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Weather Omens of Enūma Anu Enlil
Thunderstorms, Wind and Rain (Tablets 44â49)
Series: - Cuneiform Monographs, Volume: 43
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The Assyro-Babylonian omen series EnÅ«ma 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 âcalculatingâ 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.
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.
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The Adad Tablets EAE 44 â 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
Chapter 2: The Adad Tablets EAE 44 â 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
This book is primarily written for Assyriologists, but it will also prove informative to classicists, theologians, and historians of science and literature.