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.