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Babylonian Horoscopes

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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 si...
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  • 01 January 1998
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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.
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Price: $45.00
Pages: 164
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Imprint: The American Philosophical Society Press
Series: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
Publication Date: 01 January 1998
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780871698810
Format: Paperback
BISACs: BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Astrology / Horoscopes
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"[A]n extremely useful source for scholars interested in Babylonian astrology and its relation to Greek astrology…ancient astronomy…[and] the relation between astronomy and divination in the ancient world."
— J. M. Steele