| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 445 pages) : illustrations (some color). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
Studies in ancient magic and divination,
1566-7952 ;
v. 6
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Ancient magic and divination ; 6.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Astrology, Assyro-Babylonian.
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Astrology, Assyro-Babylonian. |
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Astronomy, Assyro-Babylonian.
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Astronomy, Assyro-Babylonian. |
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Omens -- Iraq -- Babylonia.
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Omens. |
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Iraq. |
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Horoscopes -- Iraq -- Babylonia.
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Horoscopes. |
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Akkadian language -- Texts.
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Akkadian language -- Texts. |
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Cuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian.
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Cuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian. |
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Philosophy, Ancient.
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Philosophy, Ancient. |
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Science -- Greece -- History.
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Science. |
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Greece. |
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History. |
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Science -- Rome -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Texts.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rochberg, Francesca, 1952- In the path of the moon. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010 9789004183896 (DLC) 2010002805 (OCoLC)503654861 |
| ISBN |
9789004189614 (electronic book) |
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9004189610 (electronic book) |
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9789004183896 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9004183892 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
9786612786945 |
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