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"This volume of finely crafted case studies is also the vehicle for an important general theory of divination.... this is a book overflowing with ideas that will powerfully stimulate further research." -- Journal of Ritual Studies "The essays in this collection provide a very useful overview of both the diversity of African divination systems and of recent approaches to their study." -- Choice This unique collection of essays by an exceptional international group of Africanists demonstrates the central role that divination continues to play throughout Africa in maintaining cultural systems and in guiding human action. African Divination Systems offers insights for current discussions in comparative epistemology, cross-cultural psychology, cognition studies, semiotics, ethnoscience, religious studies, and anthropology.


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  • Author : Philip M. Peek
  • Publisher : Georgetown University Press
  • Genre : History
  • Total Pages : 246 pages
  • ISBN : 9780253343093
  • PDF File Size : 41,5 Mb
  • Language : English
  • Rating : 4/5 from 21 reviews

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African Divination Systems

African Divination Systems
  • Publisher : Georgetown University Press
  • File Size : 37,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 02 June 1991
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"This volume of finely crafted case studies is also the vehicle for an important general theory of divination.... this is a book overflowing with ideas that will powerfully stimulate further

Magic and Divination in the Ancient World

Magic and Divination in the Ancient World
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • File Size : 25,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 01 October 2021
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This collection of essays focuses on divination across the Ancient World from early Mesopotamia to late antiquity. The authors deal with the forms, theory and poetics of this important and

Women's Divination in Biblical Literature

Women's Divination in Biblical Literature
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • File Size : 50,6 Mb
  • Release Date : 28 April 2015
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Divination, the use of special talents and techniques to gain divine knowledge, was practiced in many different forms in ancient Israel and throughout the ancient world. The Hebrew Bible reveals

Prophetic Divination

Prophetic Divination
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • File Size : 26,5 Mb
  • Release Date : 08 October 2019
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Prophecy was a wide-spread phenomenon in the ancient world - not only in ancient Israel but in the whole Eastern Mediterranean cultural sphere. This is demonstrated by documents from the

Divination as Science

Divination as Science
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • File Size : 43,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 14 June 2016
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There is no doubt that Ancient Near Eastern divination is firmly rooted in religion, since all ominous signs were thought to have been sent by gods, and the invocation of

In Focus Divination

In Focus Divination
  • Publisher : Wellfleet Press
  • File Size : 29,6 Mb
  • Release Date : 16 November 2021
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Learn the basics of how to read secret signs and symbols to provide insight, inspiration, and direction about the future. This accessible and beautifully designed guide includes a frameable poster

Cicero On Divination. Book 1

Cicero On Divination. Book 1
  • Publisher : OUP Oxford
  • File Size : 52,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 01 December 2006
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Wardle's commentary will stand for decades to come as a worthy modern counterpart and complement to Pease's grand opus - J. Linderski, Scholia Reviews

Divining the Woman of Endor

Divining the Woman of Endor
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • File Size : 34,7 Mb
  • Release Date : 23 February 2017
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An examination of the language of divination in the Hebrew Bible, particularly in 1 Samuel 28:3-25-the oft-called “Witch of Endor” passage. Kiboko contends that much of the vocabulary of divination