The historical sections of the astronomical diaries in context: developments in a late babylonian scientific text corpus
The article addresses developments within the Astronomical Diaries, as regards their formal structure and the content of their historical sections, with a particular emphasis on ominous references. Although both the total number and length of historical sections increased significantly over time, th...
| Published in: | Iraq |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2014
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Iraq
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| Further subjects: | B
Omens
B Observational astronomy B Diaries B Hunger B Astrology B Selenology B Astronomical research B City districts |
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| Summary: | The article addresses developments within the Astronomical Diaries, as regards their formal structure and the content of their historical sections, with a particular emphasis on ominous references. Although both the total number and length of historical sections increased significantly over time, the number of ominous references declined. A relationship can be posited between this development and on-going changes in the prevailing scientific worldview in first millennium B.C. Babylonia. The Diaries were deeply embedded in Babylonian traditions of knowledge production, rendering untenable assessments that deny any impact of Babylonian science of divination on them; at the same time, a characterization of the Diaries as a kind of database for diviners falls equally short. |
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| ISSN: | 2053-4744 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Iraq
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0021088900000462 |