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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.

Author(s): Karen Radner
Series: Short Histories
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Year: 2020

Language: English
Pages: xxviii+244

A Short History of Babylon
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Timeline
Introduction
1 Babylon in time and space
2 Babylon’s loss and rediscovery
3 Capital: Hammurabi’s Babylon
4 Font of Knowledge: Burnaburiaš’s Babylon
5 Linking Heaven and Earth: Marduk’s Babylon
6 Negotiating Power: Babylon and the Assyrians
7 Megacity: Nebuchadnezzar’s Babylon
8 Clipped Wings: Babylon and the Persians
9 Slow Fade: Babylon after Alexander the Great
Notes
Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Bibliography
Index