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Babylonian Chronographic Texts from the Hellenistic Period
Author(s): R J Van Der Spek (Author), Irving L Finkel (Author), Reinhard Pirngruber (Author), Kathryn Stevens (Author)
- Publisher: SBL Press
- Publication Date: May 2, 2025
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 1174 pages
- ISBN-10: 1628375876
- ISBN-13: 9781628375879
Book Description
A comprehensive edition of Akkadian chronographic texts from the fourth to the first centuries BCE Babylonian Chronographic Texts from the Hellenistic Period gathers in a single volume previously unpublished tablets together with those that have appeared before, including the Babylonian chronicles, the historical sections of the Astronomical Diaries, the Babylonian and Uruk King Lists, and the Antiochus Cylinder from Borsippa. The volume offers new descriptions, transliterations, and translations of each tablet, together with full linguistic and historical commentary. This comprehensive collection brings these important historiographic tools to a broader audience of scholars of history, biblical studies, and the ancient world. An appendix with entries on political institutions, temples, important persons, and Babylonian and Greek words makes this an indispensable tool for students.
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About the Author
R. J. (Bert) van der Spek is Professor Emeritus of Ancient Mediterranean and West Asian History at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He coauthored with L. de Blois the widely used textbook An Introduction to the Ancient World (2019) and coedited with Jan Luiten van Zanden and Bas van Leeuwen A History of Market Performance from Ancient Babylonia to the Modern World (2015). Irving Finkel is senior curator in the Department of the Middle East at the British Museum. He is the author of The Ark before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood (2014). Reinhard Pirngruber is a specialist in economic history and the Astronomical Diaries who has held doctoral and postdoctoral research positions at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and in Vienna. He is the author of The Economy of Late Achaemenid and Seleucid Babylonia (2017). Kathryn Stevens is Associate Professor of Ancient History at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Corpus Christi College. She is the author of Between Greece and Babylonia: Hellenistic Intellectual History in Cross-Cultural Perspective (2019).
