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Akkadian language --- Astronomy, Assyro-Babylonian --- Akkadien (Langue) --- Astronomie assyro-babylonienne --- Texts --- Textes --- Astrologie assyro-babylonienne --- Calendrier assyro-babylonien --- Akkadien (langue) --- -Assyro-Babylonian astronomy --- Sterrenkunde. --- Waarnemingen. --- Astronomie. --- Babylonisch. --- Keilschrifttext. --- Histoire. --- Sources. --- Babylonian astronomy --- Chaldean astronomy --- Sources --- Astronomy [Assyro-Babylonian] --- -Sources

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Astronomy and astrology, or the astral sciences, played an enormous, if not a key role in the political and religious life of the Ancient Near East, and, later, of the Greek and Roman world. This is the first comprehensive and up-to-date account of the origins of the astral sciences in the Ancient Near East. Every type of Sumerian or Akkadian text dealing with descriptive or mathematical astronomy, including many individual tablets are thoroughly dealt with. All aspects, such as the history of discovery, reconstruction, and interpretation come to the fore, accompanied by a full bibliography. At that the reader will find descriptions of astronomical contents, an explanation of their scientific meaning and the place a given genre or tablet has in the development of astronomy both within the Mesopotamian culture and outside of it. Because celestial omens are intimately related to astronomy in Mesopotamian science, these are also discussed extensively. The material is arranged both chronologically and thematically, so as to help make Astral Sciences in Mesopotamia a reference work on the subject in its truest sense.

Astronomy, Assyro-Babylonian. --- Stars --- Sumerian language --- Akkadian language --- Astronomie assyro-babylonienne --- Etoiles --- Sumérien (Langue) --- Akkadien (Langue) --- Religious aspects --- Texts --- Aspect religieux --- Textes --- Iraq --- Irak --- History --- Histoire --- 52 <09> --- 52 <358> --- Astronomy, Assyro-Babylonian --- 520.935 --- Assyro-Babylonian astronomy --- Babylonian astronomy --- Chaldean astronomy --- Astronomie. Astrofysica. Ruimteonderzoek. Geodesie--Geschiedenis van ... --- Astronomie. Astrofysica. Ruimteonderzoek. Geodesie--Mesopotamië --- Sciences Astronomy History Ancient World Mesopotamia --- Sumérien (Langue) --- Astronomie. Astrofysica. Ruimteonderzoek. Geodesie--Geschiedenis van .. --- Astronomie. Astrofysica. Ruimteonderzoek. Geodesie--Geschiedenis van . --- Astronomie. Astrofysica. Ruimteonderzoek. Geodesie--Geschiedenis van

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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, Assyro-Babylonian. --- Astronomy, Assyro-Babylonian. --- Omens --- Horoscopes --- Akkadian language --- Cuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian. --- Philosophy, Ancient. --- Science --- Natural science --- Natural sciences --- Science of science --- Sciences --- Ancient philosophy --- Greek philosophy --- Philosophy, Greek --- Philosophy, Roman --- Roman philosophy --- Akkadian cuneiform inscriptions --- Astrology --- Portents --- Prodigies (Omens) --- Signs (Omens) --- Superstition --- Signs and symbols --- Assyro-Babylonian astronomy --- Babylonian astronomy --- Chaldean astronomy --- Assyro-Babylonian astrology --- History. --- Astrology, Assyro-Babylonian --- Astronomy, Assyro-Babylonian --- Cuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian --- Philosophy, Ancient --- Texts --- History --- Astrologie assyro-babylonienne --- Astronomie assyro-babylonienne --- Présages --- Akkadien (Langue) --- Inscriptions cunéiformes akkadiennes --- Philosophie ancienne --- Textes --- Histoire --- Texts. --- Omens - Iraq - Babylonia --- Horoscopes - Iraq - Babylonia --- Akkadian language - Texts --- Science - Greece - History --- Science - Rome - History