In the Path of the Moon: Babylonian Celestial Divination and Its LegacyBRILL, 11 mai 2010 - 470 pages Celestial divination, in the form of omens from lunar, planetary, astral, and meteorological phenomena, was central to Mesopotamian cuneiform scholarship and science from the late second millennium BCE into the Hellenistic period. Beyond the boundaries of ancient Mesopotamia, the ideas, texts, and traditions of Babylonian celestial divination are traceable in Hellenistic sciences and philosophies. This collection of essays investigates features of Babylonian celestial divination with special focus on those aspects that influenced later Greco-Roman astronomy, astrology, and theories of signs. A multi-faceted collection of philological, historical, and philosophical investigations, In the Path of the Moon offers Assyriologists, Classicists, and historians of ancient science a wide-ranging series of studies unified around the theme of Babylonian celestial divination's legacy. "The collected essays in this volume, successive steps in an ordered path, constitute an invaluable contribution to a better understanding of Babylonian divination." Lorenzo Verderame, "Sapienza" Università di Roma "The reader interested in the multifaceted presentation of the problems related to the explanation of Babylonian celestial divination and well equipped with the knowledge of Akkadian will certainly be rewarded by the study of Rochberg’s latest publication." Henryk Drawnel, SDB |
Table des matières
Introduction | 1 |
Chapter One Fate and Divination in Mesopotamia | 19 |
Chapter Two New Evidence for the History of Astrology | 31 |
Chapter Three Canonicity in Cuneiform Texts | 65 |
Chapter Four The Assumed 29th Ahu Tablet of Enuma Anu Enlil | 85 |
Mixed Traditions in Late Babylonian Astrology | 113 |
Chapter Six Benefic and Malefic Planets in Babylonian Astrology | 135 |
Chapter Seven Elements of the Babylonian Contribution to Hellenistic Astrology | 143 |
Chapter Thirteen Lunar Data in Babylonian Horoscopes | 257 |
Chapter Fourteen A Babylonian Rising Times Scheme in NonTabular Astronomical Texts | 271 |
Chapter Fifteen Old Babylonian Celestial Divination | 303 |
The View from a Polytheistic Cosmology | 317 |
Chapter Seventeen A Short History of the Waters above the Firmament | 339 |
Chapter Eighteen Periodicities and Period Relations in Babylonian Celestial Sciences | 355 |
Chapter Nineteen Conditionals Inference and Possibility in Ancient Mesopotamian Science | 373 |
Form and Reasoning in Babylonian Divination | 399 |
Chapter Eight Babylonian Seasonal Hours | 167 |
The Texts and Their Relations | 189 |
Chapter Ten Continuity and Change in Omen Literature | 211 |
Chapter Eleven The Babylonian Origins of the Mandaean Book of the Zodiac | 223 |
The Tupsar Enuma Anu Enlil | 237 |
Chapter TwentyOne Divine Causality and Babylonian Divination | 411 |
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ACh Supp Akkad Akkadian Amurru AN.GE ancient apodosis Aries Assyrian astral Astrolabe astronomical texts attested Babylonian astronomy Babylonian celestial Babylonian horoscopes BE-ma birth canonical causality celestial divination celestial omens century B.C.E. colophons context cosmic cuneiform cuneiform texts daylight diaries DIŠ ditto Enūma Anu Enlil evidence extispicy gods Greek astrology heaven heavenly Hellenistic Hellenistic astrology Jupiter KIMIN king Lambert late Babylonian LBAT logogram longitudes LUGAL lunar eclipse lunar eclipse omens Marduk Mars meaning Mesopotamian month moon MUL.APIN Neo-Assyrian Neugebauer niirti normal star occurs Old Babylonian omen series omen texts parallel period phenomena Pingree Pisces planetary planets position predictions protasis reference relation rising šá Sachs Sagittarius Šamaš Saturn scheme Scorpius scribal scribes Seleucid simanu šīmtu Subartu Sumerian šumma sunrise tablet tion tradition Uruk Venus Weidner ziqpu stars zodiacal signs