Imagining Babylon: The Modern Story of an Ancient City (Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records Saner, 11)
A major work of history and archaeology that traces how ancient Babylon has been imagined and reconstructed in the modern era.
Work Information
The book follows modern imagination around the question of “real Babylon.”
From the Tower of Babel image to modern archaeology, the book organizes the formation of Babylon’s image. It is a dense and ambitious scholarly study with real strength as intellectual history.
Book Information
- Publisher
- De Gruyter
- Published
- 2016-07-11
- Pages
- 488 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 16.26 x 3.05 x 23.37 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781614516026
- ISBN-10
- 1614516022
- Price
- 32676 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/History/Ancient/Early Civilization
Ever since the archaeological rediscovery of the Ancient Near East, generations of scholars have attempted to reconstruct the "real Babylon,” known to us before from the evocative biblical account of the Tower of Babel. After two centuries of excavations and scholarship, Mario Liverani provides an insightful overview of modern, Western approaches, theories, and accounts of the ancient Near Eastern city.
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