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Front cover -- Frontispiece -- Title page -- Contents -- Foreword, by Theo van den Hout -- Foreword, by Eleanor Robson -- Preface, by Marc Maillot -- Acknowledgments, by Susanne Paulus -- List of Contributors -- Part I: Essays -- 1. Back to School in Babylonia: The Aims of Babylonian Education, by Susanne Paulus -- 2. Old Babylonian Nippur in Its Environmental and Historical Settings, by Hervé Reculeau -- 3. The Archaeology of Nippur's House F and Its Neighborhood, by Augusta McMahon -- 4. Living the Edubbaʾa: School as Sensory Experience and Social Identity, by Madeline Ouimet -- 5. Economic Life in the Scribal Quarter of Nippur, by Anne Goddeeris -- 6. Literacy in the Old Babylonian Period, by Dominique Charpin -- 7. Reconstructing the Elementary Nippur Curriculum, by Niek Veldhuis -- 8. Learning the Basics: The First Steps at School, by Klaus Wagensonner -- 9. Complex Lists: Between Didactics and Erudition, by Marta Díaz Herrera -- 10. Bilingualism and Akkadian, by Jay Crisostomo -- 11. Sumerian Grammar for Babylonians, by Colton G. Siegmund -- 12. Sumerian Proverbs, by William A. Younger -- 13. What Did They Learn about Mathematics? by Barbora Wichterlová -- 14. Practicing Law, by Susanne Paulus -- 15. The Decad and Scribal Errors, by Paul Delnero -- 16. Adventures in a Legendary Past: Tales of Long-Ago Kings as Cultural Education, by Jane Gordon -- 17. Learning History, by Piotr Michalowski -- 18. What Did They Learn about Myths and Religion? by Christopher Metcalf -- 19. Learning Rhetoric through Sumerian Disputations, by Catherine Mittermayer -- 20. What Did They Learn about Women? by Jana Matuszak -- Part II: Catalog -- 21. Discovering a School in Nippur, by Madeline Ouimet and Susanne Paulus, with Laura D'Alessandro and Alison Whyte.