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The scaffolding of our thoughts : essays on Assyriology and the history of science in honor of Francesca Rochberg /
Francesca Rochberg has for more than thirty-five years been a leading figure in the study of ancient science. Her foundational insights on the concepts of "science," "canon," "celestial divination," "knowledge," "gods," and "nature" in cune...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2018.
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| Colección: | Ancient magic and divination ;
volume 13 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Publications of Francesca Rochberg
- Where next for "ancient science"? / G.E.R. Lloyd
- Crow omens in Mesopotamia / Ann Kessler Guinan
- Old signs in new dress? : On the meaning of Inanna's symbol as sign and "presence" in OB divination / Abraham Winitzer
- Material, constellation, image, God : the fate of the chosen bull according to kar 50 and duplicates / Alan Lenzi
- A late Babylonian compilation concerning ritual timing and materia medica / Matthew Rutz
- Bm 40187 : a birthnote for two named individuals / Willis Monroe
- Converging fortunes-links between celestial and intestinal divination / Ulla Susanne Koch
- Sumerian divination / Jay Crisostomo
- The form and history of a Babylonian prayer to Nabu / Tzvi Abusch
- Translation in the elevation of Istar / Niek Veldhuis
- Judean scribalism, documentary epistemology, and the name / Jeffrey L. Cooley
- Dating eae : when was the astrological series Enuma Anu Ellil created? / Nils P. Heebel
- Bricoleurs in Babylonia : the scribes of Enuma Anu Enlil / Eduardo A. Escobar and Laurie E. Pearce
- The date of the accession of Nabonidus to the throne of Babylon :a reappraisal of the evidence / Grant Frame
- Intercalary months in Achaemenid Elamite administrative documents from Persepolis / Matthew W. Stolper
- The importance of experts : agents in the transfer of astral knowledge between Hellenistic Mesopotamia and the Greek-speaking world / Zoe Misiewicz
- Diodorus on the Chaldeans / Alexander Jones and John Steele
- Observing eclipses : an optical question in problemata / Alan C. Bowen
- Chaldeans on the Nile : two Egyptian astronomical procedure texts with Babylonian systems A1 and A2 for Mercury / Mathieu Ossendrijver and Andreas Winkler
- Clever machines and the gods who make them : the Antikythera Mechanism and the ancient Imagination / Daryn Lehoux.