In the Path of the Moon : Babylonian celestial divination and its legacy

1. Verfasser: Rochberg, Francesca, 1952-
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Leiden : Boston. Brill, 2010.
Umfang/Format: xxii, 445 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Studies in ancient magic and divination 6
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490 0 |a Studies in ancient magic and divination  |v 6 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 425-438) and index. 
505 0 |a Fate and divination in Mesopotamia -- New evidence for the history of astrology -- Canonicity in cuneiform texts -- The assumed 29th ahu tablet of Enuma 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 tupshar Enuma 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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