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Author / Creator:	Winitzer, Abraham, author.
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
Description:	1 online resource (xxi, 489 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Ancient Magic and Divination ; volume 12 Ancient magic and divination ; 12.
Subject:	Divination -- Iraq -- History. Animal sacrifice -- Iraq -- History. Omens -- Iraq -- History. Animal sacrifice. Civilization. Divination. Omens. Iraq -- History -- To 634. Iraq -- Civilization -- To 634. Iraq. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12870693

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ISBN:	9789004347007 9004347003 9789004346994
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 27, 2017).
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Winitzer, Abraham. Early Mesopotamian divination literature. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017 9789004346994

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