The heavenly writing: divination, horoscopy, and astronomy in Mesopotamian culture

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2005-04-01otherChoice Reviews Online201 citationsclosed

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Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies Ancient Near East History Historical Astronomy and Related Studies

Abstract

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.

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