The World of Berossos (Proceedings of the 4th International Colloquium on « The Ancient Near East between Classical and Ancient Oriental Traditions », Hatfield College, Durham 7th-9th Ju

Abstract

Overview. World of Berossos: Introduction / Johannes Haubold -- Berossos: His Life and His Work / Geert De Breucker -- Reading the Babyloniaca. 'Wisdom of the Chaldaeans': Reading Berossos, Babyloniaca Book 1 / Johannes Haubold -- Book Two: Mesopotamian Early History and the Flood Story / Martin Lang -- Babyloniaca, Book 3: Assyrians, Babylonians and Persians / Giovanni B. Lanfranchi -- Berossos' Narrative of Nabopolassar and Nebuchadnezzar II from Josephus / John Dillery -- Society, Religion and Culture. Babylon during Berossos' Lifetime / Tom Boiy -- 'Astronomical Fragments' of Berossos in Context / John M. Steele -- Berossos and Persian Religion / Bruno Jacobs -- City Walls, Sanctuaries, Palaces and the Hanging Garden / Robert Rollinger -- Literary Contexts. First Millennium BC Variation in Gilgamesh, Atrahasis, the Flood Story and the Epic of Creation: What was Available to Berossos? / Stephanie Dalley -- Berossos and Greek Historiography / Christopher Tuplin -- Seleucid Ethnography and Indigenous Kingship: The Babylonian Education of Antiochus I / Paul Kosmin -- Berossos and Manetho / Ian Moyer -- Transmission, Reception, Reconstruction. Early Reception of Berossos / Francesca Schironi -- From Berossos to Eusebius: A Christian Apologist's Shaping of 'Pagan' Literature / Irene Madreiter -- From Berossos to Berosus Chaldaeus: The Forgeries of Annius of Viterbo and Their Fortune / Walter Stephens -- Berossos in Modern Scholarship / Kai Ruffing -- Berossos: A Bibliography / Birgit Gufler, Irene Madreiter.