Babylonian Planetary Omens: Part Four
Title | Babylonian Planetary Omens: Part Four PDF eBook |
Author | Erica Reiner |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 227 |
Release | 2021-10-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9047415604 |
This volume presents the edition and translation of first-millennium BC Babylonian omens derived from the appearance and movements of the planet Jupiter. David Pingree’s introduction and astronomical commentary shows the extent of the Babylonian scholars’ knowledge of astronomical phenomena.
Babylonian Planetary Omens: Part Three
Title | Babylonian Planetary Omens: Part Three PDF eBook |
Author | Reiner |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 2023-03-27 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9004453377 |
This third fascicle of Babylonian Planetary Omens contains the edition of all cuneiform texts dealing with the planet Venus known to us. Most of these tablets are kept in the British Museum; the large number of unpublished texts were transliterated and the previously published texts were checked and collated from the originals. The texts are accompanied by translations, and each group of texts is commented upon by David Pingree from the point of view of the text history and astronomical significance. A general introduction, also by David Pingree, analyzes the descriptions of Venus that occur in the texts in terms of astronomical phenomena. Indices are included to facilitate the study of this large corpus.
Weather Omens of Enūma Anu Enlil
Title | Weather Omens of Enūma Anu Enlil PDF eBook |
Author | Erlend Gehlken |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 2012-08-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004225994 |
The Assyro-Babylonian omen series Enūma Anu Enlil, written on seventy cuneiform tablets, bears witness to the early understanding of the mutual interactions of heaven and earth on both the physical and the religious levels. To facilitate accessibility, technical and linguistic commentaries as well as an excerpt series were compiled by the scholars of old. This ancient knowledge, which was still largely characterized by mythological concepts, was never completely abandoned, not even when the ‘calculating’ astronomy became prevalent in the first millennium B.C. The series deals in four parts with the moon, the sun, weather phenomena, and fixed stars and planets. This book offers an edition of the texts of the second half of the weather section with the accompanying material.
Babylonian Planetary Omens: without special title
Title | Babylonian Planetary Omens: without special title PDF eBook |
Author | Erica Reiner |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 1998-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9789056930110 |
This third fascicle of Babylonian Planetary Omens contains the edition of all cuneiform texts dealing with the planet Venus known to us. Most of these tablets are kept in the British Museum; the large number of unpublished texts were transliterated and the previously published texts were checked and collated from the originals. The texts are accompanied by translations, and each group of texts is commented upon by David Pingree from the point of view of the text history and astronomical significance. A general introduction, also by David Pingree, analyzes the descriptions of Venus that occur in the texts in terms of astronomical phenomena. Indices are included to facilitate the study of this large corpus.
Neo-Assyrian and Greek Divination in War
Title | Neo-Assyrian and Greek Divination in War PDF eBook |
Author | Krzysztof Ulanowski |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 588 |
Release | 2020-10-20 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 9004429395 |
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.
Predicting the Past in the Ancient Near East
Title | Predicting the Past in the Ancient Near East PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Neujahr |
Publisher | Society of Biblical Lit |
Pages | 318 |
Release | 2012-11-06 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 193067581X |
This work provides an in-depth investigation of after-the-fact predictions in ancient Near Eastern texts from roughly 1200 B.C.E.–70 C.E. It argues that the Akkadian, Aramaic, Hebrew, and Greek works discussed are all part of a developing scribal discourse of “mantic historiography” by which scribes blend their local traditions of history writing and predictive texts to produce a new mode of historiographic expression. This in turn calls into question the use and usefulness of traditional literary categories such as “apocalypse” to analyze such works.
Mathematical Commentaries in the Ancient World
Title | Mathematical Commentaries in the Ancient World PDF eBook |
Author | Karine Chemla |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | |
Release | 2022-06-09 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1108880932 |
This is the first book-length analysis of the techniques and procedures of ancient mathematical commentaries. It focuses on examples in Chinese, Sanskrit, Akkadian and Sumerian, and Ancient Greek, presenting the general issues by constant detailed reference to these commentaries, of which substantial extracts are included in the original languages and in translation, sometimes for the first time. This makes the issues accessible to readers without specialized training in mathematics or in the languages involved. The result is a much richer understanding than was hitherto possible of the crucial role of commentaries in the history of mathematics in four different linguistic areas, of the nature of mathematical commentaries in general, of the contribution that the study of mathematical commentaries can make to the history of science and to the study of commentaries in general, and of the ways in which mathematical commentaries are like and unlike other kinds of commentaries.