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قراءة كتاب Babylonian-Assyrian Birth-Omens and Their Cultural Significance
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Babylonian-Assyrian Birth-Omens and Their Cultural Significance
Babylonian-Assyrian
Birth-Omens
And
Their Cultural Significance
by
Morris Jastrow, jr.
Ph. D. (Leipzig) Professor of Semitic Languages in the University
of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)
Gießen 1914
Verlag von Alfred Töpelmann (vormals J. Ricker)
Religionsgeschichtliche
Versuche und Vorarbeiten
begründet von
Albrecht Dieterich und Richard Wünsch
herausgegeben von
Richard Wünsch und Ludwig Deubner
in Münster i. W. in Königsberg i. Pr.
XIV. Band. 5. Heft
To
SIR WILLIAM OSLER
Regius Professor of Medicine
Oxford University
This volume is dedicated
as a mark of esteem and admiration.
“Most fine, most honour’d, most renown’d.”
(King Henry V, 2d Part, Act IV, 5, 164.)
Analysis
Divination in Babylonia and Assyria | 1 |
Three chief methods: hepatoscopy, astrology and birth-omens | 1-6 |
Spread of Hepatoscopy and Astrology to Hittites, Etruscans, Greeks and Romans and to China | 3-4 |
The Transition motif in religious rites and popular customs | 5-6 |
Omen collections in Ashurbanapal’s Library | 6-7 |
Birth-omen reports | 9-12 |
Animal Birth-omens | 12-28 |
Double foetus | 13-16 |
Principles of interpretation | 14-15 |
Multiple births among ewes | 17-18 |
Malformation of ears | 19-22 |
Excess number of ears | 20-22 |
Ewe giving birth to young resembling lion | 23-26 |
Ewe giving birth to young resembling other animals | 27-28 |
Human Birth-omens | 28-41 |
Twins | 29-30 |
Monstrosities | 30 |
Multiple births | 31 |
Malformation of ears | 32-33 |
Malformation of mouth, nostrils, jaws, arms, lips, hand | 33-34 |
Malformation of anus, genital member, thigh, feet | 35-36 |
Principles of interpretation | 36 |
Misshapen embryos | 37 |
Weaklings, cripples, deaf-mutes, still-births, dwarfs | 38-39 |
Talking infants, with bearded lips and teeth | 39 |
Infants with animal features | 32. 33. 35-36. 40-41 |
Study of Human Physiognomy among Greeks and Romans |