The Babylonian World (Routledge Worlds)

34 Only two so-called Shuilaprayers to Enlil are known so far, see Mayer 1976 : 384 – 385. Note also that only one short prayer ...

Brinkman, J.A. 1968 A Political History of Post-Kassite Babylonia: 1158 – 722 BC(An Or 43 ), Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, Ro ...

Sommerfeld, W. 1979 and 1981 ‘The Rise of Marduk – Some Aspects of Divine Exaltation’, Sumer 41 : 97 – 100. –––– 1982 Der Aufsti ...

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE DIVINATION CULTURE AND THE HANDLING OF THE FUTURE  Stefan M. Maul A n omen is a clearly defined perceptio ...

The relationship between empirical observation and the systematic study of regularities has parallels to the working methods of ...

for instance, or that stellar signs always had to be examined together with terrestrial ones. It was taken as evident that the d ...

After the fall of the Neo-Babylonian empire, the Greeks and Romans used the title ‘Chaldean’ (a synonym for ‘Babylonian’) to des ...

framework. On the other hand, although literary sources refer to circumstances where people have disregarded divine ‘signs’, the ...

second millennium and known as iqqur ipusˇ(‘he demolished, he built up’) provides information in the form of lists and tables as ...

from the Old Babylonian, as well as the first millennium BC. They were interpreted, at least during the latter period, by the in ...

SIGNS DURING SLEEP: DREAM OMINA Procedures concerning dream interpretation are mentioned in the oldest comprehensible cuneiform ...

Protocols about specific oracular rituals and the letters exchanged between rulers and their advisers, dating from the second an ...

as auspicious (positive), unclear, or unauspicious (negative). In the worst case, as in the absence of a certain sign on the liv ...

that this form of divination was also used by kings and generals since not a few refer to future wars or warn of enemies (editio ...

Hunger, H. and D. Pingree 1999 Astral Sciences in Mesopotamia.Handbuch der Orientalistik, 1. Abteilung 44. Band, Boston: Brill. ...

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX WITCHCRAFT LITERATURE IN MESOPOTAMIA  Tzvi Abusch L et us begin with simple definitions of magic and witch ...

the gods increasingly gained more control over the world. With the decrease in view- ing society primarily in corporate terms, a ...

The late stage during which the witch became a major force able to control the personal god represents a resurgence of a late Me ...

corpse. Contact is still indirect when she sends evil omens that augur doom; that is, the witch is also able to harm her victim ...

applications of ceremonial/medical materials) as well as a statement describing the circumstance and purpose of the activity. Tw ...