An edition of Divination and interpretation of signs in the ancient world
(2010)
Divination and interpretation of signs in the ancient world
by Amar Annus
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Congresses, Omens, Altertum, Hermeneutik, Divination, Vergöttlichung, History, Omen, Spådomskonst, Tekens, 11.19 ancient religions: other, Konferenser, Vergoddelijking, Interpretatie, Historia, 15.51 Antiquity, Oudheid, OrientPlaces
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Divination and interpretation of signs in the ancient world
2010, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
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Table of Contents
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.
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Proceedings from the fifth annual University of Chicago Oriental Institute Seminar, held March 6-7, 2009.
Includes bibliographical references.
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