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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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2016 Part 1 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2016] ©2016 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (SANER) ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XVIII, 488 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface To The Italian Edition
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Abbreviations
- 1. Rediscovery and perplexity
- 2. Acceptance and modification
- 3. The season of theoretical models
- 4. The new models in practice
- 5. Modernity: new approaches and new settings
- 6. Post-modernity: computerization and deconstruction
- Bibliography
- Index