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  title info:
    title: In the path of the moon
    sub title: Babylonian celestial divination and its legacy
  name:
    name part: Rochberg, Francesca
    name part: 1952-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxii, 445 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
  table of 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.
  note: by Francesca Rochberg.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
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  subject:
    topic: Astrology, Assyro-Babylonian
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy, Assyro-Babylonian
  subject:
    topic: Omens
    geographic: Iraq
    geographic: Babylonia
  subject:
    topic: Horoscopes
    geographic: Iraq
    geographic: Babylonia
  subject:
    topic: Akkadian language
    genre: Texts
  subject:
    topic: Cuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy, Ancient
  subject:
    topic: Science
    geographic: Greece
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Science
    geographic: Rome
    topic: History
  classification: BF1714.A86 R64 2010
  classification: 133.5/9235
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Ancient magic and divination ; 6
  identifier: 9789004183896 (hard cover : alk. paper)
  identifier: 9004183892 (hard cover : alk. paper)
  identifier: 2010002805
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 100126
    record change date: 20151201152258.0
    record identifier: in00002575268