“Shamash, great lord, whom I am asking, answer me with reliable ‘Yes!’ ”: The Influence of Divination on the Result of War

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Abbreviations vii
4. Preface xiii
5. Divination between Religion and Science 1
6. Bias in Observations of Natural Phenomena Made for Divinatory Purposes 11
7. “Shamash, great lord, whom I am asking, answer me with reliable ‘Yes!’ ”: The Influence of Divination on the Result of War 47
8. Sheep Anatomical Terminology in the šumma immeru Omen Series and Additional Texts 79
9. Some Remarks about the Old Babylonian Libanomancy Texts 93
10. The Oldest Mesopotamian Astronomical Treatise: enūma anu e 107
11. Divination and Religion as a Cultural System 147
12. Indexes 167