Divination In The Ancient Near East

Author : Stefan M. Maul
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781481308595
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Divination in the Ancient Near East written by Stefan M. Maul and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The art of divination in the ancient Near East : reading the signs of heaven and earth by Stefan M. Maul (2018).

Author : Frederick H. Cryer
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0567059634
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Divination in Ancient Israel and its Near Eastern Environment written by Frederick H. Cryer and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1994-05-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this revealing study, the author suggests that ancient Israel was a 'magic society' like those around it, and similar in many respects to a number of magic-using 'savage' societies studied by modern social anthropology. Although the Old Testament attempts to distinguish between priestly and prophetic divination, this distinction was not sharply drawn in ancient times. References to divination in fact are found in all genres of Israelite literature, implying that many of these practices were performed throughout Israelite society. 'Cryer's investigation of divination in ancient Israel is a masterful synthesis of social and historical analyses of an important yet neglected topic' (Ronald E. Simkins, Catholic Biblical Quarterly).

Author : Leda Ciraolo
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004497366
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Magic and Divination in the Ancient World written by Leda Ciraolo and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays focuses on divination across the Ancient World from early Mesopotamia to late antiquity. The authors deal with the forms, theory and poetics of this important and still poorly understood ancient phenomenon.

Author : Jeanette C. Fincke
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1575068796
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Divination in the Ancient Near East written by Jeanette C. Fincke and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a collection of revised papers given in the workshop Divination im Alten Orient that was convened on July 22, 2008, as part of the 54th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale in Würzburg. The aim of this workshop was to bring together Assyriologists and Hittitologists in order to present and discuss the divination methods of their respective fields, most of which had not been studied until recently. The large audience that attended the workshop confirmed how wide is the interest in this subject.

Author : Alessandro Naso
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1614519102
Total Pages : 2173 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Etruscology written by Alessandro Naso and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 2173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook has two purposes: it is intended (1) as a handbook of Etruscology or Etruscan Studies, offering a state-of-the-art and comprehensive overview of the history of the discipline and its development, and (2) it serves as an authoritative reference work representing the current state of knowledge on Etruscan civilization. The organization of the volume reflects this dual purpose. The first part of the volume is dedicated to methodology and leading themes in current research, organized thematically, whereas the second part offers a diachronic account of Etruscan history, culture, religion, art & archaeology, and social and political relations and structures, as well as a systematic treatment of the topography of the Etruscan civilization and sphere of influence. 

Author : Ann Jeffers
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004667806
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Magic and Divination in Ancient Palestine and Syria written by Ann Jeffers and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-14 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with Deut. 18:9ff and its condemnation of magicians and diviners, this book explores the window that this text gives us into magic and divination in Ancient Palestine and Syria. Investigating the wealth of language combined with the archaeological and historical evidence, it seeks to place the influence of these factors in the emerging Israelite religion. An integral part of Ancient Near Eastern cosmology and culture, magic and divination are never completely eradicated despite the ideological warfare led by the Old Testament writers. The first part examines the function of various magicians and diviners. This is followed by a chapter on dreams and visions. The third chapter looks at the techniques and devices used by the oracular practitioners. Other subjects covered include magic in warfare, in the treatment of diseases, and blessing and cursing.

Author : Alan Lenzi
Publisher : Society of Biblical Literature
ISBN 13 : 9781589839960
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Divination, Politics, and Ancient Near Eastern Empires written by Alan Lenzi and published by Society of Biblical Literature. This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advance your understanding of divination’s role in supporting or undermining imperial aspirations in the ancient Near East This collection examines the ways that divinatory texts in the Hebrew Bible and the ancient Near East undermined and upheld the empires in which the texts were composed, edited, and read. Nine essays and an introduction engage biblical scholarship on the Prophets, Assyriology, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the critical study of Ancient Empires. Features: Interdisciplinary approaches include propaganda studies Essays examine how biblical and other ancient Near Eastern texts were shaped by political and theological empires Index of ancient sources

Author : Krzysztof Ulanowski
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004429395
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( 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 is about practices which enabled humans contact the divine. These relations, especially in difficult times of military conflict, could be crucial in deciding the fate of individuals, cities, dynasties or even empires.

Author : Jeffrey L. Cooley
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1575066939
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poetic Astronomy in the Ancient Near East written by Jeffrey L. Cooley and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern science historians have typically treated the sciences of the ancient Near East as separate from historical and cultural considerations. At the same time, biblical scholars, dominated by theological concerns, have historically understood the Israelite god as separate from the natural world. Cooley’s study, bringing to bear contemporary models of science history on the one hand and biblical studies on the other hand, seeks to bridge a gap created by 20th-century scholarship in our understanding of ancient Near Eastern cultures by investigating the ways in which ancient authors incorporated their cultures’ celestial speculation in narrative. In the literature of ancient Iraq, celestial divination is displayed quite prominently in important works such as Enuma Eliš and Erra and Išum. In ancient Ugarit as well, the sky was observed for devotional reasons, and astral deities play important roles in stories such as the Baal Cycle and Shahar and Shalim. Even though the veneration of astral deities was rejected by biblical authors, in the literature of ancient Israel the Sun, Moon, and stars are often depicted as active, conscious agents. In texts such as Genesis 1, Joshua 10, Judges 5, and Job 38, these celestial characters, these “sons of God,” are living, dynamic members of Yahweh’s royal entourage, willfully performing courtly, martial, and calendrical roles for their sovereign. The synthesis offered by this book, the first of its kind since the demise of the pan-Babylonianist school more than a century ago, is about ancient science in ancient Near Eastern literature.

Author : Lindsay G. Driediger-Murphy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192582917
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Divination and Experience written by Lindsay G. Driediger-Murphy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume sets out to re-examine what ancient people - primarily those in ancient Greek and Roman communities, but also Mesopotamian and Chinese cultures - thought they were doing through divination, and what this can tell us about the religions and cultures in which divination was practised. The chapters, authored by a range of established experts and upcoming early-career scholars, engage with four shared questions: What kinds of gods do ancient forms of divination presuppose? What beliefs, anxieties, and hopes did divination seek to address? What were the limits of human 'control' of divination? What kinds of human-divine relationships did divination create/sustain? The volume as a whole seeks to move beyond functionalist approaches to divination in order to identify and elucidate previously understudied aspects of ancient divinatory experience and practice. Special attention is paid to the experiences of non-elites, the perception of divine presence, the ways in which divinatory techniques could surprise their users by yielding unexpected or unwanted results, the difficulties of interpretation with which divinatory experts were thought to contend, and the possibility that divination could not just ease, but also exacerbate, anxiety in practitioners and consultants.