The scaffolding of our thoughts : essays on Assyriology and the history of science in honor of Francesca Rochberg / edited by C. Jay Crisostomo, Eduardo A. Escobar, Terri Tanaka, Niek Veldhuis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Crisostomo, C. Jay, editor.

Escobar, Eduardo A., editor.

Tanaka, Terri, editor.

Veldhuis, Niek, editor.

Rochberg, Francesca, 1952- honouree.

Series:

Ancient magic and divination ; 13.

Ancient magic and divination, 1566-7952 ; volume 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science, Ancient.

Assyriology.

Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xx, 452 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

Summary:

Francesca Rochberg has for more than thirty-five years been a leading figure in the study of ancient science. Her foundational insights on the concepts of "science," "canon," "celestial divination," "knowledge," "gods," and "nature" in cuneiform cultures have demanded continual contemplation on the tenets and assumptions that underlie the fields of Assyriology and the History of Science. "The Scaffolding of Our Thoughts" honors this luminary with twenty essays, each reflecting on aspects of her work. Following an initial appraisal of ancient "science" by Sir Geoffrey Lloyd, the contributions in the first half explore practices of knowledge in Assyriological sources. The second half of the volume focuses specifically on astronomical and astrological spheres of knowledge in the Ancient Mediterranean.

Contents:

Publications of Francesca Rochberg

Where next for "ancient science"? / G.E.R. Lloyd

Crow omens in Mesopotamia / Ann Kessler Guinan

Old signs in new dress? : On the meaning of Inanna's symbol as sign and "presence" in OB divination / Abraham Winitzer

Material, constellation, image, God : the fate of the chosen bull according to kar 50 and duplicates / Alan Lenzi

A late Babylonian compilation concerning ritual timing and materia medica / Matthew Rutz

Bm 40187 : a birthnote for two named individuals / Willis Monroe

Converging fortunes-links between celestial and intestinal divination / Ulla Susanne Koch

Sumerian divination / Jay Crisostomo

The form and history of a Babylonian prayer to Nabu / Tzvi Abusch

Translation in the elevation of Istar / Niek Veldhuis

Judean scribalism, documentary epistemology, and the name / Jeffrey L. Cooley

Dating eae : when was the astrological series Enuma Anu Ellil created? / Nils P. Heebel

Bricoleurs in Babylonia : the scribes of Enuma Anu Enlil / Eduardo A. Escobar and Laurie E. Pearce

The date of the accession of Nabonidus to the throne of Babylon :a reappraisal of the evidence / Grant Frame

Intercalary months in Achaemenid Elamite administrative documents from Persepolis / Matthew W. Stolper

The importance of experts : agents in the transfer of astral knowledge between Hellenistic Mesopotamia and the Greek-speaking world / Zoe Misiewicz

Diodorus on the Chaldeans / Alexander Jones and John Steele

Observing eclipses : an optical question in problemata / Alan C. Bowen

Chaldeans on the Nile : two Egyptian astronomical procedure texts with Babylonian systems A1 and A2 for Mercury / Mathieu Ossendrijver and Andreas Winkler

Clever machines and the gods who make them : the Antikythera Mechanism and the ancient Imagination / Daryn Lehoux.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

Online version: Scaffolding of our thoughts.

ISBN:

9789004363373

9004363378

OCLC:

1023824063