In contrast to divination, astrology does not seem to have made much impression on the Hebrews and definite references in the Bible are scanty.

From Babylonia it passed to Greece (without, however, exerting any particular influence upon Greek medicine).

Our own language is rich in words of astral significance derived from the Greek, e.g., disaster.
The introduction of astrology into Europe has a passing interest.
Apparently the Greeks had made important advances in astronomy before coming in contact with the Babylonians,--who, in all probability, received from the former a scientific conception of the universe.

"In Babylonia and Assyria we have astrology first and astronomy afterwards, in Greece we have the sequence reversed--astronomy first and astrology afterwards" (Jastrow).( 18) (18) M.Jastrow: Aspects of Religious Belief and Practice in Babylonia and Assyria, New York, 1911, p.

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It is surprising to learn that, previous to their contact with the Greeks, astrology as relating to the individual--that is to say, the reading of the stars to determine the conditions under which the individual was born--had no place in the cult of the Babylonians and Assyrians.