Literatuur

• R.H. Allen , Starnames, Their Lore and Meaning, , [1990], all,

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• R.H. Allen , Starnames, Their Lore and Meaning, , [1990], 17, {Argo Navis / α Carinae} Some of the Rabbis have asserted -- and Delitsch in modern times -- that this star, and not Orion, was the H.asil of the Bible, arguing from the similarity in sound of that word to the Suhail of Arabia, and from other reasons fully explained, although not accepted, by Ideler; while, coincidently, there are able commentators who have thought that the Kesilim of Isaiah xiii, 10, now translated "Constellations", means the brightest stars, which often are those now referred to in use of the word Suhail. Delitzsch, in his commentary on the Book of Job, quotes much, from Wetzstein and others, of this identity of Canopus with H.asil, illustrating it with stellar stories and proverbs of the present-day Arabs of the Hauran, the patriarch's traditional home.
• F.G. Martinez , De Rollen van de Dode Zee 1, , [1994], 203, 1QSerek ha-Yahad kolom X
• Karel van der Toorn , Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible, , [1999], p. 202-204,
• - - , Algemeen, , R.H. van Gent, The Constellations and the Fixed Stars
• J.P. van de Giessen , Blog Aantekeningen bij de Bijbel, January 14, 2012,

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• John H. Rogers , Origins of the ancient constellations: 1. The Mesopotamian traditions, , [1998]; In the sky-map of ancient Babylon, constellations had two different roles, and thus developed into two overlapping traditions. One set of constellations represented the gods and their symbols; the other set represented rustic activities and provided a farming calendar. Many constellations were shared by the two traditions, but in some regions of sky there were alternative divine and rustic figures. These figures developed in stages from ~3200 BC to ~500 BC. Of the divine set, the most important (although the last to be finalised) were the twelve zodiacal signs, plus several associated animals (the serpent, crow, eagle, and fish), which were all transmitted to the classical Greek sky-map that we still use today. Conversely, the rustic constellations of workers and tools and animals were not transmitted to the West. However, a few of them may have survived in Bedouin Arab sky-maps of the first millennium AD.
• John H. Rogers , Origins of the ancient constellations: II. The Mediterranean traditions, , [1998]; The classical map of the sky, with the 48 Greek constellations, was derived from at least two different pre-Greek traditions. One tradition comprised the 12 signs of the zodiac, with several associated animal constellations, all of which developed over ~3200-500 BC in Mesopotamia in a religious or ritual tradition. These were taken over by the Greeks around 500 BC. However the other Babylonian constellations, their farming-calendar tradition, were not adopted. The other tradition was not Mesopotamian; it comprised large constellations which appear to date from ~2800 BC, probably from the Mediterranean region, devised for the navigators of ships. They include huge bears and serpents which marked the celestial pole and equator at that time, and probably the four anonymous giants which we know as Hercules, Ophiuchus, Bootes, and Auriga, as well as some of the large southern 'marine' constellations. The origins of some other constellations, including the Perseus tableau and various animals, are unknown; they may have been new creations of the Greeks. The Greeks assembled the classical sky-map from these different sources between 540-370 BC, but many of the familiar legends were only applied to the constellations later.
• Gary D. Thompson , An Annotated Bibliography Of Studies of Occidental Constellations and Star Names to the Classical Period, ,

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