Author: N. M. Swerdlow
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: planets, theory, babylonian
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1998-02-09
List price: $72.00
ISBN-10: 0691011966
ISBN-13: 9780691011967

In the second millennium b.c., Babylonian scribes assembled a vast collection of astrological omens, believed to be signs from the gods concerning the kingdom’s political, military, and agricultural fortunes. The importance of these omens was such that from the eighth or seventh until the first century, the scribes observed the heavens nightly and recorded the dates and locations of ominous phenomena of the moon and planets in relation to stars and constellations. The observations were arranged in monthly reports along with notable events and prices of agricultural commodities, the objec

Author: W. G. Lambert
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
Keywords: literature, wisdom, babylonian
Number of Pages: 1
Published: 1996-12
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0931464943
ISBN-13: 9780931464942

Author: Jeffrey L. Rubenstein
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: talmud, babylonian, culture
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2005-08-17
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0801882656
ISBN-13: 9780801882654

In this pathbreaking study Jeffrey L. Rubenstein reconstructs the cultural milieu of the rabbinic academy that produced the Babylonian Talmud, or Bavli, which quickly became the authoritative text of rabbinic Judaism and remains so to this day. Unlike the rabbis who had earlier produced the shorter Palestinian Talmud (the Yerushalmi) and who had passed on their teachings to students individually or in small and informal groups, the anonymous redactors of the Bavli were part of a large institution with a distinctive, isolated, and largely undocumented culture.The Culture of the Babylonian Talmu

Author: Sandra Tabatha Cicero
Publisher: Llewellyn Publications
Keywords: tarot, babylonian
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2006-01-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0738707163
ISBN-13: 9780738707167

Over four thousand years ago, the Sumerians built the world’s first cities near the fertile floodplains of ancient Mesopotamia, or Babylonia, as it would later become known. Their sophisticated civilization was so influential that elements of Sumerian culture, including their mythology and alphabet, would survive for millennia. Traces of Babylonian myth can even be found in the Hebrew Scriptures and, according to Golden Dawn Adept and Tarot artist Sandra Tabatha Cicero, the powerful deities and mysterious incantations of this ancient culture can also be seen as the very root of West

Author: Leonard W. King
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: sorcery, magic, babylonian
Number of Pages: 388
Published: 2009-07-18
List price: $35.99
ISBN-10: 1113187506
ISBN-13: 9781113187505

1896. This work is "The Prayers of the Lifting of the Hand," and represents the cuneiform texts of a group of Babylonian and Assyrian incantations and magical formulae edited with transliterations, translations, and full vocabulary from tablets of the Kuyunjik collections preserved in the British Museum. Contents: Prayers addressed to: Deities; Gods; Goddesses; Astral Deities; Prayers against the evils; Vocabulary.

Author: Giorgio Buccellati
Publisher: Harrassowitz
Keywords: babylonian, grammar, structural
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 1996
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 3447036125
ISBN-13: 9783447036122

Author: Michael L. Rodkinson
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Keywords: sanhedrin, tract, talmud, babylonian
Number of Pages: 372
Published: 2004-06-30
List price: $33.95
ISBN-10: 1419153420
ISBN-13: 9781419153426

GEMARA: How is to be understood the expression of the Mishna: One party selects one, etc.? Does it mean one party may select one court of three judges, and likewise the other; and then both the third court, which would be altogether nine judges? Are, then, three not sufficient? It means, if one party selects one judge its opponent may also do so, and then both may select the third one. And what is the reason of such a selection? It was said in Palestine in the name of R. Zera: Because each party selects its own judge, and both agree in the selection of the third one, the decision will be a jus