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In the path of the moon : Babylonian celestial divination and its legacy /
In the Path of the Moon offers a collection of essays concerning Babylonian celestial divination. It investigates various aspects of cuneiform celestial omens, horoscopes, and astronomy and their wide-ranging influences on later Hellenistic science and philosophy.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2010.
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| Colección: | Ancient magic and divination ;
6. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.