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Babylonian Oracle Questions

Author : Wilfred G. Lambert
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
ISBN 13 : 1575061368
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Babylonian Oracle Questions written by Wilfred G. Lambert and published by Eisenbrauns. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Babylonian tamitu texts are a corpus of questions addressed to the sun-god Shamash and the storm-god Adad jointly. Professional diviners were employed to put the questions with the appropriate rites and to formulate the wording correctly, since the only answer would be "yes" or "no." Thus the questions had to include a detailed exposition of the matter, and they open up intimate glances of things not otherwise available. Kings ask whether they should undertake a certain campaign, laying out a detailed plan of action. At the other end of the scale, a man wants to know whether his wife is telling him the truth. All tablets are of first millennium B.C. date, though some of the questions date from the second millennium B.C. Scribes copied out questions to serve as models for later use. In this volume W.G. Lambert has gathered together all the known material, including 54 tablets and fragments not previously published. All are given in cuneiform copy, transliteration, translation, with notes and an introduction. By far the greater part of this material has not been edited before.

Trames

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trames written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Neo-Assyrian and Greek Divination in War

Author : Krzysztof Ulanowski
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004429395
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Neo-Assyrian and Greek Divination in War written by Krzysztof Ulanowski and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neo-Assyrian and Greek Divination in War focuses on all divinatory practices which were used in the ancient Near East and Greece in time of war. Divination was a practical way of discovering the will of the gods, and enabled human contact with the divine. Divinatory practices were crucial to decision-taking. The results of divination were especially important during war. This book concentrates on the methods used to obtain all possible information from the divine world which could impact on the results of war. Knowledge of divine plans, verdicts and favors would ensure victory, power and eternal glory. This book is also about the convergence of the ancient Near East and Greek divinatory systems, methods and practices. Step by step, it points out that the Greeks treated divination in a very similar way to the Mesopotamians, and presents the possible routes of transmission of this divine knowledge, which was practiced in both cultures by a group of well-trained professionals.

Style and Form in Old-Babylonian Literary Texts

Author : Nathan Wasserman
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004496661
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Style and Form in Old-Babylonian Literary Texts written by Nathan Wasserman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basing himself on a careful study of all hitherto published (and some unpublished) Old-Babylonian literary texts - roughly 270 different compositions of all literary genres - Dr. Wasserman systematically leads the reader to a number of insightful conclusions regarding distinctive style and outstanding features of the Old-Babylonian literary system (as opposed to everyday texts, such as letters). The three opening chapters - Hendiadys, Tamyīz, and Damqam-īnim - are mainly concerned with syntax, but also connections with inalienability, a semantic issue. Chapter four and five, Merismus and Simile, focus on semantics (though also including word order). The last chapter, Rhyming Couplets, is fully devoted to form, with elaborations on such semantic problems as performative speech acts. The concluding pages delineate the contours of the Old-Babylonian literary system; genres and 'genre-families', the dichotomy between oral and written traditions, and the distinction between learned and popular literature. With a detailed catalogue of all known literary Old-Babylonian compositions.

Experiencing Power, Generating Authority

Author : Jane A. Hill
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1934536652
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Experiencing Power, Generating Authority written by Jane A. Hill and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-11-14 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For almost three thousand years, Egypt and Mesopotamia were each ruled by the single sacred office of kingship. Though geographically near, these ancient civilizations were culturally distinct, and scholars have historically contrasted their respective conceptualizations of the ultimate authority, imagining Egyptian kings as invested with cosmic power and Mesopotamian kings as primarily political leaders. In fact, both kingdoms depended on religious ideals and political resources to legitimate and exercise their authority. Cross-cultural comparison reveals the sophisticated and varied strategies that ancient kings used to unify and govern their growing kingdoms. Experiencing Power, Generating Authority draws on rich material records left behind by both kingdoms, from royal monuments and icons to the written deeds and commissions of kings. Thirteen essays provocatively juxtapose the relationships Egyptian and Mesopotamian kings had with their gods and religious mediators, as well as their subjects and court officials. They also explore the ideological significance of landscape in each kingdom, since the natural and built environment influenced the economy, security, and cosmology of these lands. The interplay of religion, politics, and territory is dramatized by the everyday details of economy, trade, and governance, as well as the social crises of war or the death of a king. Reexamining established notions of cosmic and political rule, Experiencing Power, Generating Authority challenges and deepens scholarly approaches to rulership in the ancient world. Contributors: Mehmet-Ali Ataç, Miroslav Bárta, Dominique Charpin, D. Bruce Dickson, Eckart Frahm, Alan B. Lloyd, Juan Carlos Moreno Garcia, Ludwig D. Morenz, Ellen Morris, Beate Pongratz-Leisten, Michael Roaf, Walther Sallaberger, JoAnn Scurlock. PMIRC, volume 6

Cursed Are You!

Author : Anne Marie Kitz
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1575068745
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Cursed Are You! written by Anne Marie Kitz and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2014-01-13 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about curses. It is not about curses as insults or offensive language but curses as petitions to the divine world to render judgment and execute harm on identified, hostile forces. In the ancient world, curses functioned in a way markedly different from our own, and it is into the world of the ancient Near East that we must go in order to appreciate the scope of their influence. For the ancient Near Easterners, curses had authentic meaning. Curses were part of their life and religion. They were not inherently magic or features of superstitions, nor were they mere curiosities or trifling antidotes. They were real and effective. They were employed proactively and reactively to manage life’s many vicissitudes and maintain social harmony. They were principally protective, but they were also the cause of misfortune, illness, depression, and anything else that undermined a comfortable, well-balanced life. Every member of society used them, from slave to king, from young to old, from men and women to the deities themselves. They crossed cultural lines and required little or no explanation, for curses were the source of great evil. In other words, curses were universal. Because curses were woven into the very fabric of every known ancient Near Eastern society, they emerge frequently and in a wide variety of venues. They appear on public and private display objects, on tomb stelae, tomb lintels, and sarcophagi, on ancient kudurrus and narûs. They are used in political, administrative, social, religious, and familial contexts. They are the subject of incantations. They are tools that exorcise demons and dispel disease; they ban, protect, and heal. This is the phenomenology of cursing in the ancient Near East, and this is what the present work explores.

Judges 1

Author : Mark S. Smith
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506480497
Total Pages : 924 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Judges 1 written by Mark S. Smith and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking volume presents a new translation of the text and detailed interpretation of almost every word or phrase in the book of Judges, drawing from archaeology and iconography, textual versions, biblical parallels, and extrabiblical texts, many never noted before. Archaeology also serves to show how a story of the Iron II period employed visible ruins to narrate supposedly early events from the so-called "period of the Judges." The synchronic analysis for each unit sketches its characters and main themes, as well as other literary dynamics. The diachronic, redactional analysis shows the shifting settings of units as well as their development, commonly due to their inner-textual reception and reinterpretation. The result is a remarkably fresh historical-critical treatment of 1:1-10:5.

Istar of Babylon: A Phantasy

Author : Margaret Horton Potter
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Istar of Babylon: A Phantasy written by Margaret Horton Potter and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Istar of Babylon: A Phantasy" by Margaret Horton Potter Margaret Horton Potter was an American novelist, specializing in historical fiction. In this book, she whisks readers to the ancient civilization of Babylon. The first section of the book deals with the characters' journey to arrive at this great city, while the rest of the book primarily concerns itself with bringing the ambiance and vibrance she pictures to life.

Birth in Babylonia and the Bible

Author : Stol
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004494618
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Birth in Babylonia and the Bible written by Stol and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utilising material spanning 3000 years, this book examines childbirth in the Biblical and Babylonian world. Stol's scholarship has an extraordinary range. He follows the mother and child from conception to weaning, analyzing a variety of different texts and topics. He deals, for example, with the vicissitudes and procedures of labor and delivery, delivery with magical plants and amulets, and with legal issues relating to abortion or to the liability of the wet-nurse. Many of the texts are rich and distinctive. Babylonian incantations to facilitate birth describe the child moving "over the dark sea" and, like a ship, reaching "the quay of life". His discussions are supplemented with relevant examples drawn from Greek and Roman sources, Rabbinic literature, and modern ethnographic material from traditional Middle Eastern societies. The last chapter, written by F.A.M. Wiggermann, deals with the horrible baby-snatching demon, Lamastum. This book is a fully re-worked edition of a volume originally written in Dutch (1983). Both authors teach at the Free University (Amsterdam).

Divination as Science

Author : Jeanette C. Fincke
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 157506426X
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Divination as Science written by Jeanette C. Fincke and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no doubt that Ancient Near Eastern divination is firmly rooted in religion, since all ominous signs were thought to have been sent by gods, and the invocation of omens was embedded in rituals. Nonetheless, the omen compendia display many aspects of a generally scientific nature. In their attempt to note all possible changes to the affected objects and to arrange their observations systematically for reference purposes, the scholars produced texts that resulted in a rather detailed description of the world, be it with respect to geography (the urban or rural environment on earth, or celestial and meteorological phenomena observed in the sky), biology (the outer appearance of the bodies of humans or animals, or the entrails of sheep), sociology (behavior of people) or others. Based on different divination methods and omen compendia, the question discussed during this workshop was whether the scholars had a scientific approach, presented as religion, or whether Ancient Near Eastern divination should be considered purely religious and that the term “science” is inappropriate in this context. The workshop attracted a large audience and lively discussion ensued. The papers presented in this volume reflect the focus of the sessions during the workshop and are likely to generate even more discussion, now that they are published.

East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
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The Babylonian World

Author : Gwendolyn Leick
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134261284
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book The Babylonian World written by Gwendolyn Leick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring all key aspects of the development of this ancient culture, The Babylonian World presents an extensive, up-to-date and lavishly illustrated history of the ancient state Babylonia and its 'holy city', Babylon.

Historiography, Ideology and Politics in the Ancient Near East and Israel

Author : Mario Liverani
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000413098
Total Pages : 364 pages
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Download or read book Historiography, Ideology and Politics in the Ancient Near East and Israel written by Mario Liverani and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Niels Peter Lemche and Emanuel Pfoh present an anthology of seminal studies by Mario Liverani, a foremost scholar of the Ancient Near East. This collection contains 18 essays, 11 of which have originally been published in Italian and are now published in English for the first time. It represents an important contribution to Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical Studies, exposing the innovative interpretations of Liverani on many historical and ideological aspects of ancient society. Topics range from the Amarna letters and the Ugaritic epic, to the ‘origins’ of Israel. Historiography, Ideology and Politics in the Ancient Near East and Israel will be an invaluable resource for Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical scholars, as well as graduate and post-graduate students.

Iraq

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Divination and Prophecy in the Ancient Greek World

Author : Roger D. Woodard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009221612
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Divination and Prophecy in the Ancient Greek World written by Roger D. Woodard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-31 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates the relevance of comparativism, ethnography, cognitive function, orality, and intertextuality to the elucidation of Greek prophetic practices.

Book of Ezekiel, The

Author : Corrine L. Carvalho
Publisher : Paulist Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809146789
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (467 download)

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Download or read book Book of Ezekiel, The written by Corrine L. Carvalho and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A user-friendly, interactive study guide for reading and understanding the prophet Ezekiel.

The Concepts of the Divine in the Greek Magical Papyri

Author : Eleni Pachoumi
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161540189
Total Pages : 280 pages
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Download or read book The Concepts of the Divine in the Greek Magical Papyri written by Eleni Pachoumi and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2017-05-05 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleni Pachoumi looks at the concepts of the divine in the Greek magical papyri by way of a careful and detailed analysis of ritual practices and spells. Her aim is to uncover the underlying religious, philosophical and mystical parallelisms and influences on the Greek magical papyri. She starts by examining the religious and philosophical concept of the personal daimon and the union of the individual with his personal daimon through the magico-theurgic ritual of systasis. She then goes on to analyze the religious concept of paredros as the divine "assistant" and the various relationships between paredros, the divine and the individual. To round off, she studies the concept of the divine through the manifold religious and philosophical assimilations mainly between Greek, Egyptian, Hellenized gods and divine abstract concepts of Jewish origins.