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Imagining Babylon: The Modern Story of an Ancient City (Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (SANER))

Imagining Babylon: The Modern Story of an Ancient City (Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (SANER))

by Mario Liverani (Author)

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    Hardcover 2016

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Synopsis

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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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 488
 Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 11 Jul 2016
ISBN 10: 1614516022
ISBN 13: 9781614516026

Media Reviews
[...] this is an eminently readable book, written by one of the most innovative historians of the ancient Near East in the past fifty years. Imagining Babylon is an important contribution to the historiography of the ancient city.
Felipe Rojas in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2018.03.28
Author Bio
Mario Liverani, University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy.