Divination As Science

Author : Jeanette C. Fincke
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 47,8 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.

Author : Richard Bradshaw
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1530845726

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The Universal Way of Cartomancy by Richard Bradshaw Pdf

How to use playing cards for divination

Author : Noel M. Swerdlow
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0262194228

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Ancient Astronomy and Celestial Divination by Noel M. Swerdlow Pdf

This volume presents recent work on Babylonian celestialdivination and on the Greek inheritors of the Babyloniantradition.In the ancient world, the collection and study of celestial phenomena and the intepretation of their prophetic significance, especially as applied to kings and nations, were closely related sciences carried out by the same scholars. Both ancient sources and modern research agree that astronomy and celestial divination arose in Babylon. Only in the late nineteenth century, however, did scholars begin to identify and decipher the original Babylonian sources, and the process of understanding those sources has been long and difficult. This volume presents recent work on Babylonian celestial divination and on the Greek inheritors of the Babylonian tradition. Both philological and mathematical work are included. The essays shed new light on all of the known textual sources, including the omen series Enuma Anu Enlil, which contains omens from as far back as the early second or even third millennium, and the earliest personal horoscopes, from about 400 B.C., as well as the Astronomical Diaries, ephemerides, and other observational and mathematical texts. One essay concerns astronomical papyri that confirm the extensive transmission of Babylonian methods into Greek; a study of Ptolemy's lunar theory suggests that Ptolemy relied more on his own observations than previously thought; and an analysis of Theon's commentary on Ptolemy's Handy Tables shows that Theon explicated their meaning both conscientiously and competently.ContributorsAsger Aaboe, Alan C. Bowen, Lis Brack-Bernsen, John P. Britton, Bernard R. Goldstein, Gerd Graßhoff, Hermann Hunger, Alexander Jones, Erica Reiner, F. Rochberg, N. M. Swerdlow, Anne Tihon, C. B. F. Walker

Author : Richard Furnald Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : STANFORD:36105001759658

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Prelude to Science by Richard Furnald Smith Pdf

Author : Gabriel Levy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317543459

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Judaic Technologies of the Word by Gabriel Levy Pdf

Judaic Technologies of the Word argues that Judaism does not exist in an abstract space of reflection. Rather, it exists both in artifacts of the material world - such as texts - and in the bodies, brains, hearts, and minds of individual people. More than this, Judaic bodies and texts, both oral and written, connect and feed back on one another. Judaic Technologies of the Word examines how technologies of literacy interact with bodies and minds over time. The emergence of literacy is now understood to be a decisive factor in religious history, and is central to the transformations that took place in the ancient Near East in the first millennium BCE. This study employs insights from the cognitive sciences to pursue a deep history of Judaism, one in which the distinctions between biology and culture begin to disappear.

Author : Frederick H. Cryer
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781850753537

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Divination in Ancient Israel and Its Near Eastern Environment by Frederick H. Cryer Pdf

Author : Olu Longe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Computer science
ISBN : 9781212977

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Ifá Divination and Computer Science by Olu Longe Pdf

Author : Michael Lackner,Zhao Lu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-20
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9789004514263

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Handbook of Divination and Prognostication in China by Michael Lackner,Zhao Lu Pdf

The first book that systematically explores the manifold aspects of divination and prognostication in traditional and modern China.

Author : Krzysztof Ulanowski
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 45,6 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 : Patrick Curry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317149019

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Divination by Patrick Curry Pdf

Divination is any ritual and its associated tradition performed in order to ask a more-than-human intelligence for guidance. A universal human practice, it has received surprisingly little academic attention. This interdisciplinary collection by leading scholars in the field is dedicated to fascinating new insights into divination and oracles arising from recent work in anthropology, religious studies, history and classical studies. Central importance is given to the practical and theoretical perspectives of diviners as well as scholars of divination; several contributors are both. This book explores philosophical issues such as the nature of divinatory intelligence, the relationship between divinatory and metaphorical truth, the primacy of ontology over epistemology, the importance of reflexivity in scholarly studies of divination, and astrology as the principal Western form of divination. The ethnographic and historical examples range from contemporary Nigeria, urban Cuba, Mayan Guatemala and the shamanic cultures of the circumpolar Arctic to classical Greece and ancient Judea.

Author : Joseph Grasset
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-08
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781528767828

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The Marvels Beyond Science - Being a Record of Progress Made in the Reduction of Occult Phenomena to a Scientific Basis by Joseph Grasset Pdf

Spiritualism is a religious movement based on the belief that spirits of the deceased exist and are able to communicate with living people. It began to develop in the 1840s and had reached its peak of popularity by the 1920s, particularly in English-speaking countries. This vintage book contains a record of the progress made in the explanation of occult phenomenon through scientific reasoning by Joseph Grasset (1849 – 1918), a French parapsychological investigator and neurologist. Contents include: “Definitions—Historical Account—Difficulties in Making this Survey”, “A Definition of Occultism and Occult Phenomena”, “Historical Account”, “The Period of Animal Magnetism”, “The Period of Spiritualism”, “The Present Period”, “Occultism the Promised Land of Science”, “What Occultism is Not”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with the original text and artwork.

Author : Lynn Thorndike
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0231087942

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A History of Magic and Experimental Science: The first thirteen centuries of our era by Lynn Thorndike Pdf

Vols. 1-2 concern the first 13 centuries of the Christian era; vols. 3-4, the 14th and 15th centuries, vols. 5-6, the 16th century, and vols. 7-8, the 17th century.

Author : Susanne William Rasmussen
Publisher : L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 8882652408

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Public Portents in Republican Rome by Susanne William Rasmussen Pdf

The Romans were a superstitious bunch with public portents forming an integral role in most political and social ceremonies and rituals. This detailed analysis of prodigia (unusual events that were reported to the Senate who then proclaimed that event as an unfavourable portent) does not look at what these events reveal about Roman psychology but, instead, focuses on the sociological consequences of this complete integration of politics and religion during the Republican period. Much of the book comprises a table of prodigies, gathered from primary sources, notably Livy's Ab urbe condita and Julius Obsequens' Ab anno-urbis conditae DV prodigium liber . This data is supported by detailed discussions of Cicero and public divination, the relationship between divination and science, the types of portents and the nature of religio-politics. Danish summary.

Author : Eric Aaron Johnson
Publisher : Rookwood Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Alienation (Social psychology) in literature
ISBN : 0963435515

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Knowledge and Society by Eric Aaron Johnson Pdf

Author : Ian O. Angell,Dionysios Demetis
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781408138915

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Science's First Mistake by Ian O. Angell,Dionysios Demetis Pdf

The purpose of the book is to deconstruct the process of knowledge discovery and theory construction on the basis of the four concepts mentioned below, and thereby to discuss the circumstances under which all scientific premises come to be constructed. The implications for theory and method are discussed against four primary and intrinsically interrelated concepts that should be of immediate interest to all scientific disciplines: namely observation, paradox, delusion, and most importantly self-reference. The book then reflects on various modes of theory-construction and -utilization. Grounded in the tradition of second-order cybernetics, the concept of self-reference is used in the context of systems theory in order to examine the mode in which observation, paradox and delusion become 'structurally coupled' with cognition. This has wide-ranging implications for not only the discovery of knowledge in itself, but also various expressions of knowledge, be they framed by reductionism or causality, and even those grandiosely claiming to approach a form of Grand Unification (as in Physics). It eventually concludes that so-called 'rigour' is merely reinforced self-reference, imposed by the power that comes with the utility delivered by the self-reference.Rooted in information systems analysis this fresh and audacious examination of knowledge discover and theory construction makes an important contribution to the understanding of how we employ scientific method.