Review of Alphabet Scribes in the Land of Cuneiform: Sēpiru Professionals in Mesopotamia in the Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid Periods. By Yigal Bloch [Book Review]

Journal of the American Oriental Society 142 (4):983-985 (2022)
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Alphabet Scribes in the Land of Cuneiform: Sēpiru Professionals in Mesopotamia in the Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid Periods. By Yigal Bloch. Gorgias Studies in the Ancient Near East, vol. 11. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2018. Pp. xv + 497. $99.

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