Old Babylonian Extispicy
Author: Ulla Jeyes
Publisher: Peeters
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13:
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Magic and Divination in the Ancient World
Author: Leda Ciraolo
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-10-01
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9004497366
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Ancient Babylonian Medicine
Author: Markham J. Geller
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2015-07-21
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 1119062543
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUtilizing a great variety of previously unknown cuneiform tablets, Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice examines the way medicine was practiced by various Babylonian professionals of the 2nd and 1st millennium B.C. Represents the first overview of Babylonian medicine utilizing cuneiform sources, including archives of court letters, medical recipes, and commentaries written by ancient scholars Attempts to reconcile the ways in which medicine and magic were related Assigns authorship to various types of medical literature that were previously considered anonymous Rejects the approach of other scholars that have attempted to apply modern diagnostic methods to ancient illnesses
Babylonian Liver Omens
Author: Ulla Susanne Koch
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 602
ISBN-13: 9788772896205
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Conditional Structures in Mesopotamian Old Babylonian
Author: Eran Cohen
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2012-10-08
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1575066807
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume examines conditional structures in Old Babylonian from a linguistic point of view, drawing on a corpus of letters, law collections, and omens. All of the conditional patterns are provided with a syntactic characterization, so that each conditional sequence is differentiated from all other potential sequences. The volume includes detailed discussion about the values of various verbal and other predicative forms in the conditional structures occurring in the corpus, the differences between superficially similar conditional patterns, and the functions of the various conditional patterns. Many traditionally difficult points are treated and given suitable solutions. The concluding sections of each chapter include linguistic glosses and more general discussions that provide linguistic typologists a window onto the conditional system of Old Babylonian.
Neo-Assyrian and Greek Divination in War
Author: Krzysztof Ulanowski
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-10-20
Total Pages: 588
ISBN-13: 9004429395
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNeo-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.
Babylonian Divinatory Texts Chiefly in the Schøyen Collection
Author: A. R. George
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781934309476
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTransliteration, 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.
Divination in Ancient Israel and Its Near Eastern Environment
Author: Frederick H. Cryer
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 1994-01-01
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 1850753539
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEarly Mesopotamian Divination Literature
Author: Abraham Winitzer
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-07-03
Total Pages: 511
ISBN-13: 9004347003
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Early Mesopotamian Divination Literature: Its Organizational Framework and Generative and Paradigmatic Characteristics, Abraham Winitzer provides a detailed study of the Akkadian Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1600 BC) omen collections stemming from extispicy, the most significant Mesopotamian divination technique for most of that civilization’s history. Paying close attention to these texts’ organizational structure, Winitzer details the mechanics responsible for their origins and development, and highlights key characteristics of a conceptual framework that helped reconfigure Mesopotamian divination into a literature in line with significant, new forms of literary expression from the same time. This literature, Winitzer concludes, represents an early form of scientific reasoning that began to appreciate the centrality of texts and textual interpretation in this civilization’s production, organization, and conception of knowledge.
Divination in the Ancient Near East
Author: Jeanette C. Fincke
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2014-05-05
Total Pages: 141
ISBN-13: 1575068796
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume contains a collection of revised papers given in the workshop Divination im Alten Orient that was convened on July 22, 2008, as part of the 54th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale in Würzburg. The aim of this workshop was to bring together Assyriologists and Hittitologists in order to present and discuss the divination methods of their respective fields, most of which had not been studied until recently. The large audience that attended the workshop confirmed how wide is the interest in this subject.
