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

ISBN:

9789004189614

9789004183896

Title:

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

Author:

Rochberg, Francesca, 1952-

Personal Author:

Rochberg, Francesca, 1952-

Publication Information:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 445 pages) : illustrations (some color).

Series:

Studies in ancient magic and divination, v. 6

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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Subject Term:

Astrology, Assyro-Babylonian.

Astronomy, Assyro-Babylonian.

Omens -- Iraq -- Babylonia.

Horoscopes -- Iraq -- Babylonia.

Akkadian language -- Texts.

Cuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian.

Philosophy, Ancient.

Science -- Greece -- History.

Science -- Rome -- History.

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

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Publication Date:

2010

Publication Information:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

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Summary

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 traditions of Babylonian celestial divination are traceable in Hellenistic sciences and philosophies. This collection of essays investigates features of Babylonian celestial divination with special focus on those aspects that influenced later Greco-Roman astronomy, astrology, and theories of signs. A multi-faceted collection of philological, historical, and philosophical investigations, In the Path of the Moon offers Assyriologists, Classicists, and historians of ancient science a wide-ranging series of studies unified around the theme of Babylonian celestial divination's legacy.

"The collected essays in this volume, successive steps in an ordered path, constitute an invaluable contribution to a better understanding of Babylonian divination."

Lorenzo Verderame, "Sapienza" Università di Roma

"The reader interested in the multifaceted presentation of the problems related to the explanation of Babylonian celestial divination and well equipped with the knowledge of Akkadian will certainly be rewarded by the study of Rochberg's latest publication."

Henryk Drawnel, SDB