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Weather
Omens of Enūma Anu Enlil
Thunderstorms, Wind and Rain (Tablets
44–49)
Erlend Gehlken, University of Frankfurt/Main
€105.00
$144.00
Cuneiform Monographs, 43
ISSN: 0929-0052
ISBN13:
9789004225886
Planned Publication Date: August 2012
x, 332
pp.
BRILL
The Assyro-Babylonian omen series Enūma 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.
Biographical
note
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.
Readership
This book is primarily written for Assyriologists,
but it will also prove informative to classicists, theologians, and historians
of science and literature.
Table of contents
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
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