Rannfrid Thelle

Discovering Babylon (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351673884
• Artikelnr.: 56835175

Autorenporträt

Rannfrid Thelle is Assistant Professor in the Department of Women's Studies and Religion at Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Chapter 1: Beginning Discovery
Chapter 2: Biblical Babylon
Chapter 3: European Visions of Babylon
Chapter 4: Ad fontes? Babylon of the Greeks
Chapter 5: The Discovery of Mesopotamia
Chapter 6: From the Sources of Babylon
Chapter 7: Babel and Bible
Chapter 8: Babylon's Resurrection
Chapter 9: Back to the Future
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
Index