Divination and interpretation of signs in the ancient world /

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Other Authors: Annus, Amar.

Format: Book

Language: English

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

Series: Oriental Institute Seminars, 6.
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Call Number: DS41 .C55 v.6

Table of Contents:
  • •Preface •Introduction •1. On the Beginnings and Continuities of Omen Sciences in the Ancient World •Section 1. Theories Of Divination and Signs •2. "If P, then Q": Form and Reasoning in Babylonian Divination •3. Greek Philosophy and Signs •4. Three Strikes and You're Out! A View on Cognitive Theory and the First-Millennium Extispicy Ritual •5. Arousing Images: The Poetry of Divination and the Divination of Poetry •6. The Theory of Knowledge and the Practice of Celestial Divination •Section 2. Hermeneutics of Sign Interpretation •7. Reading the Tablet, the Exta, and the Body: The Hermeneutics of Cuneiform Signs in Babylonian and Assyrian Text Commentaries and Divinatory Texts •8. "Sign, Sign, Everywhere a Sign": Script, Power, and Interpretation in the Ancient Near East •9. The Calculation of the Stipulated Term in Extispicy •10. The Divine Presence and Its Interpretation in Early Mesopotamian Divination •11. Physiognomy in Ancient Mesopotamia and Beyond: From Practice to Handbook •Section 3. History of Sign Interpretation •12. On Seeing and Believing: Liver Divination and the Era of Warring States (II) •13. Divination and Oracles at the Neo-Assyrian Palace: The Importance of Signs in Royal Ideology •14. Prophecy as a Form of Divination; Divination as a Form of Prophecy •15. Traces of the Omen Series ¿umma izbu in Cicero, De divinatione •Section 4. Response •16. Prophecy and Omen Divination: Two Sides of the Same Coin