1.

Record Nr.

UNIPARTHENOPE000004763

Autore

Wärneryd, Karl-Erik

Titolo

Stock-market psychology : how people value and trade stocks / Karl-Erik Wärneryd

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cheltenham : Edward Elgar, 2001

Northampton

Titolo uniforme

Stock-market psychology

ISBN

1-84376-218-8

Descrizione fisica

IX, 339 p. ; 24 cm

Disciplina

332.6322

Collocazione

313/73.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910153151803321

Titolo

Mediating between heaven and earth : communication with the divine in the Ancient Near East / / edited by C.L. Crouch, Jonathan Stokl, Anna Elise Zernecke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : T & T Clark, c2012

ISBN

1-283-89170-0

0-567-44624-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (207 p.)

Collana

Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; ; 566

T & T Clark library of biblical studies

Altri autori (Persone)

CrouchCarly L <1982-> (Carly Lorraine)

StoklJonathan <1977->

ZerneckeAnna Elise

Disciplina

224.06

Soggetti

Mythology, Middle Eastern

Middle East Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-178) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Introduction; OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND? DEDICATORY INSCRIPTIONS AS COMMUNICATION WITH THE DIVINE -- Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme; THE HERMENEUTICS OF MESOPOTAMIAN EXTISPICY: THEORY VS. PRACTICE -- Nils P. Heeßel; THE CURIOUS CASE OF FAILED REVELATION IN LUDLUL BEL NIMEQI: A NEW SUGGESTION FOR THE POEM'S SCHOLARLY PURPOSE -- Alan Lenzi; THE EXCLUSIVITY OF DIVINE COMMUNICATION IN ANCIENT ISRAEL: FALSE PROPHECY IN THE HEBREW BIBLE AND THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST -- Herbert B. Huffmon

(INTUITIVE) DIVINATION, (ETHICAL) DEMANDS AND DIPLOMACY IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST -- Jonathan StöklMODES OF COMMUNICATION WITH THE DIVINE IN THE HEBREW PSALTER -- Erhard S. Gerstenberger; "TO TALK TO ONE'S GOD": PENITENTIAL PRAYERS IN MESOPOTAMIA -- Margaret Jaques; HOW TO APPROACH A DEITY: THE GROWTH OF A PRAYER ADDRESSED TO IŠTAR -- Anna Elise Zernecke; PSALM 72 IN ITS ANCIENT SYRIAN CONTEXT -- Jan Dietrich; Bibliography; Index of



References; Index of Authors

Sommario/riassunto

This volume brings together experts in the study of ancient prayers and divination methods to analyse the variety of means by which human beings sought to communicate with their gods and by which the gods were seen to communicate with their worshippers. In a departure from previous scholarship, the volume brings together the study of prophecy, as an intuitive form of divination, with the study of technical methods of communication and other forms of institutionalised communication such as prayer. Such a format allows divine-human communication to be studied in both directions simultaneously: t