In the path of the moon : : Babylonian celestial divination and its legacy /

In the path of the moon : : Babylonian celestial divination and its legacy / / by Francesca Rochberg.

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Celestial divination, in the form of omens from lunar, planetary, astral, and meteorological phenomena, was central to Mesopotamian cuneiform scholarship and science from the late second millennium BCE into the Hellenistic period. Beyond the boundaries of ancient Mesopotamia, the ideas, texts, and t...

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Superior document:Studies in ancient magic and divination, v. 6
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Rochberg, Francesca, 1952-
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2010.
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Ancient Magic and Divination 6.
Physical Description:1 online resource (469 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / F. Rochberg
  • Introduction / F. Rochberg
  • Chapter One. Fate And Divination In Mesopotamia / F. Rochberg
  • Chapter Two. New Evidence For The History Of Astrology / F. Rochberg
  • Chapter Three. Canonicity In Cuneiform Texts / F. Rochberg
  • Chapter Four. The Assumed 29th Aḫû Tablet Of Enūma Anu Enlil / F. Rochberg
  • Chapter Five. Tcl 6 13: Mixed Traditions In Late Babylonian Astrology / F. Rochberg
  • Chapter Six. Benefic And Malefic Planets In Babylonian Astrology / F. Rochberg
  • Chapter Seven. Elements Of The Babylonian Contribution To Hellenistic Astrology / F. Rochberg
  • Chapter Eight. Babylonian Seasonal Hours / F. Rochberg
  • Chapter Nine. Babylonian Horoscopy: The Texts And Their Relations / F. Rochberg
  • Chapter Ten. Continuity And Change In Omen Literature / F. Rochberg
  • Chapter Eleven. The Babylonian Origins Of The Mandaean Book Of The Zodiac / F. Rochberg
  • Chapter Twelve. Scribes And Scholars: The Ṭupšar Enūma Anu Enlil / F. Rochberg
  • Chapter Thirteen. Lunar Data In Babylonian Horoscopes / F. Rochberg
  • Chapter Fourteen. A Babylonian Rising Times Scheme In Non-Tabular Astronomical Texts / F. Rochberg
  • Chapter Fifteen. Old Babylonian Celestial Divination / F. Rochberg
  • Chapter Sixteen. The Heavens And The Gods In Ancient Mesopotamia: The View From A Polytheistic Cosmology / F. Rochberg
  • Chapter Seventeen. A Short History Of The Waters Above The Firmament / F. Rochberg
  • Chapter Eighteen. Periodicities And Period Relations In Babylonian Celestial Sciences / F. Rochberg
  • Chapter Nineteen. Conditionals, Inference, And Possibility In Ancient Mesopotamian Science / F. Rochberg
  • Chapter Twenty. “If P, Then Q”: Form And Reasoning In Babylonian Divination / F. Rochberg
  • Chapter Twenty-One. Divine Causality And Babylonian Divination / F. Rochberg
  • Bibliography / F. Rochberg
  • Index / F. Rochberg.

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