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A Short History of Babylon

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Much of our perception of Babylon in the West is filtered through the poignant echoes of loss and longing that resonate in the Hebrew Bible. The lamenting exiles of Judah craved a return to their lost homeland after the sack of Jerusalem in 587 BC and their forcible removal by Nebuchadnezzar to the alien floodlands of the Euphrates. But to see Babylon only as an adjunct to Old Testament history is misleading. A Short History of Babylon explores the ever-changing city that shaped world history for two millennia.

Author: Radner Karen
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY
Pages: 272
ISBN: 9781838601706
Cover: Paperback
Edition Number: 1
Release Year: 2020

Timeline

List of figure captions

Introduction

Ch.1 Babylon in time and space

Ch.2 Babylon's loss and rediscovery

Ch.3 Capital: Hammurabi's Babylon

Ch.4. Font of knowledge: Burnaburiaš's Babylon

Ch.5 Linking Heaven and Earth: Marduk's Babylon

Ch.6 Negotiating Power: Babylon and the Assyrians

Ch.7 Megacity: Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon

Ch.8 Clipped Wings: Babylon and the Persians

Ch.9 Slow Fade: Babylon after Alexander the Great

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Karen Radner is an Austrian Assyriologist, the Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Ancient History at the University of Munich.

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