Scholars and Scholarship in Late Babylonian Uruk

By proust

Acknowledgements.- Abbreviations.- Chapter 1. Introduction: Scholars, Scholarly Archives and the Practice of Scholarship in Late Babylonian Uruk (Christine Proust and John Steele).- Chapter 2. Cultural Imports and Local Products in the Commentaries from Uruk. The case of the Gimil-S?n Family (Uri Gabbay and Enrique Jim?nez).- Chapter 3. A Mathematical Collection Found in the "House of the āsipus". The Art of Metrology in Achaemenid Uruk (Christine Proust).- Chapter 4. Astronomical Activity in the 'House of the āsipus' in Uruk (John Steele).- Chapter 5. Astrological Texts from Late Babylonian Uruk (Hermann Hunger).- Chapter 6. Scholarly Mathematics in the Rēs Temple (Mathieu Ossendrijver).- Chapter 7. 'Star Anu, Lord of Heaven': The Influence of the Celestial Sciences on Temple Rituals in Hellenistic Uruk and Babylon (Julia Krul).- Chapter 8. Interactions Between Greek and Babylonian Thought in Seleucid Uruk (Paul-Alain Beaulieu).- Chapter 9. Uruk and the Greco-Roman World (Alexander Jones).

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030041751
• ISBN13: 9783030041755
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"