Chapter 6 Babylonian Astronomy and Enoch: Some Comments from the Perspective of the History of Babylonian Astronomy

In: The Aramaic Books of Enoch and Related Literature from Qumran
Author:
John Steele
Search for other papers by John Steele in
Current site
Google Scholar
PubMed Close
Type:
Chapter
Pages:
108–137
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004696716_008

Purchase instant access (PDF download and unlimited online access):

$40.00
Add to Cart
Redeem Access Token
  • Collapse
  • Expand

The Aramaic Books of Enoch and Related Literature from Qumran

Proceedings of the International Online Conference Organized by the Center for the Study of Second Temple Judaism of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, in Cooperation with Enoch Seminar, 20–22 October 2020

Series:  Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, Volume: 216
Cover The Aramaic Books of Enoch and Related Literature from Qumran
E-Book ISBN:
9789004696716
Publisher:
Brill
Print Publication Date:
08 May 2024
Front Matter
Introduction Józef Tadeusz Milik and the Aramaic Books of Enoch from Qumran
Part 1 Philology and Linguistics
Part 2 Astronomical Book (4Q208–4Q211 and 1 Enoch 72–82)
Part 3 Book of the Watchers
Part 4 Related Literature
Back Matter

  • Albani, Matthias. Astronomie und Schöpfungsglaube: Untersuchungen zum astronomischen Henochbuch. Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1994.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation

  • Aaboe, Asger. “On the Babylonian Origin of Some Hipparchian Parameters.” Centaurus 4 (1955): 122–125.

  • Badalanova Geller, Florentina. 2 (Slavonic Apocalypse of) Enoch: Text and Context. Max- Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgechicht Preprint 410. Berlin: Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgechicht, 2010.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation

  • Ben-Dov, Jonathan. Head of All Years: Astronomy and Calendars at Qumran in their Ancient Context. Leiden: Brill, 2008.

  • Ben-Dov, Jonathan. “The 364-Day Year in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Jewish Pseudepigrapha.” Pages 69–105 in Calendars and Years II: Astronomy and Time in the Ancient and Medieval World. Edited by John M. Steele. Oxford: Oxbow, 2011.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation

  • Brack-Bernsen, Lis. “Goal-Year Tablets: Lunar Data and Predictions.” Pages 149–177 in Ancient Astronomy and Celestial Divination, ed. Noel M. Swerdlow. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1999.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation

  • Brack-Bernsen, Lis. “The ‘Days in Excess’ from MUL.APIN: On the ‘First Intercalation’ and ‘Water Clock’ Schemes from MUL.APIN.” Centaurus 47 (2005): 1–29.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation

  • Brentjes, Sonja, Alexander Fidora, and Matthias M. Tischles. “Towards a New Approach to Medieval Cross-Cultural Exchanges.” Journal of Transcultural Medieval Studies 1 (2014): 9–50.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation

  • Britton, John P. “Calendars, Intercalations, and Year-Lengths in Mesopotamian Astronomy.” Pages 115–132 in Calendars and Years: Astronomy and Time in the Ancient Near East. Edited by John M. Steele. Oxford: Oxbow, 2007.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation

  • Brown, David. Mesopotamian Planetary Astronomy-Astrology. Groningen: Styx, 2000.

  • Brown, David. “What Shaped our Corpuses of Astral and Mathematical Cuneiform Texts?” Pages 277–303 in Looking at it from Asia: The Processes that Shaped the Sources of History of Science. Edited by Florence Bretelle-Establet. Dordrecht: Springer, 2010.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation

  • Drawnel, Henryk. The Aramaic Astronomical Book (4Q208–4Q211) from Qumran: Text, Translation, and Commentary. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation

  • Duke, Dennis, and Matthew Goff. “The Astronomy of the Qumran Fragments 4Q208 and 4Q209.” DSD 21 (2014): 176–210.

  • Horowitz, Wayne. “Two New Ziqpu-star Texts and Stellar Circles.” Journal for Cuneiform Studies 46 (1994): 89–98.

  • Horowitz, Wayne. “The 360 and 364 Day Year in Ancient Mesopotamia.” Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society 24 (1996): 35–44.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation

  • Horowitz, Wayne. “The 364 Day Year in Mesopotamia, Again.” NABU 1998 (1998): 50.

  • Horowitz, Wayne. Mesopotamian Cosmic Geography. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1998.

  • Horowitz, Wayne, and Farouk N. H. al-Rawi. “Tablets from the Sippar Library IX. A Ziqpu-Star Planisphere.” Iraq 63 (2001): 171–181.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation

  • Hunger, Hermann. “Babylonischen Quellen für die Länge vin Tag und Nacht.” Res Orientalis 12 (1999): 129–136.

  • Hunger, Hermann. Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia. Volume V. Vienna: Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2001.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation

  • Hunger, Hermann. Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia. Volume VI. Vienna: Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2006.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation

  • Hunger, Hermann, and David Pingree. MUL.APIN: An Astronomical Compendium in Cuneiform. Horn: Berger & Söhne, 1989.

  • Hunger, Hermann, and David Pingree. Astral Sciences in Mesopotamia. Leiden: Brill, 1999.

  • Hunger, Hermann, and John M. Steele. The Babylonian Astronomical Compendium MUL.APIN. Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.

  • Koch, Johannes. “AO 6478, MUL.APIN und das 364 Tage-Jahr.” NABU 1996 (1996): 97–99.

  • Koch, Johannes. “Kannte man in Mesopotamien das 364 Tage-Jahr wirklich seit dem 7. Jarhundert v. Chr.?” NABU 1997 (1997): 111.

  • Koch, Ulla S. Mesopotamian Divination Texts: Conversing with the Gods. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2015.

  • Kugler, Franz X. Die Babylonische Mondrechnung. Freiburg: Herser’sche Verlagshandlung, 1900.

  • Misiewicz, Zoë. “Mesopotamian Lunar Omens in Justinian’s Constantinople.” Pages 350–395 in The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World. Edited by John M. Steele. Leiden: Brill, 2016.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation

  • Neugebauer, Otto. Astronomical Cuneiform Texts. London: Lund Humphries, 1955.

  • Neugebauer, Otto. A History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy. Berlin: Springer, 1975.

  • Neugebauer, Otto. “From Assyriology to Renaissance Art.” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 133 (1989): 391–403.

  • Nickelsburg, George W. E., and James C. VanderKam. 1 Enoch 2: A Commentary on the Book of 1 Enoch Chapters 37–82. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 2012.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation

  • Ossendrijver, Mathieu. Babylonian Mathematical Astronomy: Procedure Texts. Berlin: Springer, 2012.

  • Pankenier, David W. “Did Babylonian Astrology Influence Early Chinese Astral Prognostication Xing Zhan Shu?” Early China 37 (2014): 1–13.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation

  • Pingree, David. “Legacies in Astronomy and Celestial Omens.” Pages 125–137 in The Legacy of Mesopotamia. Edited by Stephanie Dalley. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation

  • Popović, Mladen. “Networks of Scholars: The Transmission of Astronomical and Astrological Learning Between Babylonians, Greeks and Jews.” Pages 153–194 in Ancient Jewish Sciences and the History of Knowledge in Second Temple Literature. Edited by Jonathan Ben-Dov and Seth Sanders. New York, NY: New York University Press, 2014.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation

  • Ratzon, Eshbal. “The First Jewish Astronomers: Lunar Theory and Reconstruction of a Dead Sea Scroll.” Science in Context 30 (2017): 113–139.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation

  • Rawi, Farouk N. H. al-, and Andrew R. George. “Enūma Anu Enlil XIV and Other Early Astronomical Tables.” Archiv für Orientforschung 38–39 (1991–1992).

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation

  • Rochberg, Francesca. “The Brown School of the History of Science: Historiography and the Astral Sciences.” Pages 5–17 in The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World. Edited by John M. Steele. Leiden: Brill, 2016.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation

  • Rochberg, Francesca. Before Nature: Cuneiform Knowledge and the History of Science. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2016.

  • Sabra, Abdelhamid I. “The Appropriation and Subsequent Naturalization of Greek Science in Medieval Islam: A Preliminary Statement.” History of Science 25 (1987): 223–342.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation

  • Sachs Abraham, J., and Hermann Hunger. Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia. 3 vols. Vienna: Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1988–1996.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation

  • Steele, John M. “Eclipse Prediction in Mesopotamia.” Archive for History of Exact Sciences 54 (2000): 421–454.

  • Steele, John M. “Making Sense of Time: Observational and Theoretical Calendars.” Pages 331–341 in The Oxford Handbook of Cuneiform Cultures. Edited by Karen Radner and Eleanor Robson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation

  • Steele, John M. “Goal-Year Periods and their Use in Predicting Planetary Phenomena.” Pages 101–110 in The Empirical Dimension of Ancient Near Eastern Studies – Die empirische Dimension altorientalischer Forschungen. Edited by Gebhard Selz and Klaus Wagensonner. Vienna: LIT, 2011.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation

  • Steele, John M. “A Comparison of Astronomical Terminology, Methods and Concepts in China and Mesopotamia, With Some Comments on Claims for the Transmission of Mesopotamian Astronomy to China.” Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage 16 (2013): 250–260.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation

  • Steele, John M. “Shadow-Length Schemes in Babylonian Astronomy.” SCIAMVS 15 (2013): 3–39.

  • Steele, John M. “Late Babylonian ziqpu-star Lists: Written or Remembered Traditions of Knowledge?” Pages 123–151 in Traditions of Written Knowledge in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. Edited by Daliah Bawanypeck and Annette Imhausen. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2014.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation

  • Steele, John M. “Neugebauer’s Astronomical Cuneiform Texts and its Reception.” Pages 303–332 in A Mathematicians Journeys: Otto Neuegbauer and Modern Transformations of Ancient Science. Edited by Alexander Jones, Christine Proust, and John M. Steele. Dordrecht: Springer, 2016.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation

  • Steele, John M. Rising Time Schemes in Babylonian Astronomy. Dordrecht: Springer, 2017.

  • Steele, John M. “Babylonian and Assyrian Astral Science.” Pages 73–98 in The Cambridge History of Science, Volume 1: Antiquity. Edited by Alexander Jones and Liba Taub. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation

  • Steele, John M. “The Early History of the Astronomical Diaries.” Pages 19–52 in Keeping Watch at Babylon: The Astronomical Diaries in Context. Edited by Johannes Haubold, John Steele, and Kathryn Stevens. Leiden: Brill, 2019.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation

  • Steele, John M. “How Can We Incorporate Visual Evidence into the History of the Astral Sciences in Mesopotamia?” N.T.M. 28 (2020): 305–324.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation

  • Steele, John M. “The Continued Relevance of MUL.APIN in Late Babylonian Astronomy.” Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History 8 (2021): 259–277.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation

  • Steele, John M. “The Influence of Assyriology on the Study of Chinese Astronomy in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries.” Pages 17–44 in Overlapping Cosmologies in Asia. Edited by Bill M. Mak and Eric Huntington. Leiden: Brill, 2022.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation

Metrics

All Time Past 365 days Past 30 Days
Abstract Views 144 130 25
Full Text Views 3 3 2
PDF Views & Downloads 13 7 2