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LEADER: 02239cam a22003254a 4500
001 2010002805
003 DLC
005 20151215081501.0
008 100126s2010 ne a 000 0 eng
010 $a 2010002805
020 $a9789004183896 (hard cover : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
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050 00 $aBF1714.A86$bR64 2010
082 00 $a133.5/9235$222
100 1 $aRochberg, Francesca,$d1952-
245 10 $aIn the path of the Moon :$bBabylonian celestial divination and its legacy /$cby Francesca Rochberg.
260 $aLeiden ;$aBoston :$bBrill,$c2010.
300 $axxii, 445 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
490 0 $aStudies in ancient magic and divination
505 0 $aFate and divination in Mesopotamia -- New evidence for the history of astrology -- Canonicity in cuneiform texts -- The assumed 29th ahû 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 tupshar 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.
650 0 $aAstrology, Assyro-Babylonian.
650 0 $aAstronomy, Assyro-Babylonian
650 0 $aOmens$zIraq$zBabylonia.
650 0 $aHoroscopes$zIraq$zBabylonia.
650 0 $aAkkadian language$xTexts.
650 0 $aCuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian.
650 0 $aPhilosophy, Ancient.
650 0 $aScience$zGreece$xHistory.
650 0 $aScience$zRome$xHistory.