In the Path of the Moon

Francesca Rochberg, Ph.D., University of Chicago, is Catherine and William Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She has published widely on Babylonian divination and science, including The Heavenly Writing: Divination, Horoscopy and Astronomy in Mesopotamian Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2004).

All those interested in cuneiform intellectual culture, Babylonian divination, astrology, and astronomy, as well as Assyriologists, Classicists, historians of Near Eastern and Mediterranean antiquity, and historians of science.

CONTENTS
Chapter One Fate and Divination in Mesopotamia
Chapter Two New Evidence for the History of Astrology
Chapter Three Canonicity in Cuneiform Texts
Chapter Four The Assumed 29th Aḫû Tablet of Enūma Anu Enlil
Chapter Five TCL 6 13: Mixed Traditions in Late Babylonian Astrology
Chapter Six Benefic and Malefic Planets in Babylonian Astrology
Chapter Seven Elements of the Babylonian Contribution to Hellenistic Astrology
Chapter Eight Babylonian Seasonal Hours
Chapter Nine Babylonian Horoscopy: The Texts and their Relations
Chapter Ten Continuity and Change in Omen Literature
Chapter Eleven The Babylonian Origins of the Mandaean Book of the Zodiac
Chapter Twelve Scribes and Scholars: The Ṭupšar Enūma Anu Enlil
Chapter Thirteen Lunar Data in Babylonian Horoscopes
Chapter Fourteen A Babylonian Rising Times Scheme in Non-Tabular Astronomical Texts
Chapter Fifteen Old Babylonian Celestial Divination
Chapter Sixteen The Heavens and the Gods in Ancient Mesopotamia: The View from a Polytheistic Cosmology
Chapter Seventeen A Short History of the Waters Above the Firmament
Chapter Eighteen Periodicities and Period Relations in Babylonian Celestial Sciences
Chapter Nineteen Conditionals, Inference, and Possibility in Ancient Mesopotamian Science
Chapter Twenty “If P, then Q”: Form and Reasoning in Babylonian Divination
Chapter Twenty-One Divine Causality and Babylonian Divination