Weather Omens of Enūma Anu Enlil - Thunderstorms, Wind and Rain (Tablets 44-49)

The Assyro-Babylonian omen series "En 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 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.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Gehlken, Erlend Gehlken
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.08.2012
• EAN: 9789004225886
• ISBN: 978-90-04-22588-6
• No. of pages: 348
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 246 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 674 g
• Series: Cuneiform Monographs
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries