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050 00 $aBF1777$b.D58 2010
245 00 $aDivination and interpretation of signs in the ancient world /$cedited by Amar Annus ; with contributions by Amar Annus ... [et al.].
260 $aChicago, Ill. :$bOriental Institute of the University of Chicago,$c2010.
300 $aviii, 351 p. :$bill. ;$c26 cm.
490 1 $aOriental Institute seminars,$x1559-2944 ;$vno. 6
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
500 $aProceedings from the fifth annual University of Chicago Oriental Institute Seminar, held March 6-7, 2009.
505 0 $aOn 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.
650 0 $aOmens$xHistory$yTo 1500$vCongresses.
650 0 $aDivination$xHistory$yTo 1500$vCongresses.
650 07 $aVergöttlichung.$2swd
650 07 $aHermeneutik.$2swd
650 07 $aAltertum.$2swd
651 7 $aOrient.$2swd
700 1 $aAnnus, Amar.
830 0 $aUniversity of Chicago Oriental Institute seminars ;$vno. 6.