Babylonian Divinatory Texts Chiefly In The Sch Yen Collection
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Babylonian Liver Omens
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Author : Ulla Susanne Koch
language : en
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Release Date : 2000
Babylonian Liver Omens written by Ulla Susanne Koch and has been published by Museum Tusculanum Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Foreign Language Study categories.
The Babylonians were famous even in their own time for their expertise in divination, and Koch-Westenholz suggests the lack of modern scholarship from the extensive written record is because the texts are dry, monotonous, and difficult to access and because divination is thought to be simple superstition not worth serious study. She makes a beginning on the accessibility problem by presenting three texts on interpreting sheep livers as the first of a projected complete series on the divinatory texts from the world's oldest extant general library. The edition is based on a catalogue, compiled by Ulla Jeyes as part of what was to be a collaboration on the project before Jeyes' untimely death, of the collections in the British Museum. The original inscriptions are followed by transcription and English translation. Tablets are illustrated in 48 photographic plates. Livers not included. Distributed in the US by ISBS. c. Book News Inc.
Texts From The Babylonian Collection
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Author : Yale Babylonian Collection
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
Texts From The Babylonian Collection written by Yale Babylonian Collection and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian categories.
An Old Babylonian Divination Text
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Author : Hans Frederick Lutz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1929
An Old Babylonian Divination Text written by Hans Frederick Lutz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1929 with categories.
Old Babylonian Omen Texts
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Author : Albrecht Goetze
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1947
Old Babylonian Omen Texts written by Albrecht Goetze and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1947 with Akkadian language categories.
Babylonian Divinatory Texts Chiefly In The Sch Yen Collection
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Author : A. R. George
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Babylonian Divinatory Texts Chiefly In The Sch Yen Collection written by A. R. George and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Akkadian language categories.
Transliteration, translation, and commentary of new Mesopotamian divination prayers, extispicy texts, omen lists, and divinatory models. These texts extend over two millennia and come from many sites, including a previously unknown city.
The Shi King The Old Poetry Classic Of The Chinese
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Author : William Jennings
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891
The Shi King The Old Poetry Classic Of The Chinese written by William Jennings and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1891 with Chinese poetry categories.
Divination And Interpretation Of Signs In The Ancient World
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Author : Amar Annus
language : en
Publisher: Oriental Inst Publications Sales
Release Date : 2010
Divination And Interpretation Of Signs In The Ancient World written by Amar Annus and has been published by Oriental Inst Publications Sales this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with History categories.
The concept of sign, a portent observed in the physical world, which indicates future events, is found in all ancient cultures, but was first developed in ancient Mesopotamian texts. This branch of Babylonian scientific knowledge extensively influenced other parts of the world, and similar texts written in Aramaic, Sanscrit, Sogdian, and other languages. The seminar will investigate how much do we know about the Babylonian theory and hermeneutics of omens, and the scope of their possible influences on other cultures and regions.
On Their Own Terms
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Author : Benjamin A. Elman
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-07-01
On Their Own Terms written by Benjamin A. Elman and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-01 with History categories.
In On Their Own Terms, Benjamin A. Elman offers a much-needed synthesis of early Chinese science during the Jesuit period (1600-1800) and the modern sciences as they evolved in China under Protestant influence (1840s-1900). By 1600 Europe was ahead of Asia in producing basic machines, such as clocks, levers, and pulleys, that would be necessary for the mechanization of agriculture and industry. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Elman shows, Europeans still sought from the Chinese their secrets of producing silk, fine textiles, and porcelain, as well as large-scale tea cultivation. Chinese literati borrowed in turn new algebraic notations of Hindu-Arabic origin, Tychonic cosmology, Euclidian geometry, and various computational advances. Since the middle of the nineteenth century, imperial reformers, early Republicans, Guomindang party cadres, and Chinese Communists have all prioritized science and technology. In this book, Elman gives a nuanced account of the ways in which native Chinese science evolved over four centuries, under the influence of both Jesuit and Protestant missionaries. In the end, he argues, the Chinese produced modern science on their own terms.
Tun Huang Popular Narratives
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Author : Victor H. Mair
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1983-11-10
Tun Huang Popular Narratives written by Victor H. Mair and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983-11-10 with History categories.
Tun-huang Popular Narratives presents authoritative translations of four vernacular Chinese stories, taken from fragmentary texts usually referred to as pien-wen or 'transformation texts'. Dating from the late T'ang (618-907) and Five Dynasties (907-959) periods, the texts were discovered early last century in a cave at Tun-huang, in Chinese Central Asia. However, written down in an early colloquial language by semi-literate individuals and posing formidable philological problems, the texts have not been studied critically before. Nevertheless they represent the only surviving primary evidence of a widespread and flourishing world of popular entertainment during these centuries. The tales deal with both religious (mostly Buddhist) and secular themes, and make exciting and vivid reading.
The Shape Of Script
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Author : Stephen D. Houston
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
The Shape Of Script written by Stephen D. Houston and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book builds on earlier projects about the origins and extinctions of script traditions throughout the world in an effort to address the fundamental questions of how and why writing systems change. The contributors--who study ancient scripts from Arabic to Roman, from Bronze Age China to Middle Kingdom Egypt--utilize an approach that views writing less as a technology than as a mode of communication, one that is socially learned and culturally transmitted.