Radner, Karen

A short history of Babylon - London Bloomsbury Academic 2020 - xxvii, 239 p.: ill. Includes bibliography and index - Short histories .

Table of content

Chapter 1: Babylon in time and space
Chapter 2: Babylon's loss and rediscovery
Chapter 3: Capital: Hammurabi's Babylon
Chapter 4: Font of Knowledge: Burnaburias's Babylon
Chapter 5: Linking heaven and earth: Marduk's Babylon
Chapter 6: Negotiating power: Babylon and the Assyrians
Chapter 7: Megacity: Nebuchadnezzar's babylon
Chapter 8: Clipped wings: Babylon and the Persians
Chapter 9: Slow fade: babylon after Alexander the great



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.

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Iraq - Babylon (Extinct city)
Civilization
History - Babylon

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