Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
1. The Land and Its People
1.1. The stage: The geography of Babylonia
1.2. The players: Ethnicity and the identity of the Babylonians
1.3. Significance of the Babylonians for history and biblical studies
1.4. Sources for the study of the Babylonians
2. Babylonia before the Babylonians: The Third Millennium B.C.E.
2.1. The first historical periods of Babylonia
2.2. The first empires of Babylonia
2.2.1. Old Akkadian Period
2.2.2. Neo-Sumerian Period
2.3. The city of Babylon
3. The Old Babylonian Period-A New World Power
3.1. Arrival of the Amorites in Mesopotamia
3.2. The Isin-Larsa period and the rise of Babylon
3.3. Hammurapi's empire
3.4. Hammurapi's dynasty
3.5. Old Babylonian literature, culture, and legacy
4. The Middle Babylonian Period
4.1. The fall of Babylon
4.2. The Kassite dynasty
4.3. The age of internationalism
4.4. Cultural developments in Kassite Babylonia
5. The Early Neo-Babylonian Period
5.1. "Sea Peoples" and the collapse of Bronze Age culture
5.2. "Babylonia for the Babylonians"
5.3. Cultural features of the early Neo-Babylonian Period
6. The Neo-Babylonian Period
6.1. Chaldeans, Arameans, and the emergence of a new Babylonia
6.2. Nabopolassar and Nebuchadnezzar: innovations and legacy
6.3. Nebuchadnezzar's successors
For Further Reading
Notes
Index of Biblical References
Index of Modern Authorities
Index of Subjects