Description: Babylon Calendar Treatise : Scholars and Invaders in the Late First Millennium BC, Hardcover by Reynolds, Frances, ISBN 0199539944, ISBN-13 9780199539949, Brand New, Free shipping in the US This volume publishes in full for the first time all known cuneiform manuscripts of an Akkadian calendar treatise that is unified by the theme of Babylonia's invasion. It was composed in the milieu of Marduk's Esagil temple in Babylon, probably in the Hellenistic period before c. 170 BC. Esagil rituals are presented as essential to protect Babylonia, and specifically Marduk's principal cult statue, from foreign attack. The treatise builds the case by drawing on traditional and late Babylonian cuneiform scholarship, including astronomy-astrology, accounts of warfare with Elam and Assyria, battle myths of Marduk and Ninurta, and wordplay. Calendrical sections contain an amalgam of apotropaic ritual against invasion, astrological omens of invasion as ritualtriggers, past conflicts as historical precedent, divine combatants representing human foes, and sophisticated exegesis. 0The work is partially preserved on damaged clay tablets in the British Museum's Babylonian collection and the volume presents hand-drawn cuneiform copies, a composite edition, and a manuscript score. A comprehensive contextualizing introduction provides readers in a range of fields - including Assyriology, classics and ancient history, ancient Iranian studies, Biblical studies, and ancient astronomy and astrology - with a key overview of topics in Mesopotamian scholarship, the manuscripts themselves, and their language and script. A detailed commentary explores how the treatise aims to demonstrate the critical importance of the traditional Esagil temple in Babylon for the security of Babylonia and its later imperial rulers.
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Book Title: Babylon Calendar Treatise : Scholars and Invaders in the Late Fir
Number of Pages: 496 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Babylon Calendar Treatise: Scholars and Invaders in the Late First Millennium BC : Edited with Introduction, Commentary, and Cuneiform Texts
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Subject: Ancient / General, Ancient, Ancient Languages (See Also Latin)
Item Height: 1.4 in
Publication Year: 2020
Type: Language Course
Item Weight: 40.3 Oz
Subject Area: Foreign Language Study, Religion, History
Author: Frances Reynolds
Item Length: 9.9 in
Item Width: 7.7 in
Format: Hardcover
