In May 2025, Bert van der Spek, Irving Finkel, Reinhard Pirngruber, and Kathryn Stevens published a critical edition with translations and commentary of all the so-called Babylonian Chronicles and historical sections of the Babylonian Astronomical Diaries, including the Babylon and Uruk king lists and the Antiochus Cylinder:
Babylonian Chronographic Texts from the Hellenistic Period (Atlanta: SBL Press 2025).
This work is set to become a key resource for historians of the Hellenistic period – Assyriologists as well as Classicists and Archaeologists.
We cordially invite you to join us on Friday 5 June for a symposium on the new publication with six experts. They will discuss the subject of Babylon as a mirror of political, social and religious developments in the Near East during the Hellenistic period, taking into account local changes in Babylonia itself since the Neo-Babylonian Empire.
SBL will offer symposium participants the opportunity to buy the book at a 30% discount.
More information about the symposium can be found here: information symposium.