Adventure of Great Dimension

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Adventure of Great Dimension: The Launching of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary (Transaction 92-3)

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By Erica Reiner
Year: 2002
Pages: 140
Binding Paperback
ISBN 0871699230

Product Code: 0871699230

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Transaction 92 No. 3
Babylonian & Assyrian early civilizations left a vast corpus of records & scribes preserved through the medium of cuneiform writing on clay tablets. Reiner looks back on the last half-century & more of work on the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary (CAD) project at the Oriental Inst. of Chicago, focusing on the reformulation of the task that took place during her years of participation in the 1950s & 1960s. This included intellectual clashes between scholars Thorkild Jacobsen & Leo Oppenheim. Benno Landsberger supported Oppenheim & helped to move the project forward. Oriental Inst. dir. Robert McC. Adams concurs in the course that has made the CAD one of the great humanistic achievements of our time.

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