| The project aims to produce insights into the reception of the Babylonian scribal culture in Syria and Anatolia in the Late Bronze Age (1500 1200 B.C.), as well as into the mechanisms that allowed the spreading of the Babylonian scribal culture, and the cognitive processes involved. The project staff comprises Assyriologists as well as specialists in oral and literary traditions and the transfer of knowledge. The project aim is attained through a two-pronged approach: a) reconstructing the school curriculum in Syria and Anatolia, through the analysis of text finds b) testing the results of that analysis against modern theoretical models, especially concerning the opposition between oral and scribal culture. |
