The author, a historian brings to life the world of ancient Mesopotamia and the city of Babylon, tracing their rise from a loose federation to a monarchy to the rise of ancient Sumerian civilization, with its tales of the Great Flood and the epics of semidivine heroes such as Gi…
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Stereotypes of the oriental city before and after their rediscovery. Oriental versus Western city. The improvements in digging techniques and in graphic visualization. From evolutionism to neo-evolutionism. From colonialism to decolonization. Neo-marxist and neo-capitalist theor…
The current study presents the first comprehensive treatment of the image of Babylon as presented in medieval Muscovite manuscript stories, illuminations, icons, frescoes, and church rituals. The theme of Babylon is based primarily on chapter 3 of the Book of Daniel, in which th…
This thesis presents a new approach to the history of archaeology in Iraq. The representation of Babylon is taken as a case study through which social, political and cultural factors in the formation and development of European archaeology in Iraq are examined. Babylon's history…
The dissertation examines exile in the book of Daniel as an ideological concept. The book portrays the exile as continuing beyond the initial return of the Jewish exiles in 538 B.C.E. into the period of Second Temple Judaism. By asserting exile as its own location, the Danielic …
This study probes the historical background for the reference to Babylon in Mic. 4:10. Many Old Testament critical scholars of the nineteenth century regarded the phrase sk30 as an exilic gloss, primarily because they consider as unusual this type of reference to Babylon during …
