The Babylonian World

The Babylonian World presents an extensive, up-to-date and lavishly illustrated history of the ancient state Babylonia and its 'holy city', Babylon. Historicized by the New Testament as a centre of decadence and corruption, Babylon and its surrounding region was in fact a rich and complex civilization, responsible for the invention of the dictionary and laying the foundations of modern science. This book explores all key aspects of the development of this ancient culture, including the ecology of the region and its famously productive agriculture, its political and economic standing, its religious practices, and the achievements of its intelligentsia. Comprehensive and accessible, this book will be an indispensable resource for anyone studying the period.

Introduction
Land and Land Use
Babylonian Countrysides
Land and Land Use: The Middle Euphrates Valley
Agricultural Techniques
Urban Form in the First Millennium
Material Culture
Architecture in the Old Babylonian Period
Babylonian Seals
Babylonian Sources of Exotic Raw Materials
Cloth in the Babylonian World
The Babylonian Visual Image
Food and Drink in Babylonia
Economic Life
Economy of Ancient Mesopotamia: A General Outline
The Old Babylonian Economy
Aspects of Society and Economy in the later Old Babylonian Period
The Babylonian Economy in the First Millennium BC
The Egibi Family
Society and Politics

Palace and the Temple in Babylonia
Power, Economy and Social Organization in Babylonia
Arameans and Chaldeans: Environment and Society
Women and Gender in Babylonia
Religion
The Role and Function of Goddesses in Mesopotamia
Inanna and Ishtar in the Babylonian World
The Babylonian god Marduk
Divination Culture and Handling of the Future
Witchcraft Literature in Mesopotamia
Intellectual Life: Cuneiform Writing and Learning
Incantations within Akkadian Medical Texts
Writing, Sending, and Reading Letters in the Amorite World
Mathematics, Metrology, and Professional Numeracy
Babylonian Lexical Lists
Gilgamesh and the Literary Traditions of Ancient Mesopotamia
Babylonian Astral Science
Omens Concerned with Human Behaviour
Late Babylonian Intellectual Life
International Relations: Babylonia and the Ancient Near Eastern World
Egypt and Babylon
A View from Hattusa
Babylonian Relations with the Levant during the Kassite Period
Looking down the Tigris: The Interrelations between Assyria and Babylonia
The View from Jerusalem: Biblical Responses to the Babylonian Presence
Babylonia and Persia
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