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Keeping Watch in Babylon: The Astronomical Diaries in Context

Keeping Watch in Babylon: The Astronomical Diaries in Context

Haubold, Johannes
Steele, John
Stevens, Kathryn

Hardcover

Ancient History GeneralAstronomy & SpaceGeneral European History

ISBN10: 9004397752
ISBN13: 9789004397750
Publisher: Brill
Published: Apr 25 2019
Pages: 316
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
This volume of collected essays, the first of its kind in any language, investigates the Astronomical Diaries from ancient Babylon, a collection of almost 1000 clay tablets which, over a period of some five hundred years (6th century to 1st century BCE), record observations of selected astronomical phenomena as well as the economy and history of Mesopotamia and surrounding regions. The volume asks who the scholars were, what motivated them to 'keep watch in Babylon' and how their approach changed in the course of the collection's long history. Contributors come from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, including Assyriology, Classics, ancient history, the history of science and the history of religion.

Babylon has always exerted a magical charm on everyone who has been told of its splendour and grandeur. Nobody who has succumbed to this charm, whether he is a layman who just wants to browse a little in his search for old secrets, or a scholar who wants to inform himself about the latest academic research, will be disappointed by this volume. - Erlend Gehlken, Universität Frankfurt/Main, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review February 2 (2020)

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