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Scholars and Scholarship in Late Babylonian Uruk

Scholars and Scholarship in Late Babylonian Uruk

Proust, Christine
Steele, John

Hardcover

Series: Why the Sciences of the Ancient World Matter, Book 2

Sports GeneralAncient History GeneralGeneral Mathematics

ISBN10: 3030041751
ISBN13: 9783030041755
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Jan 24 2019
Pages: 274
Weight: 1.27
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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 āsipus. The Art of Metrology in Achaemenid Uruk (Christine Proust).- Chapter 4. Astronomical Activity in the 'House of the āsipus' in Uruk (John Steele).- Chapter 5. Astrological Texts from Late Babylonian Uruk (Hermann Hunger).- Chapter 6. Scholarly Mathematics in the Rēs 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).

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