This is ultimately unhelpful, but the data needed for this request has been compiled by CDLI (cdli.earth/collections); I just don't know if anyone has used it to make this map.

"This year’s theme examines the interplay between human society and the divine, emphasizing the role of human agents in mapping their lived social experience onto the divine cosmos, and their expression of the divine within their worlds."

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Building stronger students, one meme at a time

Sigh... *updates cover letter*

Try this, it's the link provided on the podcast's website: overcast.fm/itunes153442...

We've been prepped to see Peter give up on John over the course of several seasons, and the fact that we see him push now more than ever was too much for my little heart

I'm reminded of US education experiments with computers in the early 60s, sponsored by companies like IBM. These company-led initiatives were rarely about the student and more to do with selling to a nascent sector, with final reports showing the impact on a student's education was negligible.

Readers of history have enjoyed the fruits of this labor through microhistories. The stories we love about the past, the people, diet, and beliefs, came out of "onionology".

For folks who adore characters like Ea-nasir or histories of ancient cuisine, give thanks to Gelb for studying some onions!

In his own way, this method of studying the past through "lowly topics" was counter-cultural; it stood in the face of history as being solely about kings or politics.

This method also had the opportunity to bring out the daily lives of people in ways previously ignored by scholarship.

This approach relies on prosopography, archival studies, and intensive, wide reading of material from bureaucratic receipts and school texts to prayers, promulgations, and statues.

It is slow, hard work that he believed computers could help this process immensely. It has!

What does that mean? Gelb considered approaches to ancient society as a tripartite venture: 1) data collection, 2) primary interpretation, and 3) Secondary interpretation.

Careful research is about learning about things (1), their immediate context (2), and their place in a wider discourse (3).