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The art of divination in the ancient Near East : reading the signs of heaven and earth
- Title
- The art of divination in the ancient Near East : reading the signs of heaven and earth / Stefan M. Maul ; translated by Brian McNeil and Alexander Johannes Edmonds.
- Author
- Maul, Stefan M.
- Publication
- Waco, Texas : Baylor University Press, [2018]
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xiii, 345 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Uniform Title
- Wahrsagekunst im Alten Orient. English
- Alternative Title
- Wahrsagekunst im Alten Orient.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Note
- Translated from the German.
- First published as : Die Wahrsagekunst im Alten Orient: Zeichen des Himmels und der Erde (Munich: Verlag C. H. Beck, 2013).
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contents
- Signs of Heaven and Earth -- Sacrifice and the Art of Divination -- Messages in Livers and Entrails: Extispicy's Essentials -- The Fine Art of Asking Questions -- An Option going cheap: The Inspection of Sacrificial Birds -- Divination "to Go" and Prognostication "on a Shoestring" -- From Meat Inspection to "Science": The Flourishing of the Babylonian Art of Extispicy -- New Constellations: The Inexorable Rise of Babylonian Astral Divination -- New Teachings on the Cosmos: The Interdisciplinarity of the Diviners -- At the Center of Power: Divination and Political Counseling -- On Prognostication as Sense and Nonsense.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-1714
- ISBN
- 9781481308595
- 1481308599
- LCCN
- 2018006486
- 40028628215
- OCLC
- 1035299188
- Author
- Maul, Stefan M., author.
- Title
- The art of divination in the ancient Near East : reading the signs of heaven and earth / Stefan M. Maul ; translated by Brian McNeil and Alexander Johannes Edmonds.
- Publisher
- Waco, Texas : Baylor University Press, [2018]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Added Author
- McNeil, Brian, translator.Edmonds, Alexander Johannes, translator.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40028628215
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-1714