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Scholars, Priests, and Temples: Babylonian and Egyptian Science in Context. Introduction

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Abstract

This article introduces a double issue comprising 11 papers about Babylonian and Egyptian priests and scholarship between ca. 600 bce and 200 ce. They constitute the proceedings of the workshop “Scholars, Priests, and Temples: Babylonian and Egyptian Science in Context”, which was held at the Humboldt University Berlin, 12–14 May 2016, with support of the Excellence Cluster TOPOI. The workshop brought together Assyriologists and Egyptologists with expertise in Babylonian and Egyptian scholarship, priesthoods and temple institutions. All contributions have been revised and updated since then. The present contribution offers a brief introduction on previous research, cross-cultural interactions, economic aspects, royal patronage, and internal developments of Babylonian and Egyptian temple scholarship, followed by short summaries of the papers.


Corresponding author: Mathieu Ossendrijver, Einstein Center Chronoi, Berlin, Germany, E-mail:

Funding source: DFG

Award Identifier / Grant number: EXC 264

Acknowledgements

The workshop took place in the framework of the Excellence Cluster TOPOI, “The Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Ancient Cultures” (DFG grant EXC 264, TOPOI 2, 2012–2018). My special thanks go to Ruti Ungar (TOPOI) and Alex Schwinger (Humboldt University Berlin and Technical University Berlin) for their collaboration in organizing the workshop, and to Birgit Nennstiel and Tanja Kuppel (TOPOI) for designing the conference poster and the website (http://www.topoi.org/event/32722/). The Einstein Center Chronoi (Berlin) and the DFG-Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe 2615 “Rethinking Oriental Despotism” (Free University Berlin) are acknowledged for providing visiting scholarships (2019/20) during which I was able to finalize the proceedings. I thank the contributors for their input to the introduction and retain responsibility for any remaining errors.

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