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" Divination and interpretation of signs in the ancient world / "
edited by Amar Annus ; with contributions by Amar Annus [and others].
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BL
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994991
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b749361
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Divination and interpretation of signs in the ancient world /\ edited by Amar Annus ; with contributions by Amar Annus [and others].
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Chicago, Ill. :: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago,, 2010.
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Oriental Institute seminars,; no. 6
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viii, 351 pages :: illustrations ;; 26 cm.
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1885923686
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: 9781885923684
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"Revised versions of the papers read at the fifth annual University of Chicago Oriental Institute Seminar Science and Superstition : Interpretation of Signs in the Ancient World, which took place at March 6-7, 2009. The printed volume has a slightly different title, and it includes two papers from scholars who were invited to the seminar, but could not come ..."--Pref., p. vii.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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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.
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Divination-- History-- To 1500, Congresses.
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Omens-- History-- To 1500, Congresses.
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11.19 ancient religions: other.
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15.51 Antiquity.
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Altertum
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Divination-- History-- To 1500, Congresses.
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Divination.
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Hermeneutik
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Omen-- historia-- före 1500, konferenser.
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Omens-- History-- To 1500, Congresses.
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Omens.
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Spådomskonst-- historia-- före 1500, konferenser.
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Vergöttlichung
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Interpretatie.
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Oudheid.
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Tekens.
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Vergoddelijking.
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Orient
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| Dewey Classification
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133.3/34
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BF1777.D58 2010
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11.19bcl
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15.51bcl
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Annus, Amar.
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