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Messaging and the Gods in Mesopotamia
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This chapter addresses worshippers’ messages to Mesopotamian gods and explores the duality of this kind of communication. Richardson classifies “genres” of communication according to the roles assigned to worshippers and gods and according to the places of these genres in an elaborate communications infrastructure of formulae, personnel, and locales. Richardson also discusses the problem of failure of communication, and describes the protocols with which to account for failures. He identifies a characteristic Mesopotamian style for religious communications: it is at once elaborate and pessimistic, and so it contrasts with Mesopotamian commercial letters, which are straightforward, if not optimistic.
Title: Messaging and the Gods in Mesopotamia
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This chapter addresses worshippers’ messages to Mesopotamian gods and explores the duality of this kind of communication.
Richardson classifies “genres” of communication according to the roles assigned to worshippers and gods and according to the places of these genres in an elaborate communications infrastructure of formulae, personnel, and locales.
Richardson also discusses the problem of failure of communication, and describes the protocols with which to account for failures.
He identifies a characteristic Mesopotamian style for religious communications: it is at once elaborate and pessimistic, and so it contrasts with Mesopotamian commercial letters, which are straightforward, if not optimistic.
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