Choice Reviews Online · 2005 · 202 citations · 98 references
HumanitiesAstronomyReligious StudiesAncient ReligionCosmologyTheologyAncient Near Eastern CivilizationsHistory Of ScienceMesopotamian HistoryMesopotamian ReligionBabylonian CivilizationBabylonian HistoryBabylonian ReligionMesopotamian CivilizationMesopotamian HistoriographyReligious Culture
Mesopotamian science is studied through its historiography, celestial divination practices, horoscopes, the work of scribes and scholars, and its classification as a scientific inquiry. The study examines sources of Babylonian horoscopes in astronomical texts and early astrological tradition. 1.
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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