عنوان

Divination and interpretation of signs in the ancient world /

(Number (ISBN

1885923686

(Number (ISBN

9781885923684

Number

b749361

Title Proper

Divination and interpretation of signs in the ancient world /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Amar Annus ; with contributions by Amar Annus [and others].

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Chicago, Ill. :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2010.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

viii, 351 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

26 cm.

Series Title

Oriental Institute seminars,

Volume Designation

no. 6

ISSN of Series

1559-2944 ;

Text of Note

"Revised versions of the papers read at the fifth annual University of Chicago Oriental Institute Seminar Science and Superstition : Interpretation of Signs in the Ancient World, which took place at March 6-7, 2009. The printed volume has a slightly different title, and it includes two papers from scholars who were invited to the seminar, but could not come ..."--Pref., p. vii.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references.

Text of Note

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. Heeßel -- 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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Title

Divination and interpretation of signs in the ancient world.

International Standard Book Number

1885923686

Divination-- History-- To 1500, Congresses.

Omens-- History-- To 1500, Congresses.

11.19 ancient religions: other.

15.51 Antiquity.

Altertum

Divination-- History-- To 1500, Congresses.

Divination.

Hermeneutik

Interpretatie.

Omen-- historia-- före 1500, konferenser.

Omens-- History-- To 1500, Congresses.

Omens.

Oudheid.

Spådomskonst-- historia-- före 1500, konferenser.

Tekens.

Vergoddelijking.

Vergöttlichung

Orient

7

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Class number

Class number

System Code

System Code

Annus, Amar.

Date of Transaction

20201204091800.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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