Science in Qumran Aramaic Texts

Born 1947; 1972 MA Eötvös Loránd University Budapest; 1984 PhD Oriental Institute St. Petersburg (Leningrad); 1993-2017 Professor of Hebrew Studies and Ancient History at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University; 2002 Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of the Sciences; 2004 member of the St. Stephen Academy of Sciences; 2000-06 Dean of the Faculty of Humanities; since 2017 Professor emerita.

• Ida Fröhlich: Introduction- Markham J. Geller: "Secular" Science in Mesopotamia - Réka Esztári/Ádám Vér: "The Script of God" - Daniel 5:25 in the Light of Mesopotamian Omen Literature - Andrew B. Perrin: Symptoms and Symbols, Prayers and Portents. Diagnostic Physiognomy and the Diviner in the Aramaic Prayer of Nabonidus (4Q242) - Amar Annus: The Heavenly Counterpart of Adapa and Enoch in Babylonia and Israel - Helen R. Jacobus: How 4QAstronomical Enoch a-b (4Q208-209) Transformed Elements of Late Babylonian Magical Hemerological Texts into a Synchronistic Calendar - Jonathan Ben-Dov: Jewish Aramaic Science and Mythology: Babylonian or Levantine Heritage?- Tupá Guerra: Writing Science, Writing Magic: Possible Functions for the Act of Writing. Scientific Knowledge Reflected in 4Q560 - Henryk Drawnel: Enoch at the Ends of the Earth: Horizon-Based Astronomy and the Stars in 1 Enoch 33-36 - Nóra Dávid: "From there I traveled to another place." (1QEn passim). Geography in 1 Enoch 20-32 - Siam Bhayro/Anne Burberry: The Provenance and Purpose of the Genesis Apocryphon - Ida Fröhlich: Authorizing Knowledge: Magical Healing and the Watchers' Tradition in Qumran