Imagining Babylon : the modern story of an ancient city / Mario Liverani ; translated from the Italian by Ailsa Campbell.

By:

Liverani, Mario [author.]

Contributor(s):

Campbell, Ailsa [translator.]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Italian Series: Studies in ancient Near Eastern records ; volume 11.Publisher: Boston : De Gruyter, [2016]Copyright date: �2016Description: 1 online resource (506 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781614514589 (e-book)

Uniform titles:

Immaginare Babele. English

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Imagining Babylon : the modern story of an ancient city.DDC classification:

935/.5 23

LOC classification:

HT114 .L5813 2016

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Scope and content: "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"--Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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"--Provided by publisher.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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