Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum, Margarete van Ess and Joachim Marzahn (Eds.), Babylon. Wissenskultur in Orient und Okzident/ Science Culture Between Orient and Occident, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2011
In this collection of interdisciplinary papers, for the first time well-known scholars of Ancient Near Eastern Studies discuss Babylon from the point of view of the “culture of knowledge”. The volume is the result of a conference that took place on the occasion of the exhibitionBabylon – Truth and Myth in Berlin. For the contemporary cultures of the Ancient World, Babylon was the epitome of learned scholarship. Yet in the processes of transformation of Late and post-Antiquity, to the same extent to which this culture of knowledge was forgotten after the collapse of the old oriental empires, Babylon became symbolic for the occult, for magic and esoteric knowledge.
| 3–18 | John Curtis, "The present condition of Babylon", in: Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum, Margarete van Ess and Joachim Marzahn (Eds.), Babylon. Wissenskultur in Orient und Okzident/ Science Culture Between Orient and Occident, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2011, 3–18 |
| 19–46 | Maryam U. Musa, "The situation of the Babylon Archeological Site until 2006", in: Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum, Margarete van Ess and Joachim Marzahn (Eds.), Babylon. Wissenskultur in Orient und Okzident/ Science Culture Between Orient and Occident, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2011, 19–46 |
| 47–67 | Olof Pedersén, "Excavated and Unexcavated Libraries in Babylon", in: Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum, Margarete van Ess and Joachim Marzahn (Eds.), Babylon. Wissenskultur in Orient und Okzident/ Science Culture Between Orient and Occident, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2011, 47–67 |
| 71–76 | Wilfred G. Lambert, "Babylon: Origins", in: Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum, Margarete van Ess and Joachim Marzahn (Eds.), Babylon. Wissenskultur in Orient und Okzident/ Science Culture Between Orient and Occident, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2011, 71–76 |
| 77–89 | Dominique Charpin, "Babylon in der altbabylonischen Zeit: eine Hauptstadt von vielen … die als einzige übrig blieb", in: Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum, Margarete van Ess and Joachim Marzahn (Eds.), Babylon. Wissenskultur in Orient und Okzident/ Science Culture Between Orient and Occident, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2011, 77–89 |
| 91–111 | Frederick M. Fales, "Moving around Babylon: On the Aramean and Chaldean Presence in Southern Mesopotamia", in: Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum, Margarete van Ess and Joachim Marzahn (Eds.), Babylon. Wissenskultur in Orient und Okzident/ Science Culture Between Orient and Occident, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2011, 91–111 |
| 113–120 | Francis Joannès, "L’écriture publique du pouvoir à Babylone sous Nabuchodonosor II", in: Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum, Margarete van Ess and Joachim Marzahn (Eds.), Babylon. Wissenskultur in Orient und Okzident/ Science Culture Between Orient and Occident, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2011, 113–120 |
| 123–134 | Dina Katz, "Reconstructing Babylon: Recycling Mythological Traditions Toward a New Theology", in: Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum, Margarete van Ess and Joachim Marzahn (Eds.), Babylon. Wissenskultur in Orient und Okzident/ Science Culture Between Orient and Occident, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2011, 123–134 |
| 135–152 | Stefan M. Maul, "Die Wissenschaft von der Zukunft Überlegungen zur Bedeutung der Divination im Alten Orient", in: Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum, Margarete van Ess and Joachim Marzahn (Eds.), Babylon. Wissenskultur in Orient und Okzident/ Science Culture Between Orient and Occident, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2011, 135–152 |
| 153–158 | Mark J. Geller, "Die theoretische Grundlage der babylonischen Heilkunde", in: Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum, Margarete van Ess and Joachim Marzahn (Eds.), Babylon. Wissenskultur in Orient und Okzident/ Science Culture Between Orient and Occident, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2011, 153–158 |
| 159–170 | Hans Neumann, "Bemerkungen zu einigen Aspekten babylonischen Rechtsdenkens im Spannungsfeld von Theorie und Praxis", in: Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum, Margarete van Ess and Joachim Marzahn (Eds.), Babylon. Wissenskultur in Orient und Okzident/ Science Culture Between Orient and Occident, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2011, 159–170 |
| 171–196 | Nils P. Heeßel, "Sieben Tafeln aus sieben Städten" – Überlegungen zum Prozess der Serialisierung von Texten in Babylonien in der zweiten Hälfte des zweiten Jahrtausends v.Chr", in: Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum, Margarete van Ess and Joachim Marzahn (Eds.), Babylon. Wissenskultur in Orient und Okzident/ Science Culture Between Orient and Occident, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2011, 171–196 |
| 197–212 | Wilfred van Soldt, "The Role of Babylon in Western Peripheral Education", in: Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum, Margarete van Ess and Joachim Marzahn (Eds.), Babylon. Wissenskultur in Orient und Okzident/ Science Culture Between Orient and Occident, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2011, 197–212 |
| 213–221 | Mathieu Ossendrijver, "Science in Action: Networks in Babylonian Astronomy", in: Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum, Margarete van Ess and Joachim Marzahn (Eds.), Babylon. Wissenskultur in Orient und Okzident/ Science Culture Between Orient and Occident, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2011, 213–221 |
| 225–238 | Michael Erler, "Chaldäer im Platonismus", in: Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum, Margarete van Ess and Joachim Marzahn (Eds.), Babylon. Wissenskultur in Orient und Okzident/ Science Culture Between Orient and Occident, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2011, 225–238 |
| 239–252 | Daniel T. Potts, "The politai and the bı¯t ta¯martu: The Seleucid and Parthian Theatres of the Greek Citizens of Babylon", in: Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum, Margarete van Ess and Joachim Marzahn (Eds.), Babylon. Wissenskultur in Orient und Okzident/ Science Culture Between Orient and Occident, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2011, 239–252 |
| 253–270 | Reinhard Kratz, "Nabonid in Qumran", in: Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum, Margarete van Ess and Joachim Marzahn (Eds.), Babylon. Wissenskultur in Orient und Okzident/ Science Culture Between Orient and Occident, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2011, 253–270 |
| 271–284 | Willem Smelik, "Myth and Truth: Babylon in the Babylonian Talmud", in: Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum, Margarete van Ess and Joachim Marzahn (Eds.), Babylon. Wissenskultur in Orient und Okzident/ Science Culture Between Orient and Occident, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2011, 271–284 |
| 285–293 | Christoph Markschies, "Babylon bei den Kirchenvätern", in: Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum, Margarete van Ess and Joachim Marzahn (Eds.), Babylon. Wissenskultur in Orient und Okzident/ Science Culture Between Orient and Occident, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2011, 285–293 |
| 295–304 | Jean-Jaques Glassner, "Noch einmal: Der Turm zu Babel und die vielen Sprachen", in: Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum, Margarete van Ess and Joachim Marzahn (Eds.), Babylon. Wissenskultur in Orient und Okzident/ Science Culture Between Orient and Occident, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2011, 295–304 |
| 305–316 | Gotthard Strohmaier, "H·arra¯n – die Stadt des Sin in islamischer Zeit", in: Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum, Margarete van Ess and Joachim Marzahn (Eds.), Babylon. Wissenskultur in Orient und Okzident/ Science Culture Between Orient and Occident, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2011, 305–316 |
| 317–346 | Andrzej Reiche, "Die altorientalischen Denkmäler in den Museen in Polen", in: Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum, Margarete van Ess and Joachim Marzahn (Eds.), Babylon. Wissenskultur in Orient und Okzident/ Science Culture Between Orient and Occident, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2011, 317–346 |
