| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 445 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Series |
Studies in ancient magic and divination, 1566-7952 ; v. 6 |
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Ancient magic and divination ; 6.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Astrology, Assyro-Babylonian.
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Astronomy, Assyro-Babylonian.
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Omens -- Iraq -- Babylonia
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Horoscopes -- Iraq -- Babylonia
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Akkadian language -- Texts
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Cuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian.
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Philosophy, Ancient.
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Science -- Greece -- History
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Science -- Rome -- History
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Astrology -- General.
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Akkadian language
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Astrology, Assyro-Babylonian
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Astronomy, Assyro-Babylonian
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Cuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian
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Horoscopes
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Omens
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Philosophy, Ancient
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Science
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Babyloniërs.
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Hemellichamen.
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Religieuze aspecten.
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Astrologie.
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Greece
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Middle East -- Babylonia
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Rome (Empire)
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Babylon.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Texts
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789004189614 |
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9004189610 |
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9789004183896 |
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9004183892 |
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