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Babylonian Oracle Questions (Hardcover)
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Babylonian Oracle Questions (Hardcover)
Series: Mesopotamian Civilizations
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The Babylonian tamitu texts are a corpus of questions addressed to
the sun-god Shamash and the storm-god Adad jointly. Professional
diviners were employed to put the questions with the appropriate
rites and to formulate the wording correctly, since the only answer
would be "yes" or "no." Thus the questions had to include a
detailed exposition of the matter, and they open up intimate
glances of things not otherwise available. Kings ask whether they
should undertake a certain campaign, laying out a detailed plan of
action. At the other end of the scale, a man wants to know whether
his wife is telling him the truth. All tablets are of first
millennium B.C. date, though some of the questions date from the
second millennium B.C. Scribes copied out questions to serve as
models for later use. In this volume W.G. Lambert has gathered
together all the known material, including 54 tablets and fragments
not previously published. All are given in cuneiform copy,
transliteration, translation, with notes and an introduction. By
far the greater part of this material has not been edited before.
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