The heavenly writing : divination, horoscopy, and astronomy in Mesopotamian culture / Francesca Rochberg.
In antiquity, the expertise of the Babylonians in matters of the heavens was legendary and the roots of both western astronomy and astrology are traceable in cuneiform tablets going back to the second and first millennia BC. The Heavenly Writing discusses the place of Babylonian celestial divination...
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Table of Contents:
- COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; CHRONOLOGICAL REFERENCES AND AKKADIAN AND ASTRONOMICAL TERMINOLOGY; THE HEAVENLY WRITING; 1 THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF MESOPOTAMIAN SCIENCE; 2 CELESTIAL DIVINATION IN CONTEXT; 3 PERSONAL CELESTIAL DIVINATION: THE BABYLONIAN HOROSCOPES; 4 SOURCES FOR HOROSCOPES IN ASTRONOMICAL TEXTS; 5 SOURCES FOR HOROSCOPES IN THE EARLY ASTROLOGICAL TRADITION; 6 THE SCRIBES AND SCHOLARS OF MESOPOTAMIAN CELESTIAL SCIENCE; 7 THE CLASSIFICATION OF MESOPOTAMIAN CELESTIAL INQUIRY AS SCIENCE.