Francesca Rochberg, "An Ancient Celestial Empire of Benevolent Knowledge", in: John Steele and Mathieu Ossendrijver (Eds.), Studies on the Ancient Exact Sciences in Honour of Lis Brack-Bernsen, Berlin: Edition Topoi, 2017, 233–260
Abstract
This paper deals with the concept of anomaly in cuneiform knowledge, looking mainly
at the principles of divinatory texts concerning norms and anomalies in ominous signs.
I consider here one way in which the system of divinatory knowledge was consistent with
early Babylonian approaches to knowledge of the heavens.
Published In
John Steele and Mathieu Ossendrijver (Eds.), Studies on the Ancient Exact Sciences in Honour of Lis Brack-Bernsen, Berlin: Edition Topoi, 2017