This is a long and detailed review of the papers published in honor of Francesca Rochberg: Review of the following chapters: 1 Where Next for “Ancient Science”? 1 G.E.R. Lloyd 2 Crow Omens in Mesopotamia 15 Ann Kessler Guinan 3 Old Signs in New Dress? On the Meaning of Inanna’s Symbol as Sign and “Presence” in Early Babylonian Divination 26 Abraham Winitzer 4 Material, Constellation, Image, God: The Fate of the Chosen Bull according to kar 50 and Duplicates 58 Alan Lenzi 5 A Late Babylonian Compilation Concerning Ritual Timing and Materia Medica 97 Matthew Rutz 6 bm 40187: A Birthnote for Two Named Individuals 113 M. Willis Monroe 7 Converging Fortunes—Links between Celestial and Intestinal Divination 120 Ulla Koch 8 Sumerian Divination 148 C. Jay Crisostomo 9 The Form and History of a Babylonian Prayer to Nabû 169 Tzvi Abusch 10 Translation in the Elevation of Ištar 183 Niek Veldhuis 11 Judean Scribalism, Documentary Epistemology, and the Name 207 aישׂראל Jeffrey L. Cooley 12 Dating eae. When was the Astrological Series Enūma Anu Ellil Created? 253 Nils P. Heeßel 13 Bricoleurs in Babylonia: The Scribes of Enūma Anu Enlil 264 Eduardo A. Escobar and Laurie E. Pearce 14 The Date of the Accession of Nabonidus to the Throne of Babylon: A Reappraisal of the Evidence 287 Grant Frame 15 Intercalary Months in Achaemenid Elamite Administrative Documents from Persepolis 296 Matthew W. Stolper 16 The Importance of Experts: Agents in the Transfer of Astral Knowledge between Hellenistic Mesopotamia and the Greek- speaking World 317 Zoë Misiewicz 17 Diodorus on the Chaldeans 333 Alexander Jones and John Steele 18 Observing Eclipses: An Optical Question in Problemata 15.11 353 Alan C. Bowen 19 Chaldeans on the Nile: Two Egyptian Astronomical Procedure Texts with Babylonian Systems A1 and A2 for Mercury 382 Mathieu Ossendrijver and Andreas Winkler 20 Clever Machines and the Gods Who Make Them: The Antikythera Mechanism and the Ancient Imagination 420 Daryn Lehoux
Recensione a C.J. Crisostomo et al., “The Scaffolding of Our Thoughts”: Essays on Assyriology and the History of Science in Honor of Francesca Rochberg / Verderame, Lorenzo. - In: AESTIMATIO. - ISSN 1549-4489. - 2:2(2022), pp. 115-133.
Recensione a C.J. Crisostomo et al., “The Scaffolding of Our Thoughts”: Essays on Assyriology and the History of Science in Honor of Francesca Rochberg
Lorenzo Verderame
2022
Abstract
This is a long and detailed review of the papers published in honor of Francesca Rochberg: Review of the following chapters: 1 Where Next for “Ancient Science”? 1 G.E.R. Lloyd 2 Crow Omens in Mesopotamia 15 Ann Kessler Guinan 3 Old Signs in New Dress? On the Meaning of Inanna’s Symbol as Sign and “Presence” in Early Babylonian Divination 26 Abraham Winitzer 4 Material, Constellation, Image, God: The Fate of the Chosen Bull according to kar 50 and Duplicates 58 Alan Lenzi 5 A Late Babylonian Compilation Concerning Ritual Timing and Materia Medica 97 Matthew Rutz 6 bm 40187: A Birthnote for Two Named Individuals 113 M. Willis Monroe 7 Converging Fortunes—Links between Celestial and Intestinal Divination 120 Ulla Koch 8 Sumerian Divination 148 C. Jay Crisostomo 9 The Form and History of a Babylonian Prayer to Nabû 169 Tzvi Abusch 10 Translation in the Elevation of Ištar 183 Niek Veldhuis 11 Judean Scribalism, Documentary Epistemology, and the Name 207 aישׂראל Jeffrey L. Cooley 12 Dating eae. When was the Astrological Series Enūma Anu Ellil Created? 253 Nils P. Heeßel 13 Bricoleurs in Babylonia: The Scribes of Enūma Anu Enlil 264 Eduardo A. Escobar and Laurie E. Pearce 14 The Date of the Accession of Nabonidus to the Throne of Babylon: A Reappraisal of the Evidence 287 Grant Frame 15 Intercalary Months in Achaemenid Elamite Administrative Documents from Persepolis 296 Matthew W. Stolper 16 The Importance of Experts: Agents in the Transfer of Astral Knowledge between Hellenistic Mesopotamia and the Greek- speaking World 317 Zoë Misiewicz 17 Diodorus on the Chaldeans 333 Alexander Jones and John Steele 18 Observing Eclipses: An Optical Question in Problemata 15.11 353 Alan C. Bowen 19 Chaldeans on the Nile: Two Egyptian Astronomical Procedure Texts with Babylonian Systems A1 and A2 for Mercury 382 Mathieu Ossendrijver and Andreas Winkler 20 Clever Machines and the Gods Who Make Them: The Antikythera Mechanism and the Ancient Imagination 420 Daryn LehouxI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
