PART VI: INTELLECTUAL LIFE:
CUNEIFORM WRITING AND LEARNING27 Incantations within Akkadian medical texts 389
M. J. Geller
28 The writing, sending, and reading of letters in the Amorite world 400
Dominique Charpin (translated from French by Dafydd Roberts)
29 Mathematics, metrology, and professional numeracy 418
Eleanor Robson
30 Babylonian lists of words and signs 432
Jon Taylor
31 Gilgamesh and the literary traditions of ancient Mesopotamia 447
A. R. George
32 Mesopotamian astral science 460
David Brown
33 Late Babylonian intellectual life 473
Paul-Alain Beaulieu
PART VII: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS:
BABYLONIA AND THE ANCIENT
NEAR EASTERN WORLD34 Egypt and Mesopotamia 487
David A. Warburton
35 A view from Hattusa 503
Trevor Bryce
36 Relations between Babylonia and the Levant during the
Kassite period 515
P. S. Vermaak
37 Looking down the Tigris: the interrelations between Assyria
and Babylonia 527
Hannes D. Galter
38 The view from Jerusalem: biblical responses to the Babylonian presence 541
Baruch A. Levine
39 The Persian empire 562
Amélie Kuhrt
Index 577— Contents —ix