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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Rochberg, Francesca, 1952-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Series:	Ancient magic and divination ; 6.
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:

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.