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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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: Burnaburias'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
