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Discovering Babylon (Studies in the History of the Ancient Near East) by Rannfrid Thelle [Thelle, Rannfrid] is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Discovering Babylon (Studies in the History of the Ancient Near East) about?

Beginning discovery -- Touring Babylon : the year 2000 -- In pursuit of Babylon -- Biblical Babylon -- A tale of beginnings -- Traditions and interpretations -- What did the tower look like? -- A different biblical tale about Babel -- The exile : a foundational trauma -- Judgment on Babylon -- The evil kingdom of Babylon -- The end times -- An alternate tradition : Babylon as metropolis -- European visions of Babylon -- Medieval tower building -- The world expands -- Babylon as symbol -- Ad fontes? Babylon of the Greeks -- Discovering Babylon of antiquity -- Herodotus' Babylon -- Queen Semiramis and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon -- Netherlandish tower mania 1563-1650 -- The emergence of scientifically correct tower images -- Seeing through biblical spectacles -- Babylon, the exotic, and the apocalypse -- History in reverse : the conflation of art and science -- The discovery of Mesopotamia -- Mesopotamia : ancient Iraq -- Cuneiform : the world's first script -- Assyria : the discovery of the past and Europe's national interests -- Paul-Émile Botta -- Austen Henry Layard -- The kings and palaces receive names -- Assyria inscribes itself into world history -- The library of Assurban

Who reads Discovering Babylon (Studies in the History of the Ancient Near East)?

Author

Rannfrid Thelle [Thelle, Rannfrid]

Publisher

Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781351673891

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Anthropology, Humanities