Keeping Watch in Babylon: The Astronomical Diaries in Context.

9789004397750

Keeping Watch in Babylon: The Astronomical Diaries in Context

Edited by Johannes Haubold, John Steele, and Kathryn Stevens

BRILL

2019

315 pages

$192.00

Hardcover

Culture and History of the Ancient Near East; Volume 100

QB19

Assyriologists, classicists, ancient historians, and historians of science and religion explore the almost 1,000 clay tablets on which Babylonian scholars recorded celestial and terrestrial events for at least 500 years from the early sixth to the middle-first centuries BCE. They consider such topics as Babylonian market prediction, who wrote the Babylonian Astronomical Diaries, the Astronomical Diaries and religion in Seleucid and Parthian Babylon: the case of the prophet of Nanaya, from Babylon to Bahtar: the geography of the Astronomical Diaries, and the relationship between Greco-Macedonian citizens and the Council of Elders during the Arsacid period: new evidence from the Astronomical Diary BM 35269 + 35347 + 35358. (Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR)