Jean Bottéro

Jean Bottéro (30 August 1914 – 15 December 2007) was a French historian born in Vallauris. He was a major Assyriologist and a renowned expert on the Ancient Near East. He died in Gif-sur-Yvette.

Bibliography

• Collab. with Marie-Joseph Stève, Il était une fois la Mésopotamie, collection Découvertes Gallimard (nº 191), Paris: Gallimard, 1993, reprint 2009. ISBN 9782070395705.
• Babylone : À l'aube de notre culture, collection Découvertes Gallimard (nº 230), Paris: Gallimard, 1994. ISBN 9782070532551.
• Ancestor of the West: Writing, Reasoning, and Religion in Mesopotamia, Elam, and Greece, Jean Bottéro, Clarisse Herrenschmidt, and Jean-Pierre Vernant, with foreword by François Zabbal, translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan. University of Chicago Press, 2000. ISBN 978-0226067155.
• The Oldest Cuisine in the World: Cooking in Mesopotamia, Jean Bottéro, translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan. U of Chicago Press, 2004. ISBN 978-0226067353 .
• Everyday Life in Ancient Mesopotamia, Jean Bottéro, André Finet, Bertrand Lafont, Georges Roux, translated by Antonia Nevill. JHU Press, 2001. ISBN 978-0801868641.
• Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia, Jean Bottéro, translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan. U of Chicago Press, 2001. ISBN 978-0226067179
• Birth of God: The Bible and the Historian, Jean Bottéro, translated by Kees W. Bolle. Penn State Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0271040301.

External links

• Jean Bottero on data.bnf.fr
• Obituary in Le Monde (in French)
• Awilum.com » In Memoriam, Jean Bottéro 1914-2007