The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient Worldexplores the ways in which astronomical knowledge circulated between different communities of scho

Astronomical and astrological knowledge circulated in many ways in the ancient world: in the form of written texts and through oral communication; by the consci

This volume contains studies that explore the content and meaning of the Qumran manuscripts of the Aramaic Books of Enoch, the Book of Giants, and related liter

This book addresses the challenge of understanding human life. It compares our life experience with the attempts to grasp it by astrologers, eugenicists, psycho

This revealing work examines an approach from ancient astronomy to what was then a particularly important question, namely that of understanding the relationshi