Introduction / Gwendolyn Leick -- Land and land use. Babylonian countrysides / Seth Richardson -- Land and land use : the Middle Euphrates Valley / Lucia Mori -- Agricultural techniques / Blahoslav Hruska -- Urban form in the first millennium / Heather Baker -- Material culture. Architecture in the old Babylonian period / Harriet Crawford -- Babylonian seals / Dominique Collon -- Babylonian sources of exotic raw materials / Daniel Potts -- Cloth in the Babylonian world / Irene Good -- The Babylonian visual image / Zainab Bahrani -- Food and drink in Babylonia / Frances Reynolds -- Economic life. Economy of ancient Mesopotamia : a general outline / Johannes Renger -- The Old Babylonian economy / Anne Goodderies -- Aspects of society and economy in the later Old Babylonian period / Franz van Koppen -- The Babylonian economy in the first millennium BC / Michael Jursa -- The Egibi family / Cornelia Wunsch (translated from German by Gwendolyn Leick) -- Society and politics. Social configurations in early dynastic Babylonia (c. 2500-2334 B.C.) / Petr Charv -- Palace and the temple in Babylonia / Walther Sallaberger -- Power, economy and social organization in Babylonia / Gebhard Selz -- Arameans and Chaldeans : environment and society / Frederick M. Fales -- Women and gender In Babylonia / Laura Steele. Religion. The role and function of goddesses in Mesopotamia / Brigitte Groneberg -- Inanna and Ishtar in the Babylonian World / Joan Goodnick Westenholz -- The Babylonian god Marduk / Takayoshi Oshima -- Divination culture and handling of the future / Stefan Maul (translated from German by Gwendolyn Leick) -- Witchcraft literature in Mesopotamia / Tzvi Abush -- Intellectual life : cuneiform writing and learning. Incantations within Akkadian medical texts / Mark Geller -- Writing, sending, and reading letters in the Amorite world / Dominique Charpin (translated from French by Dafydd Roberts) -- Mathematics, metrology, and professional numeracy / Eleanor Robson -- Babylonian lexical lists / John Taylor -- Gilgamesh and the literary traditions of ancient Mesopotamia / Andrew George -- Babylonian astral science / David Brown -- Late Babylonian intellectual life / Paul-Alain Beaulieu -- Egypt and Babylon / David Warburton -- A view from Hattusa / Trevor Bryce -- Babylonian relations with the Levant during the Kassite period / Petrus van Vermaak -- Looking down the Tigris : the interrelations between Assyria and Babylonia / Hannes D. Galter -- The view from Jerusalem : Biblical responses to the Babylonian Presence / Baruch Levine -- Babylonia and Persia / Amélie Kuhrt.
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Exploring all key aspects of the development of this€ancient culture, The Babylonian World presents an extensive, up-to-date and lavishly illustrated history of the ancient state Babylonia and its 'holy city', Babylon.",,,,,"Exploring all key aspects of the development of this€ancient culture, The Babylonian World presents an extensive, up-to-date and lavishly illustrated history of the ancient state Babylonia and its 'holy city', Babylon.