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The Babylonian World - Historia Antigua

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— Contents —<br />

11 Food and drink in Babylonia 171<br />

Frances Reynolds<br />

PART III: ECONOMIC LIFE<br />

12 Economy of ancient Mesopotamia: a general outline 187<br />

Johannes Renger<br />

13 <strong>The</strong> Old <strong>Babylonian</strong> economy 198<br />

Anne Goddeeris<br />

14 Aspects of society and economy in the later Old <strong>Babylonian</strong> Period 210<br />

Frans van Koppen<br />

15 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Babylonian</strong> economy in the first millennium BC 224<br />

Michael Jursa<br />

16 <strong>The</strong> Egibi family 236<br />

Cornelia Wunsch (translated from German by Gwendolyn Leick)<br />

PART IV: SOCIETY AND POLITICS<br />

17 Social configurations in Early Dynastic Babylonia (c.2500–2334 BC) 251<br />

Petr Charvát<br />

18 <strong>The</strong> palace and the temple in Babylonia 265<br />

Walther Sallaberger<br />

19 Power, economy and social organisation in Babylonia 276<br />

Gebhard J. Selz<br />

20 Arameans and Chaldeans: environment and society 288<br />

Frederick Mario Fales<br />

21 Women and gender in Babylonia 299<br />

Laura D. Steele<br />

PART V: RELIGION<br />

22 <strong>The</strong> role and function of goddesses in Mesopotamia 319<br />

Brigitte Groneberg<br />

23 Inanna and Ishtar in the <strong>Babylonian</strong> world 332<br />

Joan Goodnick Westenholz<br />

24 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Babylonian</strong> god Marduk 348<br />

Takayoshi Oshima<br />

25 Divination culture and the handling of the future 361<br />

Stefan M. Maul (translated from German by Gwendolyn Leick)<br />

26 Witchcraft literature in Mesopotamia 373<br />

Tzvi Abusch<br />

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