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Author Winitzer, Abraham, author.

Title Early Mesopotamian divination literature : its organizational framework and generative and paradigmatic characteristics / by Abraham Winitzer.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 489 pages).
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Series Ancient Magic and Divination ; volume 12
Ancient magic and divination ; 12.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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.
Contents Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and Conventions; Introductory Note: Text Citation, Translation, Transcription, and Secondary Literature; Chapter 1 Introduction; 1.1 The Problem of Mesopotamian Divination Literature; 1.2 Toward a New Approach; 1.2.1 The Collections' Organizational Framework and Generative and Paradigmatic Characteristics; 1.2.2 The OB Extispicy Collections-Provenance and Context; 1.3 Overview; Chapter 2 Inner-omen Organization; 2.0 Inner-omen Organization; 2.1 The Individual Omen as a Syntagm; 2.1.1 Simple Protasis-Simple Apodosis; 2.1.2 Omens with Complex Protases.
2.1.2.1 The amūtu-omens and Congeners2.1.3 Simple Protasis-Complex Apodosis; 2.1.3.1 Joined by Coordination; 2.1.3.1.1 ū, ū lū, lū, -ma; 2.1.3.2 (ø) ... (u) šumma, (ø) ... šumma ... u šumma, (ø) ... u šumma ... u šumma; 2.1.3.3 ana + Noun Phrase; 2.1.3.4 šanûm šumšu and Variants; 2.1.3.4 (a) Competing, Hermeneutically Based Associations; 2.1.3.4 (b) Major Alternation in Readings of a Single, Hermeneutically Based Association; 2.1.3.4 (c) Minor Alternation in Readings of a Single, Hermeneutically Based Association; 2.1.3.4 (d) Qualification of Mirror-image or Contradictory Forecasts.
2.1.3.4 (e) Qualification of a Forecast's Range2.1.3.5 ūmam rīqam, rīqūssa; 2.1.4 Joined with Asyndeton; 2.1.4.1 Complex Apodoses with Asyndetically Joined Full Forecasts; 2.1.4.2 Lemma: Longer Interpretation; 2.1.4.2.1 erišti + Noun Phrase; 2.1.4.2.2 nanmurtum and pitruštum; 2.1.4.2.3 nip+um and Variants; 2.1.4.2.4 tešmûm; 2.1.4.2.5 millatum; 2.1.4.2.6 tašnintum; 2.1.4.2.7 kišittum; 2.1.4.2.8 mūb libbim, uluc libbim, +iššat libbim, lumun libbim, mīli irtim; 2.1.4.2.9 tazzimtum; Chapter 3 Inter-omen Organization (I); 3.0 Inter-omen Organization (I); 3.1 Gradation.
3.1.1 Challenges to the Identification of Gradation Paradigms3.1.2 Explicit Reference to Preceding Omens; 3.1.3 Implied Reference to Preceding Omens; 3.1.4 Apodotic Effects on Following Protases; 3.2 Simple Gradation: Opposition; 3.2.1 Initial Considerations; 3.2.2 išûm / lā išûm and Variants; 3.2.3 kayyān(t)um kayyān(t)um; 3.2.4 šalāmum; 3.3 Anatomical Opposition: Spatial Positioning; 3.3.1 Spatial Positioning according to the Right/Left Paradigm; 3.4 Opposition in Zonal Properties; Chapter 4 Inter-omen Organization (II): Complex Gradation; 4.0 Inter-omen Organization (II): Complex Gradation.
4.1 Pointillism in Complex Gradation4.1.1 Pointillism of the Agglutinative Type; 4.1.1.1 Generative Employment of Pointillism of the Agglutinative Type; 4.1.1.1.1 Anatomical Mapping; 4.1.1.2 Interpolation with Other Interpretive Principles or Associations; 4.1.2 Pointillism of the Paradigmatic Type; 4.1.2.1 Nominally Formulated Examples; 4.1.2.2 Verbally Formulated Examples; 4.1.2.3 Nominally and Verbally Formulated Examples; 4.1.3 Combination of the Agglutinative and Paradigmatic Types; 4.1.4 The Limitations of Pointillism; 4.2 Spatial Positioning in Complex Gradation.
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Subject Divination -- Iraq -- History.
Divination.
Iraq.
History.
Animal sacrifice -- Iraq -- History.
Animal sacrifice.
Omens -- Iraq -- History.
Iraq -- History -- To 634.
Chronological Term To 634
Subject Omens.
Iraq -- Civilization -- To 634.
Civilization.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Parapsychology -- General.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Winitzer, Abraham. Early Mesopotamian divination literature. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017 9789004346994 (DLC) 2017021332
ISBN 9789004347007 (electronic book)
9004347003 (electronic book)
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