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Mesopotamian Divination Texts: Conversing With the Gods: Sources from the First Millennium Bce (Guides to the Mesopotamian Textual Record)

Ulla Susanne Koch

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Description:Divination is one of the best documented intellectual and religious endeavours of Ancient Mesopotamia. Texts pertaining to divination appear already at the beginning of the 2nd millennium BCE and the tradition continued up until the very end of cuneiform culture. But the lifespan of Mesopotamian divination is much longer than two millennia. It gestated in the 3rd millennium and remnants live on to this day in astrology and astronomy. This volume is dedicated to the sources from the 1st millennium. They are rich and varied, consisting of technical and theoretical works, explanatory texts, commentaries as well as ephemeral sources for the practical use of divination in the life of king and commoner. From being the preserves of a very few specialists, divination has become an important topic of study with new text editions and studies appearing every year, this book provides a survey of the sources, as well as an introduction to the history, theory and practice of the various divination genres.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Mesopotamian Divination Texts: Conversing With the Gods: Sources from the First Millennium Bce (Guides to the Mesopotamian Textual Record). To get started finding Mesopotamian Divination Texts: Conversing With the Gods: Sources from the First Millennium Bce (Guides to the Mesopotamian Textual Record), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 394

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Release: 2015

ISBN: 3868351094

Description: Divination is one of the best documented intellectual and religious endeavours of Ancient Mesopotamia. Texts pertaining to divination appear already at the beginning of the 2nd millennium BCE and the tradition continued up until the very end of cuneiform culture. But the lifespan of Mesopotamian divination is much longer than two millennia. It gestated in the 3rd millennium and remnants live on to this day in astrology and astronomy. This volume is dedicated to the sources from the 1st millennium. They are rich and varied, consisting of technical and theoretical works, explanatory texts, commentaries as well as ephemeral sources for the practical use of divination in the life of king and commoner. From being the preserves of a very few specialists, divination has become an important topic of study with new text editions and studies appearing every year, this book provides a survey of the sources, as well as an introduction to the history, theory and practice of the various divination genres.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Mesopotamian Divination Texts: Conversing With the Gods: Sources from the First Millennium Bce (Guides to the Mesopotamian Textual Record). To get started finding Mesopotamian Divination Texts: Conversing With the Gods: Sources from the First Millennium Bce (Guides to the Mesopotamian Textual Record), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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