Scholars and Scholarship in Late Babylonian Uruk
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| Summary: | X, 274 p. 24 illus. text |
| Language: | English |
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Cham :
Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2019.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2019. |
| Series: | Why the Sciences of the Ancient World Matter,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04176-2 |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
Table of Contents:
- 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-Sîn Family (Uri Gabbay and Enrique Jiménez)
- Chapter 3. A Mathematical Collection Found in the “House of the āšipus”. The Art of Metrology in Achaemenid Uruk (Christine Proust)
- Chapter 4. Astronomical Activity in the ‘House of the āšipus’ in Uruk (John Steele)
- Chapter 5. Astrological Texts from Late Babylonian Uruk (Hermann Hunger)
- Chapter 6. Scholarly Mathematics in the Rēš 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).