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the oldest book of the Bible in all probability, the constellations are distinguished and named. Mention is made of the “morning star” (Revelation 2:28; comp. Isaiah 14:12), the “seven stars” and “Pleiades,” “Orion,” “Arcturus,” the “Great Bear” (Amos 5:8; Job 9:9; 38:31), “the crooked serpent,” Draco (Job 26:13), the Dioscuri, or Gemini, “Castor and Pollux” (Acts 28:11). The stars were called “the host of heaven” (Isaiah 40:26; Jeremiah 33:22).

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