Divination and interpretation of signs in the ancient world
| Weitere Verfasser: |
Annus, Amar.
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Chicago (Illinois) :
The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago,
2010.
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| Umfang/Format: |
viii, 351 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
University of Chicago Oriental Institute seminars
no. 6 |
| Inhalte/Bestandteile: | 1 Datensätze |
Inhaltsangabe:
- On the beginnings and continuities of omen sciences in the ancient world / Amar Annus
- "If P, then Q" : form and reasoning in Babylonian divination / Francesca Rochberg
- Greek philosophy and signs / James Allen
- Three strikes and you’re out! A view on cognitive theory and the first-millennium extispicy ritual / Ulla Susanne Koch
- Arousing images : the poetry of divination and the divination of poetry / Edward L. Shaughnessy
- The theory of knowledge and the practice of celestial divination / Niek Veldhuis
- Reading the tablet, the exta, and the body : the hermeneutics of cuneiform signs in Babylonian and Assyrian text commentaries and divinatory texts / Eckart Frahm
- "Sign, sign, everywhere a sign" : script, power, and interpretation in the ancient Near East / Scott B. Noegel
- The calculation of the stipulated term in extispicy / Nils P. Hee€el
- The divine presence and its interpretation in early Mesopotamian divination / Abraham Winitzer
- Physiognomy in ancient Mesopotamia and beyond : from practice to handbook / Barbara Böck
- On seeing and believing : liver divination and the era of warring states (II) / Seth F.C. Richardson
- Divination and oracles at the Neo-Assyrian palace : the importance of signs in royal ideology / Cynthia Jean
- Prophecy as a form of divination; divination as a form of prophecy / JoAnn Scurlock
- Traces of the omen series Šumma izbu in Cicero, De divinatione / John Jacobs
- Prophecy and omen divination : two sides of the same coin / Martti Nissinen.
