Contents

pp.：  9 – 10

List of Figures

pp.：  11 – 12

List of Tables

pp.：  13 – 14

Abbreviations

pp.：  15 – 18

Acknowledgments

pp.：  19 – 22

Preface

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Introduction

pp.：  25 – 42

Chapter One Fate and Divination in Mesopotamia

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Chapter Two New Evidence for the History of Astrology

pp.：  55 – 88

Chapter Three Canonicity in Cuneiform Texts

pp.：  89 – 108

Chapter Four The Assumed 29th Ahu Tablet of Enuma Anu Enlil

pp.：  109 – 136

Chapter Five TCL 6 13: Mixed Traditions in Late Babylonian Astrology

pp.：  137 – 158

Chapter Six Benefic and Malefic Planets in Babylonian Astrology

pp.：  159 – 166

Chapter Seven Elements of the Babylonian Contribution to Hellenistic Astrology

pp.：  167 – 190

Chapter Eight Babylonian Seasonal Hours

pp.：  191 – 212

Chapter Nine Babylonian Horoscopy: The Texts and Their Relations

pp.：  213 – 234

Chapter Ten Continuity and Change in Omen Literature

pp.：  235 – 246

Chapter Eleven The Babylonian Origins of the Mandaean Book of the Zodiac

pp.：  247 – 260

Chapter Twelve Scribes and Scholars: The Tupsar Enuma Anu Enlil

pp.：  261 – 280

Chapter Thirteen Lunar Data in Babylonian Horoscopes

pp.：  281 – 294

Chapter Fourteen A Babylonian Rising Times Scheme in Non-Tabular Astronomical Texts

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Chapter Fifteen Old Babylonian Celestial Divination

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Chapter Sixteen The Heavens and the Gods in Ancient Mesopotamia: The View from a Polytheistic Cosmology

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Chapter Seventeen A Short History of the Waters above the Firmament

pp.：  363 – 378

Chapter Eighteen Periodicities and Period Relations in Babylonian Celestial Sciences

pp.：  379 – 396

Chapter Nineteen Conditionals, Inference, and Possibility in Ancient Mesopotamian Science

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Chapter Twenty “If P, then Q”: Form and Reasoning in Babylonian Divination

pp.：  423 – 434

Chapter Twenty-One Divine Causality and Babylonian Divination

pp.：  435 – 448

Bibliography

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Index

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