Francesca Rochberg

In the Path of the Moon

Babylonian Celestial Divination and Its Legacy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 472
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 165mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 907g
• ISBN-13: 9789004183896
• ISBN-10: 9004183892
• Artikelnr.: 29438540

Autorenporträt

Francesca Rochberg, Ph.D., University of Chicago, is Catherine and William Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She has published widely on Babylonian divination and science, including The Heavenly Writing: Divination, Horoscopy and Astronomy in Mesopotamian Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2004).