Religion in Hellenistic Mesopotamia

[david]

Does anyone have any recommendations for learning more about religion in Hellenistic Mesopotamia, I would really like to learn more about how the Mesopotamian religion was practiced after Alexander the Great, how it adapted, etc. I alredy have some recommendations for religion in Hellenistic Egypt, but, I'm not sure about Mesopotamia, I know that Mesopotamia and ancient Greece did have quite a few links with each other (so much so that ancient Greek Sages, magicians, etc might say they learned their wisdom, magic, etc from Mesopotamia, whether they did or not).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

David.

[madness]

Not a subject that I am familiar with, but a good start might be:

The Cults of Uruk and Babylon
The Temple Ritual Texts as Evidence for Hellenistic Cult Practice
Cuneiform Monographs 25
by Marc J.H. Linssen

[david]

Thanks for the book tip

David.

[madness]

Also,

Berossos and Manetho, Introduced and Translated
Native Traditions in Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt
by Gerald P. Verbrugghe and John M. Wickersham

www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=15356


Berossos was a Hellenistic Babylonian writer, in the 3rd century BC, and was a priest of Bel (Marduk) at Babylon. He chronicled the past of ancient Babylon from the mythical creation of the world down to Alexander the Great's conquest.

This book is for "everyone interested in the effects of Hellenization on the ancient Near Eastern cultures."

[david]

Thanks for that book tip too.

David.

[ninurta2008]

Didn't Lucian of Samosata write about hellenistic mesopotamia as well? Or am I thinking of something else?

[xuchilpaba]

If I am right the Akkadian-Babylonian religion declined with the Persian empire who had extensive contact with the Greeks.