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Divination --- -Omens --- -Portents --- Prodigies (Omens) --- Signs (Omens) --- Superstition --- Signs and symbols --- Augury --- Soothsaying --- Occultism --- Worship --- Rome --- Religion. --- Omens --- Portents --- Religion

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Akkadian language --- Accadian language --- Assyrian language --- Assyro-Babylonian language --- Babylonian language --- Semitic languages --- Omens --- Portents --- Prodigies (Omens) --- Signs (Omens) --- Superstition --- Signs and symbols

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This volume presents an edition of first-millennium BC Babylonian cuneiform texts that comprise Chapters 64 and 65 of the compendium of celestial omen texts dealing with the appearance and movements of the planet Jupiter. All are accompanied by an English translation. David Pingree has again provided an extensive introduction and astronomical commentary, in which he discusses the astronomical plausibility of the phenomena that are described in the omens. The textual material and its astronomical interpretation throws light on the extent of the Babylonian scholars' knowledge of astronomy and furnishes another argument in the debate about observation versus scribal tradition in the description of these phenomena.

Akkadian language --- Astronomy --- Astronomy, Assyro-Babylonian --- Omens --- history --- Portents --- Prodigies (Omens) --- Signs (Omens) --- Superstition --- Signs and symbols --- Assyro-Babylonian astronomy --- Babylonian astronomy --- Chaldean astronomy

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In Early Mesopotamian Divination Literature: Its Organizational Framework and Generative and Paradigmatic Characteristics , Abraham Winitzer provides a detailed study of the Akkadian Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1600 BC) omen collections stemming from extispicy, the most significant Mesopotamian divination technique for most of that civilization’s history. Paying close attention to these texts’ organizational structure, Winitzer details the mechanics responsible for their origins and development, and highlights key characteristics of a conceptual framework that helped reconfigure Mesopotamian divination into a literature in line with significant, new forms of literary expression from the same time. This literature, Winitzer concludes, represents an early form of scientific reasoning that began to appreciate the centrality of texts and textual interpretation in this civilization’s production, organization, and conception of knowledge.

Divination --- Animal sacrifice --- Omens --- Portents --- Prodigies (Omens) --- Signs (Omens) --- Superstition --- Signs and symbols --- Sacrifice --- Augury --- Soothsaying --- Occultism --- Worship --- History. --- Iraq --- History --- Civilization

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Divination --- Omens --- Prophecies (Occultism) --- Présages --- Prophéties (Occultisme) --- Religious aspects --- Aspect religieux --- Rome --- Religion --- -Omens --- -Portents --- Prodigies (Omens) --- Signs (Omens) --- Superstition --- Signs and symbols --- Religion. --- -Religious aspects --- Présages --- Prophéties (Occultisme) --- Portents --- Augury --- Soothsaying --- Occultism --- Worship --- Divination - Rome --- Omens - Rome --- Rome - Religion