Imagining Babylon : : The Modern Story of an Ancient City / / Mario Liverani.

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...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (SANER) , 11
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Preface To The Italian Edition --   |t Contents --   |t List of Figures --   |t Abbreviations --   |t 1. Rediscovery and perplexity --   |t 2. Acceptance and modification --   |t 3. The season of theoretical models --   |t 4. The new models in practice --   |t 5. Modernity: new approaches and new settings --   |t 6. Post-modernity: computerization and deconstruction --   |t Bibliography --   |t Index 
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