Ever wondered what God's will was for your life? Well you aren't alone. In the ancient world skilled practitioners of divination would use their magical talents and learned skills to divine what the gods wanted. So beyond a class at Hogwarts - divination was a way to find out what God wanted for you and your future. In this video we look at the theory behind divinatory practices and some common methods for divination.
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If you are interested in learning more about this topic we suggest you start here:
Amar Annus, ed. Divination and Interpretation of Signs in the Ancient World. Oriental Institute Seminars 6. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Jean Bottéro, Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia. Translated by Teresa Lavendar Fagan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.
Sally A. L. Butler, Mesopotamian Conceptions of Dreams and Dream Rituals, ed. Manfried Dietrich and Oswald Loretz (Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 1998), 18–9.
Frederick Cryer, Divination in Ancient Israel and it’s Near Eastern Environment: A Socio-Historical Investigation. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 142. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1994.
William L. Moran, “New Evidence from Mari on the History of Prophecy,” Biblica (1969): 15-56
A. Leo Oppenheim, “The Interpretation of Dreams in the Ancient Near East with a Translation of an Assyrian Dream-Book,” TAPS 46 (1956).
A Leo Oppenheim, “A Babylonian Diviner’s Manual,” Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 33 (1974): 197-220.
John Walton, Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament: Introducing the Conceptual World of the Hebrew Bible. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2006.
Ulla Koch-Westenholz, Mesopotamian Astrology: An Introduction to Babylonian and Assyrian Celestial Divination. The Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Near Eastern Studies 19. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 1995.
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