In the Path of the Moon: Babylonian Celestial Divination and Its Legacy by Francesca Rochberg
In the Path of the Moon: Babylonian Celestial Divination and Its Legacy
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Francesca Rochberg
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In the Path of the Moon: Babylonian Celestial Divination and Its Legacy

Studies in Ancient Magic and Divination

Francesca Rochberg

445 pages • missing pub info (view editions)

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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 bound...

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