The Transmission of Solar Eclipse Omens in Anatolia and the Near East: Textual Agreements between Malhama Texts and Omens from Enuma Anu Enlil
Öz
The progress in the publication of the Babylonian omen series Enuma Anu Enlil allows for revisiting the relationship between the Assyro-Babylonian divinatory tradition and the malhama, a meteorological divinatory genre of Late Antiquity and the Medieval Age. The textual agreements between the solar eclipse omens of the Arabic and Turkish malhama texts with the respective omens in Enuma Anu Enlil may suggest that the genre continued its textual transmission for centuries because of its role in agricultural society and its grounding in oral tradition.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Malhama, Omens, Divination, Babylonian astronomy, Enuma Anu Enlil
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