Divination and interpretation of signs in the ancient world
By: edited by Amar Annus ; with contributions by Amar Annus ... [et al.].
Series: Oriental Institute seminars -- no. 6; University of Chicago Oriental Institute seminars -- no. 6.
Publisher: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9781885923684
Notes: Proceedings from the fifth annual University of Chicago Oriental Institute Seminar, held March 6-7, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: On the beginnings and continuities of omen sciences in the ancient world / Amar Annus; title: "If P, then Q" : form and reasoning in Babylonian divination / Francesca Rochberg; title: Greek philosophy and signs / James Allen; title: Three strikes and you're out! A view on cognitive theory and the first-millennium extispicy ritual / Ulla Susanne Koch; title: Arousing images : the poetry of divination and the divination of poetry / Edward L. Shaughnessy; title: The theory of knowledge and the practice of celestial divination / Niek Veldhuis; title: Reading the tablet, the exta, and the body : the hermeneutics of cuneiform signs in Babylonian and Assyrian text commentaries and divinatory texts / Eckart Frahm; title: "Sign, sign, everywhere a sign" : script, power, and interpretation in the ancient Near East / Scott B. Noegel; title: The calculation of the stipulated term in extispicy / Nils P. Hee€el; title: The divine presence and its interpretation in early Mesopotamian divination / Abraham Winitzer; title: Physiognomy in ancient Mesopotamia and beyond : from practice to handbook / Barbara Böck; title: On seeing and believing : liver divination and the era of warring states (II) / Seth F.C. Richardson; title: Divination and oracles at the Neo-Assyrian palace : the importance of signs in royal ideology / Cynthia Jean; title: Prophecy as a form of divination; divination as a form of prophecy / JoAnn Scurlock; title: Traces of the omen series Šumma izbu in Cicero, De divinatione / John Jacobs; title: Prophecy and omen divination : two sides of the same coin / Martti Nissinen.