Greek horoscopes are made available for study. According to the authors, "About 60 horoscopes from the first five centuries of our era have been published since Young (1828) and Champollion-Figeac (1840) in the papyrological literature." They collected all horoscopes from this material, and added a few unpublished pieces that were put at their disposal, at the time this title originally printed in 1959.
Emerging for the first time in the 5th cent. B.C., horoscopes reflect the application of the idea and practice of celestial divination to the life of the individual. Whereas an omen focuses on a single astronomical phenomenon, the horoscope takes into account the positions of the moon, sun, and five planets at the moment of a birth. As such, Babylonian horoscopes presuppose the concept of the ecliptic and a methodology for obtaining the positions of heavenly bodies when they are not observable. This is the first complete edition of the extant cuneiform horoscopes -- with transcription and philological and astronomical commentary. This study offers a systematic description of the documents as a definable class of Babylonian astronomical/astrological texts.
Prepare for and plan the next 12 months with this essential astrological guide written by cosmic navigator, Gahl E. Sasson. This book is not just a collection of predictions, but a roadmap to navigate the year ahead. It provides an overview of significant astrological events, explores numerology, Tarot, history, Kabbalah, and offers guidance on harnessing Moon energy to manifest your dreams. Delve deep into a treasure trove of astrological insights, from the monumental transit of Pluto into Aquarius—a shift unseen since the days of the French Revolution—to the intricate dance of Mercury and Mars in retrograde, as well as methods to successfully navigate the eclipses. The book’s first part consists of a month-by-month list of pivotal dates and strategies to capitalize on them. The subsequent part decodes the significant astrological phenomena of 2024 and details the best dates and techniques to successfully manifest your New Year’s resolution. The final part specifies your unique mission for the year with specialized tools for each sign to utilize the peak days for love, finance, health, and creativity. Designed intuitively like a pilot’s flight manual, this guide ensures ease of reference and comprehension. This book is about self-empowerment; whether you’re an astrology aficionado or a starry-eyed beginner, “The Astrology of 2024” will be your compass to navigate the year ahead successfully.
Calendar and Community traces the development of the Jewish calendar from its origins until it reached, in the tenth century CE, its present form. Drawing on a wide range of often neglected sources - literary, documentary, epigraphic, Jewish, Graeco-Roman and Christian - it is the first comprehensive work to have been written on the subject.It will be useful not only to historians and epigraphists for the interpretation of early Jewish datings, but also as a historical study of early Judaism in its own right. Its main theme is that the Jewish calendar evolved in the course of this period from considerable diversity (with a variety of solar and lunar calendars) to unity (with the normative rabbinic calendar). The unification of the calendar was one element in the unification of Jewish identity in later antiquity and the earlymedieval world.
In On Both Sides of the Strait of Gibraltar Julio Samsó shows that astronomical sources, written in al-Andalus, the Maghrib and the Iberian Peninsula, belong to the same tradition and emphasizes the role of al-Andalus and the Iberian Peninsula in the transmission of Islamic astronomy to medieval Europe.
In Hellenistic Astronomy: The Science in Its Contexts, renowned scholars address questions about what the ancient science of the heavens was and the numerous contexts in which it was pursued.
