1. Georges Contenau,
Everyday Life in Babylon and Assyria, trans. K. R. and A. R. Maxwell-Hyslop (London: Edward Arnold, 1954), pp. 64, 65.
2. Stewart C. Easton,
The Heritage of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Times to the Fall of Rome (New York: Rinehart and Company, 1956, I960).
3. For scholarly and popular discussions of ancient and modern astrology see Neugebauer,
Exact Sciences; Michel Gauquelin,
The Cosmic Clocks: From Astrology to a Modern Science (n.p., 1967); William J. Petersen,
“Astrology:Fad, Fact, or Fraud?” These Times, September 1, 1978, pp. 22~25; William J. Petersen, ed.,
Run Your Life by the Stars? (Wheaton, III.: Victor Books, 1972).
4. Petersen,
“Astrology.” 5. Contenau,
Everyday Life, pp. 281~295.
6. Gauquelin,
Cosmic Clocks, pp. 78~80.
7. Petersen,
“Astrology.” Compare a study of 50,000 persons in Gauquelin,
Cosmic Clocks, pp. 83~86.
8. Siegfried H. Horn,
“The Babylonian Chronicle and the Ancient Calendar of the Kingdom of Judah,” Andrews University Seminary Studies 5 (1967); 12~27. Edwin R. Thiele,
The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings, rev. ed. (Grand Rapids, Mich.:Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1965).