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In the path of the moon : Babylonian celestial divination and its legacy
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In the path of the moon : Babylonian celestial divination and its legacy / by Francesca Rochberg.
ISBN
9789004183896 (hard cover : alk. paper)
9004183892 (hard cover : alk. paper)
Published
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Physical Description
xxii, 445 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 14, 2012
Series
Studies in ancient magic and divination, v. 6
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Fate and divination in Mesopotamia
New evidence for the history of astrology
Canonicity in cuneiform texts
The assumed 29th aḫû tablet of Enūma Anu Enlil
TCL 6 13 : mixed traditions in late Babylonian astrology
Benefic and malefic planets in Babylonian astrology
Elements of the Babylonian contribution to Hellenistic astrology
Babylonian seasonal hours
Babylonian horoscopy : the texts and their relations
Continuity and change in omen literature
The Babylonian origins of the Mandaean book of the zodiac
Scribes and scholars : the ṭupšar Enūma Anu Enlil
Lunar data in Babylonian horoscopes
A Babylonian rising times scheme in non-tabular astronomical texts
Old Babylonian celestial divination
The heavens and the gods in ancient Mesopotamia : the view from a polytheistic cosmology
A short history of the waters above the firmament
Periodicities and period relations in Babylonian celestial sciences
Conditionals, inference, and possibility in ancient Mesopotamian science
"If P, then Q" : form and reasoning in Babylonian divination
Divine causality and Babylonian divination.
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