"This collection is a praiseworthy testament to the dedication, focus, and enterprise of a scholar without whose attention and efforts the field would be all the poorer. Rochberg's scholarship is both definitive and exemplary, and she poses and addresses general questions that are both lucid and evocative, with a characteristic flair and expertise. In this way, her work is an aid as well as an inducement to current and succeeding generations of Assyriologists and Classicists to further their studies on the intellectual cultures of the ancient Near East, the Mediterranean, and beyond, and to investigate more thoroughly their contributions, interaction, and legacy." - Clemency Montelle , University of Canterbury, Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol.133, no.2 (2013) "The volume offers food for thought, not just identifying particular ideas and elements that have Mesopotamian origins or discussing the nature of the Babylonian preoccupation with the celestial bodies, but raising questions of the transmission of cultural artefacts, which routes they may have followed, and how they were incorporated into a new religious and / or scientific context." - Ulla Susanne Koch , University of Freiburg, Orientalistische Literaturzeitung, vol.110, no.

6 (2015) "The collected essays in this volume, successive steps in an ordered path, constitute an invaluable contribution to a better understanding of Babylonian divination." - Lorenzo Verderame , "Sapienza" Università di Roma, Aestimatio 8 (2011).