The Babylonian World (Routledge Worlds)

11 Food and drink in Babylonia 171
Frances Reynolds

PART III: ECONOMIC LIFE

12 Economy of ancient Mesopotamia: a general outline 187
Johannes Renger

13 The Old Babylonian economy 198
Anne Goddeeris

14 Aspects of society and economy in the later Old Babylonian Period 210
Frans van Koppen

15 The Babylonian economy in the first millennium BC 224
Michael Jursa

16 The Egibi family 236
Cornelia Wunsch (translated from German by Gwendolyn Leick)

PART IV: SOCIETY AND POLITICS

17 Social configurations in Early Dynastic Babylonia (c. 2500 – 2334 BC) 251
Petr Charvát

18 The palace and the temple in Babylonia 265
Walther Sallaberger

19 Power, economy and social organisation in Babylonia 276
Gebhard J. Selz

20 Arameans and Chaldeans: environment and society 288
Frederick Mario Fales

21 Women and gender in Babylonia 299
Laura D. Steele

PART V: RELIGION

22 The role and function of goddesses in Mesopotamia 319
Brigitte Groneberg

23 Inanna and Ishtar in the Babylonian world 332
Joan Goodnick Westenholz

24 The Babylonian god Marduk 348
Takayoshi Oshima

25 Divination culture and the handling of the future 361
Stefan M. Maul (translated from German by Gwendolyn Leick)

26 Witchcraft literature in Mesopotamia 373
Tzvi Abusch

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