AHMA Participating Faculty
Francesca Rochberg, PhD (University of Chicago, Oriental Institute)
Catherine and William L. Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Near Eastern Studies
Cuneiform studies, Akkadian, History of Science, ancient astronomy, astrology, and religion
rochberg@berkeley.edu
Selected Works:
1987 (editor) Language, Literature and History: Philological and Historical Studies Presented to Erica Reiner (New Haven, CT: American Oriental Society, American Oriental Series vol. 67, 1987).
1988 Aspects of Babylonian Celestial Divination: The Lunar Eclipse Tablets of Enuma Anu Enlil (Horn: Ferdinand Berger und Söhne, Archiv für Orientforschung Beiheft 22, 1988).
1998 Babylonian Horoscopes (Philadelphia:American Philosophical Society, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society Vol.88, Pt.1, 1998)
2004 The Heavenly Writing: Divination, Horoscopy and Astronomy in Mesopotamian Culture (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004), paperback edition (2007)
Recent Papers:
2006 “The Two Cultures and the Historical Perspective on Science as a Culture,” Forum for Public Policy http://www.forumonpublicpolicy.com/archive07/rochberg.pdf
2007 "Reckoning with the Divine Secrets: Natural Knowledge in Ancient Mesopotamia," in Peter Harrison, Ronald L. Numbers and Michael M. Shank (eds.), Wrestling with Nature: From Omens to Science (University of Chicago Press, in press).
2007 “The Stars Their Likenesses,” in Barbara Nevling Porter ed., What Was a Mesopotamian God? (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2007), pp.1-52.
2007 “Marduk in Heaven,” Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 97 (2007), pp.433-442.
2008 “‘By Means of Maps’: The Expression of Terrestrial and Celestial Order in Ancient Mesopotamia,” in Richard Talbert ed., A History of Cartography (University of Chicago Press, 2008)
2008 “The Heavens and the Gods in Ancient Mesopotamia:The View from a Polytheistic Cosmology,” in Beate Pongratz-Leisten ed., Reconsidering Revolutionary Monotheism (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, in press)
2008 “Inference, Conditionals, and Possibility in Ancient Mesopotamian Science,” Science in Context, Volume 22/1 (in press)
2008 “Babylonian Astronomy: The Hellenistic Transmission,” Mélanges de l’Université Saint-Joseph (in press)