@inbook{5d5c68266a7a4f01b941605536e52c30,
title = "The origins of scholastic commentary in Mesopotamia: second-order schemata in the Early Dynastic exegetical imagination",
abstract = "This paper investigates Early Dynastic scholasticism in Mesopotamia, particularly as represented in several Fara/Shuruppak precursors to the well-known Zami Hymns from Abu Salabikh. These texts are the earliest commentaries in the history of cuneiform, but they are also important in that they document a chain of self-conscious acts of reflection on philological method and exegetical technique. These schemata were encoded in the names of lesser divinities and culminate in a catalogue raisonn{\'e} of scholastic practices in the Sumerian mythological text known as Enki and Ninhursag.",
author = "Justin Johnson",
year = "2014",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3935012119",
series = "Berliner Beitrage zum Vorderen Orient",
publisher = "PeWe-Verlag",
pages = "11--55",
editor = "Shai Gordin",
booktitle = "Visualizing Knowledge and Creating Meaning in Ancient Writing Systems",
address = "Germany",
}