Francesca Rochberg

The Heavenly Writing

Divination, Horoscopy, and Astronomy in Mesopotamian Culture

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the various ways the heavens were studied and understood in ancient Mesopotamia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 737g
• ISBN-13: 9780521830102
• ISBN-10: 0521830109
• Artikelnr.: 21317261

Autorenporträt

Francesca Rochberg is Catherine and William L. Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is a recipient of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. She is the author of Babylonian Horoscopes (1998) and Aspects of Babylonian Celestial Divination: The Lunar Eclipse Tablets of Enuma Anu Enlil (1988).

Inhaltsangabe

1. The historiography of Mesopotamian science
2. Celestial divination in context
3. Mesopotamian genethlialogy: the Babylonian horoscopes
4. Sources for horoscopes in Babylonian 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.