Noch Fragen? 0800 / 33 82 637

The Babylonian šumma immeru Omens

Transmission, Reception and Text Production

Produktform: Buch / Einband - fest (Hardcover)

The Babylonian šumma immeru (‘If the Sheep’) omens are concerned with ominous signs drawn from the behaviour of the sacrificial sheep at the time of its sacrifice. They are part of the diviner’s craft of divination and are related to the technique of extispicy (i.e., the examination of the entrails). The literary history and the transmission of the šumma immeru omens is long and convoluted. The omens are attested from the Old Babylonian period to almost the very end of cuneiform civilization at Seleucid Uruk. Manuscripts of the omens and of their commentaries arrive from Babylonia, Assyria, Anatolia and Northern Syria. This book is the first comprehensive study of this omen genre. It offers complete text editions and commentaries of the omens, some previously unpublished. It places the šumma immeru omens within the context of Babylonian divination, and investigates how texts reached a “canonical” status that had become immune from changes during millennia of textual production, transmission and reception.weiterlesen

Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-3-9632704-2-0 / 978-3963270420 / 9783963270420

Verlag: Zaphon

Erscheinungsdatum: 02.12.2020

Seiten: 406

Autor(en): Yoram Cohen

98,00 € inkl. MwSt.
kostenloser Versand

lieferbar - Lieferzeit 10-15 Werktage

zurück