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035			_a(OCoLC)1028604809
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100	1		_aThelle, Rannfrid I., _d1966- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aDiscovering Babylon / _cRannfrid I. Thelle.
264		1	_aAbingdon, Oxon ; _aNew York, NY : _bRoutledge, _c2019.
264		4	_c©2019
300			_a1 online resource (xviii, 188 pages).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	0		_aStudies in the history of the ancient Near East
505	0		_aBeginning discovery -- Touring Babylon : the year 2000 -- In pursuit of Babylon -- Biblical Babylon -- A tale of beginnings -- Traditions and interpretations -- What did Babylon look like? -- A different biblical tale about Babel -- The exile : a foundational trauma -- Judgment on Babylon -- The evil kingdom of Babylon -- The end times -- An alternate tradition : Babylon as metropolis -- European visions of Babylon -- Medieval tower building -- The world expands -- Babylon as symbol -- Ad fontes? Babylon of the Greeks -- Discovering Babylon of antiquity -- Herodotus' Babylon -- Queen Semiramis and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon -- Netherlandish tower mania 1563-1650 -- The emergence of scientifically correct tower images -- Seeing through biblical spectacles -- Babylon, the exotic, and the apocalypse -- History in reverse : the conflation of art and science -- The discovery of Mesopotamia -- Mesopotamia : ancient Iraq -- Cuneiform : the world's first script -- Assyria : the discovery of the past and Europe's national interests -- Paul-Émile Botta -- Austen Henry Layard -- The kings and palaces receive names -- Assyria is written into world history -- The library of Assurbanipal and the achievements of the Iraqi scholar Hormuzd Rassam -- Babylonia, finally! -- Pioneer excavations in the south and the hunt for tablets -- A new perspective on human history -- The city of Babylon -- The Germans arrive : excavating Babylon -- The Ishtar gate, the processional way, and the temple of Marduk -- The encounter between the old and the new Babylon -- From the sources of Babylon -- Early cultures in Mesopotamia -- "Beer and bread" -- Ancient Sumer : the source of Babylonian culture -- Babylon : the center of the world -- The Amorites and the Old Babylonian Kingdom : Babylon's first era of greatness -- The temple of the gods : a key institution in ancient Babylonia -- Hammurabi, the righteous king -- The code of Hammurabi -- Work and society -- Hammurabi unites southern Mesopotamia -- A literary canon -- Gilgamesh : in pursuit of immortality -- The middle Babylonian period : the international age -- The first "world literature" -- Family life -- Regional collapse -- Babylon's city god Marduk -- Enuma Elish : in praise of Marduk -- Assyrian dominance -- The Chaldean Empire : Babylon's last flowering -- Wise men of the east -- The end of Babylon -- Babylon after the Babylonians : between Persians and Greeks -- A center of Jewish culture -- Mystery and reality? -- Babel and Bible -- The Bible was right -- A Babylonian flood story! -- George Smith and the Babylonian creation myth -- The Bible as interpretative key -- Growing unease -- A changing Europe -- Babel and Bible : controversy and reactions -- Babylon's resurrection -- From Babylon to Berlin -- Babylon recreated -- The excavation of Babylon and German ambition -- Visualizing Babylon -- Beyond the propaganda of Saddam's Babylon -- Art, culture and the new Babylon -- Back to the future -- "The invisible enemy" -- Back to Babylon -- The tower stands firm -- The evil empire lives on -- Babylon of the end times : apocalypse now -- The Chaldeans : the last Babylonians -- Hanging gardens and the heritage of ancient Greece -- New wonders : the Ishtar Gate and the processional way -- Appendix 1. Ancient texts referred to in the book -- Appendix 2. Major deities in ancient Babylonian religion -- Appendix 3. Time table -- Appendix 4. Important dates in the history of Babylon.
520			_aThis volume presents Babylon as it has been passed down through Western culture: through the Bible, classical texts, in Medieval travel accounts, and through depictions of the Tower motif in art. It then details the discovery of the material culture remains of Babylon from the middle of the 19th century and through the great excavation of 1899-1917, and focuses on the encounter between the Babylon of tradition and the Babylon unearthed by the archaeologists. This book is unique in its multi-disciplinary approach, combining expertise in biblical studies and Assyriology with perspectives on history, art history, intellectual history, reception studies and contemporary issues.
588			_aOCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
651		0	_aBabylon (Extinct city) _xHistory.
651		0	_aBabylon (Extinct city) _xIn the Bible.
651		0	_aIraq _xAntiquities.
650		0	_aExcavations (Archaeology) _zIraq _zBabylon (Extinct city)
650		7	_aHISTORY / Civilization. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aHISTORY / Ancient / General _2bisacsh
856	4	0	_3Taylor & Francis _uhttps://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315164359
856	4	2	_3OCLC metadata license agreement _uhttp://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf
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