Adventure of Great Dimension: The Launching of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 92, Part 3)

by Erica Reiner

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871699230
• ISBN13: 9780871699237
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
• Length: 140 Pages