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Divination in the Ancient Near East

A Workshop on Divination Conducted during the 54th Recontre Assyriologique Internationale, Würzburg, 2008

Edited by Jeanette C. Fincke

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Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale

Divination in the Ancient Near East

A Workshop on Divination Conducted during the 54th Recontre Assyriologique Internationale, Würzburg, 2008

Edited by Jeanette C. Fincke

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.

 

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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.

Preface / Vorwort

Table of Content

Bibliographical Abbreviations

Divination im Alten Orient: Ein Überblick

Fincke, Jeanette C.

Hethitische Orakelspezialisten als Ritualkundige

Bawanipeck, Daliah

Analyse hethitischer Vogelflugorakel

Sakuma, Yasuhiko

The Babylonian ikribs

Lambert, Wilfred†

Zur altorientalischen Opferschaupraxis: Opferschaudurchführungen über das Wohlbefinden und über das Nicht-Wohlbefinden

De Vos, An

Die Beobachtung der Nieren in der altorientalischen Opferschau und die Stellung der Nieren-Omina innerhalb der Opferschau-Serie barûtu

Heeßel, Nils P.

New Readings in YOS 10

Khait, Ilya

The Halo of the Moon

Verderame, Lorenzo

Laws and Omens: Obverse and Inverse

Guinen, Ann

Indexes

General index

Index of texts

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