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- Figures
- About the Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on Typographical Conventions
- Introduction
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- Materiality and Literacies
- Tablets as Artefacts, Scribes as Artisans
- Accounting in Proto-Cuneiform
- Numeracy and Metrology
- Levels of Literacy
- Literacy and Gender
- Individuals and Communities
- The Person in Mesopotamian Thought
- The Scribe of The Flood Story and his Circle
- Feasts For The Living, The Dead, and The Gods
- Cuneiform Writing in Neo-Babylonian Temple Communities
- Freedom in Ancient Near Eastern Societies
- Experts and Novices
- Teacher–Student Relationships: Two Case Studies
- Patron and Client: Zimri-Lim and Asqudum The Diviner
- Learned, Rich, Famous, and Unhappy: Ur-Utu of Sippar
- Music, The Work of Professionals
- The Education of Neo-Assyrian Princes
- Decisions
- Judicial Decision-Making: Judges and Arbitrators
- Royal Decision-Making: Kings, Magnates, and Scholars
- Assyria At War: Strategy and Conduct
- Manipulating The Gods: Lamenting in Context
- Magic Rituals: Conceptualization and Performance
- Interpretations
- Sheep and Sky: Systems of Divinatory Interpretation
- Making Sense of Time: Observational and Theoretical Calendars
- Letters as Correspondence, Letters as Literature
- Keeping Company With Men of Learning: The King as Scholar
- From Street Altar to Palace: Reading the Built Environment of Urban Babylonia
- Making knowledge
- The Production and Dissemination of Scholarly Knowledge
- Tablets of Schools and Scholars: A Portrait of the Old Babylonian Corpus
- Adapting to New Contexts: Cuneiform in Anatolia
- Observing and Describing The World Through Divination and Astronomy
- Berossos between Tradition and Innovation
- Shaping tradition
- Agriculture as Civilization: Sages, Farmers, and Barbarians
- Sourcing, Organizing, and Administering Medicinal Ingredients
- Changing Images of Kingship in Sumerian Literature
- The Pious King: Royal Patronage of Temples
- Cuneiform Culture's Last Guardians: The Old Urban Notability of Hellenistic Uruk
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
This article aims to contribute to the study of Babylonian traditions in Berossos' time and to reveal how a native Babylonian conceived the history of his culture at that period. It examines how Babylonian and Greek culture converged and shows that Berossos unified Babylonian historical traditions and Greek scholarship and transformed native traditions according to Greek forms and concepts. It also describes Berossos' portrait of Babylonian history and its wider cultural context.
Keywords: Berossos, Babylonian traditions, Babylonian culture, Greek culture, historical traditions, Greek scholarship
Geert De Breucker studied classics and ancient Near Eastern studies at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, and wrote his PhD thesis at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen on the Babyloniaca of Berossos and its cultural setting. His main research interests are in Babylonia in the Hellenistic period and the cultural interactions between the Greek world and Mesopotamia.
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- [UNTITLED]
- Figures
- About the Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on Typographical Conventions
- Introduction
- [UNTITLED]
- Materiality and Literacies
- Tablets as Artefacts, Scribes as Artisans
- Accounting in Proto-Cuneiform
- Numeracy and Metrology
- Levels of Literacy
- Literacy and Gender
- Individuals and Communities
- The Person in Mesopotamian Thought
- The Scribe of The Flood Story and his Circle
- Feasts For The Living, The Dead, and The Gods
- Cuneiform Writing in Neo-Babylonian Temple Communities
- Freedom in Ancient Near Eastern Societies
- Experts and Novices
- Teacher–Student Relationships: Two Case Studies
- Patron and Client: Zimri-Lim and Asqudum The Diviner
- Learned, Rich, Famous, and Unhappy: Ur-Utu of Sippar
- Music, The Work of Professionals
- The Education of Neo-Assyrian Princes
- Decisions
- Judicial Decision-Making: Judges and Arbitrators
- Royal Decision-Making: Kings, Magnates, and Scholars
- Assyria At War: Strategy and Conduct
- Manipulating The Gods: Lamenting in Context
- Magic Rituals: Conceptualization and Performance
- Interpretations
- Sheep and Sky: Systems of Divinatory Interpretation
- Making Sense of Time: Observational and Theoretical Calendars
- Letters as Correspondence, Letters as Literature
- Keeping Company With Men of Learning: The King as Scholar
- From Street Altar to Palace: Reading the Built Environment of Urban Babylonia
- Making knowledge
- The Production and Dissemination of Scholarly Knowledge
- Tablets of Schools and Scholars: A Portrait of the Old Babylonian Corpus
- Adapting to New Contexts: Cuneiform in Anatolia
- Observing and Describing The World Through Divination and Astronomy
- Berossos between Tradition and Innovation
- Shaping tradition
- Agriculture as Civilization: Sages, Farmers, and Barbarians
- Sourcing, Organizing, and Administering Medicinal Ingredients
- Changing Images of Kingship in Sumerian Literature
- The Pious King: Royal Patronage of Temples
- Cuneiform Culture's Last Guardians: The Old Urban Notability of Hellenistic Uruk
- Index
