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

• 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. Heel -- 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.

Ämnesord

Omens  -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses. (LCSH)

Divination  -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses. (LCSH)

Vergöttlichung.  (swd)

Hermeneutik.  (swd)

Altertum.  (swd)

Vergoddelijking.  (gtt)

Interpretatie  (gtt)

Oudheid.  (gtt)

Tekens.  (gtt)

Omen  -- historia -- Före 1500 (sao)

Spådomskonst  -- historia -- Före 1500 (sao)

Orient.  (swd)

Genre

Konferenser  (saogf)

Klassifikation

BF1777 (LCC)

133.3/34 (DDC)

15.51 (bcl)

Blc (kssb/8 (machine generated))