Mesopotamian Chronicles

Mesopotamian Chronicles
Author: Jean-Jacques Glassner
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2005
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9004130845

This English translation of Glassner s Chroniques Mésopotamiennes (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1993) collects all chronicle literature of ancient Mesopotamia from the early second millenium to Seleucid times. The volume, which incorporates revisions and additions by the author and a transcription of the cuneiform, includes every example of Sumerian, Assyrian, and Babylonian historiographic literature, and magisterial essays on the genre and on Mesopotamian historiography in general.Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org)

Who Were the Babylonians?

Who Were the Babylonians?
Author: Bill T. Arnold
Publisher: SBL Press
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2019-01-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 158983870X

This engaging and informative introduction to the the Babylonians were important not only because of their many historical contacts with ancient Israel but because they and their predecessors, the Sumerians, established the philosophical and social infrastructure for most of Western Asia for nearly two millennia. Beginning and advanced students as well as biblical scholars and interested nonspecialists will read this introduction to the history and culture of the Babylonians with interest and profit.