Research Catalog

Title

Divination and interpretation of signs in the ancient world / edited by Amar Annus ; with contributions by Amar Annus ... [et al.].

Publication

Chicago, Ill. : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2010.

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Additional Authors

Annus, Amar

Description

viii, 351 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Oriental Institute seminars, 1559-2944 ; no. 6

Uniform Title

University of Chicago Oriental Institute seminars no. 6.

Subject

• To 1500
• Omens > History > To 1500 > Congresses
• Divination > History > To 1500 > Congresses
• Vergöttlichung
• Hermeneutik
• Altertum
• Orient

Genre/Form

• Congress
• Conference papers and proceedings
• History
• Congresses (form)
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• Proceedings from the fifth annual University of Chicago Oriental Institute Seminar, held March 6-7, 2009.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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. 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.

ISBN

• 9781885923684
• 1885923686

LCCN

^^2009943156

OCLC

• 491909201
• SCSB-10766799

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library