In the path of the Moon
Subtitle: Babylonian celestial divination and its legacy
By: by Francesca Rochberg.
Series: Studies in ancient magic and divination
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789004183896
Subjects: 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
Table of contents: title: Fate and divination in Mesopotamia; title: New evidence for the history of astrology; title: Canonicity in cuneiform texts; title: The assumed 29th ahû tablet of Enūma Anu Enlil; title: TCL 6 13 : mixed traditions in late Babylonian astrology; title: Benefic and malefic planets in Babylonian astrology; title: Elements of the Babylonian contribution to Hellenistic astrology; title: Babylonian seasonal hours; title: Babylonian horoscopy : the texts and their relations; title: Continuity and change in omen literature; title: The Babylonian origins of the Mandaean book of the zodiac; title: Scribes and scholars : the tupshar Enūma Anu Enlil; title: Lunar data in Babylonian horoscopes; title: A Babylonian rising times scheme in non-tabular astronomical texts; title: Old Babylonian celestial divination; title: The heavens and the gods in ancient Mesopotamia : the view from a polytheistic cosmology; title: A short history of the waters above the firmament; title: Periodicities and period relations in   Babylonian celestial sciences; title: Conditionals, inference, and possibility in ancient Mesopotamian science; title: "If P, then Q" : form and reasoning in Babylonian divination; title: Divine causality and Babylonian divination.