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Jay Crisostomo's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months ago
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Jay Crisostomo deposited Language, Translation, and Commentary in Cuneiform Scribal Practice in the group
Assyriologists on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoCuneiform scholarly practices systematized an exploration of mean- ing potential. In cuneiform scholarship, knowledge making emerged from multiple scribal practices, most notably list-making, analogical reasoning, and translation. The present paper demonstrates how multilingualism stands at the core of cuneiform scholarly inquiry, enabling…[Read more]
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Jay Crisostomo deposited Language, Translation, and Commentary in Cuneiform Scribal Practice in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoCuneiform scholarly practices systematized an exploration of mean- ing potential. In cuneiform scholarship, knowledge making emerged from multiple scribal practices, most notably list-making, analogical reasoning, and translation. The present paper demonstrates how multilingualism stands at the core of cuneiform scholarly inquiry, enabling…[Read more]
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Jay Crisostomo deposited Language, Translation, and Commentary in Cuneiform Scribal Practice on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months ago
Cuneiform scholarly practices systematized an exploration of mean- ing potential. In cuneiform scholarship, knowledge making emerged from multiple scribal practices, most notably list-making, analogical reasoning, and translation. The present paper demonstrates how multilingualism stands at the core of cuneiform scholarly inquiry, enabling…[Read more]
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A discussion of cuneiform scholarly divination in bilingual Sumerian–Akkadian or monolingual Sumerian.
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Jay Crisostomo deposited “The Scaffolding of Our Thoughts”: Essays on Assyriology and the History of Science in Honor of Francesca Rochberg on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months ago
Francesca Rochberg has for more than thirty-five years been a leading figure in the study of ancient science. “The Scaffolding of Our Thoughts” honors this luminary with twenty essays, each reflecting on aspects of her work.
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Jay Crisostomo deposited Multilingualism and Formulations of Scholarship: The Rosen Vocabulary in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThe Rosen Vocabulary is an Old Babylonian bilingual text. Through an edition of this text, I argue that the ad-hoc mixed vocabularies known from the Old Babylonian period feature citations or allusions to literary compositions as well as subsequent analogous expressions, both in Sumerian and in Akkadian.
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Jay Crisostomo deposited Writing Sumerian, Creating Texts: Reflections on Text-building Practices in Old Babylonian Schools in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoSumerian lexical and literary compositions both emerged from the same social sphere, namely scribal education. The complexities of inter-compositional dependence in these two corpora have not been thoroughly explored, particularly as relevant to questions of text-building during the Old Babylonian period (c. 1800–1600 bce). Copying practices e…[Read more]
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Jay Crisostomo deposited The Sumerian Discourse Markers u4-ba and u4-bi-a in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoIn Old Babylonian Sumerian literature, the temporal phrases u₄-ba and u₄-bi-a typically occur in complementary distribution. Previous analyses have focused on morphological disparity to differentiate the two. The present paper considers pragmatic functions within a larger discourse structure, analyzing them as discourse markers, specifically tem…[Read more]
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Jay Crisostomo deposited Language, Writing, and Ideologies in Contact: Sumerian and Akkadian in the Early Second Millennium BCE in the group
Linguistics on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoSumerian and Akkadian language contact in the early part of the second millennium BCE. The article discusses prevalent language ideologies based on native metalinguistic discourse in comparison with language use in practice with the phrase mu—pad₃ = nīš—itma ‘(s)he swore an oath’ as a case study.
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Jay Crisostomo deposited Language, Writing, and Ideologies in Contact: Sumerian and Akkadian in the Early Second Millennium BCE in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoSumerian and Akkadian language contact in the early part of the second millennium BCE. The article discusses prevalent language ideologies based on native metalinguistic discourse in comparison with language use in practice with the phrase mu—pad₃ = nīš—itma ‘(s)he swore an oath’ as a case study.
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Jay Crisostomo deposited Multilingualism and Formulations of Scholarship: The Rosen Vocabulary on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months ago
The Rosen Vocabulary is an Old Babylonian bilingual text. Through an edition of this text, I argue that the ad-hoc mixed vocabularies known from the Old Babylonian period feature citations or allusions to literary compositions as well as subsequent analogous expressions, both in Sumerian and in Akkadian.
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Jay Crisostomo deposited Writing Sumerian, Creating Texts: Reflections on Text-building Practices in Old Babylonian Schools on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months ago
Sumerian lexical and literary compositions both emerged from the same social sphere, namely scribal education. The complexities of inter-compositional dependence in these two corpora have not been thoroughly explored, particularly as relevant to questions of text-building during the Old Babylonian period (c. 1800–1600 bce). Copying practices e…[Read more]
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Jay Crisostomo deposited The Sumerian Discourse Markers u4-ba and u4-bi-a on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months ago
In Old Babylonian Sumerian literature, the temporal phrases u₄-ba and u₄-bi-a typically occur in complementary distribution. Previous analyses have focused on morphological disparity to differentiate the two. The present paper considers pragmatic functions within a larger discourse structure, analyzing them as discourse markers, specifically tem…[Read more]
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Jay Crisostomo deposited Language, Writing, and Ideologies in Contact: Sumerian and Akkadian in the Early Second Millennium BCE on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months ago
Sumerian and Akkadian language contact in the early part of the second millennium BCE. The article discusses prevalent language ideologies based on native metalinguistic discourse in comparison with language use in practice with the phrase mu—pad₃ = nīš—itma ‘(s)he swore an oath’ as a case study.
