Teaching in Old Babylonian Nippur, Learning in Old Assyrian Aššur?

Type:

Book Chapter

Author:

Wiebke Beyer

Published:

2021

Archaeologists have excavated thousands of clay tablets containing school texts from Old Babylonian Nippur, which has helped researchers to reconstruct the curriculum of scribal students and given them insights into educational practices in the first half of the second millennium. Even though literary texts describe particular school buildings and teachers, professional scribes and scholars presumably taught the art of writing in their own homes during the Old Babylonian period, mainly to their own children and other willing apprentices. Almost nothing is known about this from the Old Assyrian period at the beginning of the second millennium BC, even though literacy was presumably widespread by then. In this paper, a new approach to the subject is introduced, which is based on palaeographic studies and can reveal new insights about the Assyrians' educational practices.

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