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Babylonian Horoscopes

1998 Foreign Language Study
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Release : 1998
Genre : Foreign Language Study
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Book Synopsis Babylonian Horoscopes by : Francesca Rochberg

Download or read book Babylonian Horoscopes written by Francesca Rochberg. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emerging for the first time in the 5th cent. B.C., horoscopes reflect the application of the idea and practice of celestial divination to the life of the individual. Whereas an omen focuses on a single astronomical phenomenon, the horoscope takes into account the positions of the moon, sun, and five planets at the moment of a birth. As such, Babylonian horoscopes presuppose the concept of the ecliptic and a methodology for obtaining the positions of heavenly bodies when they are not observable. This is the first complete edition of the extant cuneiform horoscopes -- with transcription and philological and astronomical commentary. This study offers a systematic description of the documents as a definable class of Babylonian astronomical/astrological texts.

In the Path of the Moon

2010-05-11 History
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Release : 2010-05-11
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 610/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis In the Path of the Moon by : Francesca Rochberg

Download or read book In the Path of the Moon written by Francesca Rochberg. This book was released on 2010-05-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. "The collected essays in this volume, successive steps in an ordered path, constitute an invaluable contribution to a better understanding of Babylonian divination." Lorenzo Verderame, "Sapienza" Università di Roma "The reader interested in the multifaceted presentation of the problems related to the explanation of Babylonian celestial divination and well equipped with the knowledge of Akkadian will certainly be rewarded by the study of Rochberg’s latest publication." Henryk Drawnel, SDB

Astrology

2010-08-15 Body, Mind & Spirit
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Release : 2010-08-15
Genre : Body, Mind & Spirit
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Book Synopsis Astrology by : P. G. Maxwell-Stuart

Download or read book Astrology written by P. G. Maxwell-Stuart. This book was released on 2010-08-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of astrology through the ages.

Mesopotamian Astrology

1995 History
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Release : 1995
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 870/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Mesopotamian Astrology by : Ulla Susanne Koch

Download or read book Mesopotamian Astrology written by Ulla Susanne Koch. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended to serve as a general introduction to Mesopotamian astrology, both its outward phenomena and its inner structure.

Melothesia in Babylonia

2014-11-10 Religion
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Release : 2014-11-10
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis Melothesia in Babylonia by : Markham Judah Geller

Download or read book Melothesia in Babylonia written by Markham Judah Geller. This book was released on 2014-11-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph begins with a puzzle: a Babylonian text from late 5th century BCE Uruk associating various diseases with bodily organs, which has evaded interpretation. The correct answer may reside in Babylonian astrology, since the development of the zodiac in the late 5th century BCE offered innovative approaches to the healing arts. The zodiac—a means of predicting the movements of heavenly bodies—transformed older divination (such as hemerologies listing lucky and unlucky days) and introduced more favorable magical techniques and medical prescriptions, which are comparable to those found in Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos and non-Hippocratic Greek medicine. Babylonian melothesia (i.e., the science of charting how zodiacal signs affect the human body) offers the most likely solution explaining the Uruk tablet.

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