, Yoram Cohen & Sivan Kedar 12. Patron and client: Zimri-Lim and Asqudum the diviner, Dominique Charpin 13. Learned, rich, famous and unhappy: Ur-Utu of Sippar, Michel Tanret 14. Music, the work of professionals, Nele Ziegler 15. The education of Neo-Assyrian princes, Silvie Zamazalova IV. Decisions 16. Judicial decision-making: judges and arbitrators, Sophie Demare-Lafont 17. Royal decision-making: kings, magnates and scholars, Karen Radner 18.

Assyria at war: strategy and conduct, Andreas Fuchs 19. Manipulating the gods: lamenting in context, Anne Lohnert 20. Magic rituals: conceptualisation and performance, Daniel Schwemer V. Interpretations 21. Sheep and sky: systems of divinatory interpretation, Ulla Susanne Koch 22. Making sense of time: observational and theoretical calendars, John M. Steele 23. Letters as correspondence, letters as literature, Fabienne Huber Vulliet 24.

Keeping company with men of learning: the king as scholar, Eckart Frahm 25. From street altar to palace: reading the built environment of urban Babylonia, Heather D. Baker VI. Making knowledge 26. The production and dissemination of scholarly knowledge, Eleanor Robson 27. Tablets of schools and scholars: a portrait of the Old Babylonian corpus, Steve Tinney 28. Adapting to new contexts: cuneiform in Anatolia, Mark Weeden 29. Observing and describing the world through divination and astronomy, Francesca Rochberg 30.

Berossos between tradition and innovation, Geert De Breucker VII. Shaping tradition 31. Agriculture as civilization: sages, farmers, and barbarians, Frans Wiggermann 32. Sourcing, organising, and administering medicinal ingredients, Barbara Bock 33. Changing images of kingship in Sumerian literature, Nicole Brisch 34. The pious king: royal patronage of temples, Caroline Waerzeggers 35. Cuneiform culture's last guardians: the old urban notability of Hellenistic Uruk, Philippe Clancier.