Analysing Literary Sumerian - Corpus-based Approaches - Jarle Ebeling
Gendered literacy and numeracy in the Sumerian literary corpus
Analysing Literary Sumerian - Corpus-based Approaches - Jarle Ebeling
Jarle Ebeling [+]
University of Oxford
Jarle Ebeling is a researcher at the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, specializing in corpus linguistics.
Description
This chapter examines images of literacy and numeracy in curricular literary Sumerian (scholastic genres) to reveal how literary characters were portrayed to trainee scribes and thus how those trainees might have constructed the ideals and mores of their profession.