Nantilus
Divination and interpretation of signs in the ancient world
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| Format : | Livre |
| Langue : | anglais |
| Titre complet : | Divination and interpretation of signs in the ancient world / edited by Amar Annus; with contributions by Amar Annus, Francesca Rochberg, James Allen, Ulla Susanne Koch... [et al.] |
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Chicago (Ill.) :
Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
, 2010 |
| Description matérielle : | 1 vol. (VIII-351 p.) |
| Collection : | University of Chicago Oriental Institute seminars ; 6 |
| Sujets : |
- Introduction
- 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