Babylonian Liver Omens

Author : Ulla Susanne Koch
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 8772896205

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Babylonian Liver Omens by Ulla Susanne Koch Pdf

The Babylonians were famous even in their own time for their expertise in divination, and Koch-Westenholz suggests the lack of modern scholarship from the extensive written record is because the texts are dry, monotonous, and difficult to access and because divination is thought to be simple superstition not worth serious study. She makes a beginning on the accessibility problem by presenting three texts on interpreting sheep livers as the first of a projected complete series on the divinatory texts from the world's oldest extant general library. The edition is based on a catalogue, compiled by Ulla Jeyes as part of what was to be a collaboration on the project before Jeyes' untimely death, of the collections in the British Museum. The original inscriptions are followed by transcription and English translation. Tablets are illustrated in 48 photographic plates. Livers not included. Distributed in the US by ISBS. c. Book News Inc.

Author : Morris Jastrow
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547135906

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Babylonian-Assyrian Birth-Omens and Their Cultural Significance by Morris Jastrow Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Babylonian-Assyrian Birth-Omens and Their Cultural Significance" by Morris Jastrow. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Yoram Cohen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 396327042X

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The Babylonian Šumma Immeru Omens by Yoram Cohen Pdf

Author : Hermann Hunger,David Pingree
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-02
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9789004294134

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Astral Sciences in Mesopotamia by Hermann Hunger,David Pingree Pdf

Astronomy and astrology, or the astral sciences, played an enormous, if not a key role in the political and religious life of the Ancient Near East, and, later, of the Greek and Roman world. This is the first comprehensive and up-to-date account of the origins of the astral sciences in the Ancient Near East. Every type of Sumerian or Akkadian text dealing with descriptive or mathematical astronomy, including many individual tablets are thoroughly dealt with. All aspects, such as the history of discovery, reconstruction, and interpretation come to the fore, accompanied by a full bibliography. At that the reader will find descriptions of astronomical contents, an explanation of their scientific meaning and the place a given genre or tablet has in the development of astronomy both within the Mesopotamian culture and outside of it. Because celestial omens are intimately related to astronomy in Mesopotamian science, these are also discussed extensively. The material is arranged both chronologically and thematically, so as to help make Astral Sciences in Mesopotamia a reference work on the subject in its truest sense.

Author : Amar Annus
Publisher : Oriental Inst Publications Sales
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 1885923686

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Divination and Interpretation of Signs in the Ancient World by Amar Annus Pdf

The concept of sign, a portent observed in the physical world, which indicates future events, is found in all ancient cultures, but was first developed in ancient Mesopotamian texts. This branch of Babylonian scientific knowledge extensively influenced other parts of the world, and similar texts written in Aramaic, Sanscrit, Sogdian, and other languages. The seminar will investigate how much do we know about the Babylonian theory and hermeneutics of omens, and the scope of their possible influences on other cultures and regions.

Author : Tammi J. Schneider
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802829597

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An Introduction to Ancient Mesopotamian Religion by Tammi J. Schneider Pdf

A fascinating look at ancient Middle Eastern religious belief and practice

Author : Albrecht Götze
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Akkadian language
ISBN : UVA:X000926352

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Old Babylonian omen texts by Albrecht Götze Pdf

Author : Jean MacIntosh Turfa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139536400

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Divining the Etruscan World by Jean MacIntosh Turfa Pdf

The Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar is a rare document of omens foretold by thunder. It long lay hidden, embedded in a Greek translation within a Byzantine treatise from the age of Justinian. The first complete English translation of the Brontoscopic Calendar, this book provides an understanding of Etruscan Iron Age society as revealed through the ancient text, especially the Etruscans' concerns regarding the environment, food, health and disease. Jean MacIntosh Turfa also analyzes the ancient Near Eastern sources of the Calendar and the subjects of its predictions, thereby creating a picture of the complexity of Etruscan society reaching back before the advent of writing and the recording of the calendar.

Author : Krzysztof Ulanowski
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9789004429390

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Neo-Assyrian and Greek Divination in War by Krzysztof Ulanowski Pdf

Neo-Assyrian and Greek Divination in War is about practices which enabled humans contact the divine. These relations, especially in difficult times of military conflict, could be crucial in deciding the fate of individuals, cities, dynasties or even empires.

Author : Morris Jastrow
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1332869939

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Babylonian-Assyrian Birth-Omens, and Their Cultural Significance (Classic Reprint) by Morris Jastrow Pdf

Excerpt from Babylonian-Assyrian Birth-Omens, and Their Cultural Significance See J astrow, Religion II 120 sq. And, The Liver as the Seat of the Soul (toy Anniversary volume) 158 - 165. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : C.L. Crouch,Jonathan Stökl,Anna Elise Zernecke
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567446244

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Mediating Between Heaven and Earth by C.L. Crouch,Jonathan Stökl,Anna Elise Zernecke Pdf

This volume brings together experts in the study of ancient prayers and divination methods to analyse the variety of means by which human beings sought to communicate with their gods and by which the gods were seen to communicate with their worshippers. In a departure from previous scholarship, the volume brings together the study of prophecy, as an intuitive form of divination, with the study of technical methods of communication and other forms of institutionalised communication such as prayer. Such a format allows divine-human communication to be studied in both directions simultaneously: the means by which the divine communicates to human beings through divination, and the means by which human beings communicate with the divine through prayer. This new perspective on the study of divine-human-divine communication allows scholars to better appreciate the way in which communication and the relationship between heaven and earth was conceived in the ancient near East.

Author : Leda Jean Ciraolo,Jonathan Lee Seidel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9004124063

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Magic and Divination in the Ancient World by Leda Jean Ciraolo,Jonathan Lee Seidel Pdf

This collection of essays focuses on divination across the Ancient World from early Mesopotamia to late antiquity. The authors deal with the forms, theory and poetics of this important and still poorly understood ancient phenomenon.

Author : Dominique Charpin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226101590

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Writing, Law, and Kingship in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia by Dominique Charpin Pdf

Ancient Mesopotamia, the fertile crescent between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is now western Iraq and eastern Syria, is considered to be the cradle of civilization—home of the Babylonian and Assyrian empires, as well as the great Code of Hammurabi. The Code was only part of a rich juridical culture from 2200–1600 BCE that saw the invention of writing and the development of its relationship to law, among other remarkable firsts. Though ancient history offers inexhaustible riches, Dominique Charpin focuses here on the legal systems of Old Babylonian Mesopotamia and offers considerable insight into how writing and the law evolved together to forge the principles of authority, precedent, and documentation that dominate us to this day. As legal codes throughout the region evolved through advances in cuneiform writing, kings and governments were able to stabilize their control over distant realms and impose a common language—which gave rise to complex social systems overseen by magistrates, judges, and scribes that eventually became the vast empires of history books. Sure to attract any reader with an interest in the ancient Near East, as well as rhetoric, legal history, and classical studies, this book is an innovative account of the intertwined histories of law and language.

Author : A. R. George,Wilfred G. Lambert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Akkadian language
ISBN : 1934309478

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Babylonian Divinatory Texts Chiefly in the Schøyen Collection by A. R. George,Wilfred G. Lambert Pdf

Transliteration, translation, and commentary of new Mesopotamian divination prayers, extispicy texts, omen lists, and divinatory models. These texts extend over two millennia and come from many sites, including a previously unknown city.

Author : Jeanette C. Fincke
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781575064260

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Divination as Science by Jeanette C. Fincke Pdf

There is no doubt that Ancient Near Eastern divination is firmly rooted in religion, since all ominous signs were thought to have been sent by gods, and the invocation of omens was embedded in rituals. Nonetheless, the omen compendia display many aspects of a generally scientific nature. In their attempt to note all possible changes to the affected objects and to arrange their observations systematically for reference purposes, the scholars produced texts that resulted in a rather detailed description of the world, be it with respect to geography (the urban or rural environment on earth, or celestial and meteorological phenomena observed in the sky), biology (the outer appearance of the bodies of humans or animals, or the entrails of sheep), sociology (behavior of people) or others. Based on different divination methods and omen compendia, the question discussed during this workshop was whether the scholars had a scientific approach, presented as religion, or whether Ancient Near Eastern divination should be considered purely religious and that the term “science” is inappropriate in this context. The workshop attracted a large audience and lively discussion ensued. The papers presented in this volume reflect the focus of the sessions during the workshop and are likely to generate even more discussion, now that they are published.