The Babylonian world

Content: Introduction / Gwendolyn Leick --
Land and land use. Babylonian countrysides / Seth Richardson --
Land and land use : the Middle Euphrates Valley / Lucia Mori --
Agricultural techniques / Blahoslav Hruska --
Urban form in the first millennium / Heather Baker --
Material culture. Architecture in the old Babylonian period / Harriet Crawford --
Babylonian seals / Dominique Collon --
Babylonian sources of exotic raw materials / Daniel Potts --
Cloth in the Babylonian world / Irene Good --
The Babylonian visual image / Zainab Bahrani --
Food and drink in Babylonia / Frances Reynolds --
Economic life. Economy of ancient Mesopotamia : a general outline / Johannes Renger --
The Old Babylonian economy / Anne Goodderies --
Aspects of society and economy in the later Old Babylonian period / Franz van Koppen --
The Babylonian economy in the first millennium BC / Michael Jursa --
The Egibi family / Cornelia Wunsch (translated from German by Gwendolyn Leick) --
Society and politics. Social configurations in early dynastic Babylonia (c. 2500-2334 B.C.) / Petr Charv --
Palace and the temple in Babylonia / Walther Sallaberger --
Power, economy and social organization in Babylonia / Gebhard Selz --
Arameans and Chaldeans : environment and society / Frederick M. Fales --
Women and gender In Babylonia / Laura Steele. Religion. The role and function of goddesses in Mesopotamia / Brigitte Groneberg --
Inanna and Ishtar in the Babylonian World / Joan Goodnick Westenholz --
The Babylonian god Marduk / Takayoshi Oshima --
Divination culture and handling of the future / Stefan Maul (translated from German by Gwendolyn Leick) --
Witchcraft literature in Mesopotamia / Tzvi Abush --
Intellectual life : cuneiform writing and learning. Incantations within Akkadian medical texts / Mark Geller --
Writing, sending, and reading letters in the Amorite world / Dominique Charpin (translated from French by Dafydd Roberts) --
Mathematics, metrology, and professional numeracy / Eleanor Robson --
Babylonian lexical lists / John Taylor --
Gilgamesh and the literary traditions of ancient Mesopotamia / Andrew George --
Babylonian astral science / David Brown --
Late Babylonian intellectual life / Paul-Alain Beaulieu --
Egypt and Babylon / David Warburton --
A view from Hattusa / Trevor Bryce --
Babylonian relations with the Levant during the Kassite period / Petrus van Vermaak --
Looking down the Tigris : the interrelations between Assyria and Babylonia / Hannes D. Galter --
The view from Jerusalem : Biblical responses to the Babylonian Presence / Baruch Levine --
Babylonia and Persia / Amélie Kuhrt.