Description: List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPreface to the Revised EditionPrefatory NoteIntroduction: Assyriology-Why and How?I. The Making of MesopotamiaThe BackgroundThe SettingThe ActorsThe World AroundII. Go to, let us build a city and a tower!The Social TextureEconomic Facts"The Great Organizations"The CityUrbanismIII. Regnum a gente in gentem transferturHistorical Sources or Literature?An Essay on Babylonian HistoryAn Essay on Assyrian HistoryIV. Nah ist-und schwer zu fassen der GottWhy a "Mesopotamian Religion" Should Not Be WrittenThe Care and Feeding of the GodsMesopotamian "Psychology"The Arts of the DivinerV. Laterculis coctilibusThe Meaning of WritingThe ScribesThe Creative EffortPatterns in Non-Literary TextsVI. There are many strange wonders, but nothing more wonderful than manMedicine and PhysiciansMathematics and AstronomyCraftsmen and ArtistsEpilogueAppendix: Mesopotamian Chronology of the Historical Period by J. A. BrinkmanNotesBibliographical NotesGlossary of Names and TermsIndex

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