Weather Omens of Enūma Anu Enlil

Thunderstorms, Wind and Rain (Tablets 44-49)
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-04-22588-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 43, 338 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 674 g

Reihe: Cuneiform Monographs

The Assyro-Babylonian omen series Enuma Anu Enlil, written on seventy cuneiform tablets, bears witness to the early understanding of the mutual interactions of heaven and earth on both the physical and the religious levels. To facilitate accessibility, technical and linguistic commentaries as well as an excerpt series were compiled by the scholars of old. This ancient knowledge, which was still largely characterized by mythological concepts, was never completely abandoned, not even when the ‘calculating’ astronomy became prevalent in the first millennium B.C. The series deals in four parts with the moon, the sun, weather phenomena, and fixed stars and planets. This book offers an edition of the texts of the second half of the weather section with the accompanying material.

Zielgruppe

This book is primarily written for Assyriologists, but it will also prove informative to classicists, theologians, and historians of science and literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gehlken, Erlend

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Altorientalische Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte Religionen des Alten Orients
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The Adad Tablets EAE 44 – 49
2.1 Tablet 44 (Thunder)
2.2 Tablet 45 (Thunder)
2.3 Tablet 46 (Thunder)
2.4 Tablet 47 (Lightning, Rainbows and Earthquakes)
2.5 Tablet 48 (Rain, Fog and Mud)
2.6 Tablet 49 (Wind)
Chapter 3: The Series Riks gerri
Indices
Plates

Über Autor(innen)

Gehlken, Erlend
Erlend Gehlken (Ph.D. Heidelberg 1991, Habilitation Marburg 2003) lectures at the University of Frankfurt/Main. Apart from articles on Mesopotamian astronomy he has mainly published on Late Babylonian texts from Uruk.