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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
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divine 1 pert. to God or a god; god-like; heavenly XIV; of surpassing excellence XV. — OF.
devin, fem.
-ine, later, by assim. to L.,
divin(e) — L.
dīvīnus, f.
dīvus god-like, god, rel. to
deus god :- IE. *
deiwos; see
-INE 1.
So
divinity XIV.
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Divination in Ancient Israel and its Near Eastern Environment: A Socio-Historical Investigation
Magazine article from: Journal of Biblical Literature; 1/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; Divination in Ancient Israel and its Near Eastern...second part constitutes a survey of divination in ancient Mesopotamia and "ancient...of a discussion of the phenomenon of divination in the ancient Near East. After all...
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Divination and experience: explorations of a Chagga epistemology./Divination et experience: explorations d'une epistemologie des Chagga.
Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute; 6/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...envisage various reasons why African divination has received so little systematic attention...shows how anthropological approaches to divination are founded on a common premise: regardless of whether divination is conceived of as a means for providing...
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Book reviews -- Divination in Ancient Israel and Its Near Eastern Environment: A Socio-Historical Investigation by Frederick H. Cryer
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 1/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; FREDERICK H. CRYER, Divination in Ancient Israel and Its Near Eastern...chronographic literature of the OT, divination played a prominent role in ancient...another form of non-prophetic divination"(p. 237). Nevertheless, with...
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Temporality of post-mortem divination and divination of post-mortem temporality
Magazine article from: The Australian Journal of Anthropology; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; When an Ambonwari person dies divination may be used to consult spirits...events. The aim of post-mortem divination is to reconstitute and rearrange...dead and of the bush. The aim of divination is to place the events, deeds...
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Insight and Artistry in African Divination.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: African Arts; 6/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...fifteen essays by scholars on African divination; it was occasioned by an exhibition...November 1996. Neither a catalogue of the divination objects in this collection nor a summary...continues the discourse begun by African Divination Systems: Ways of Knowing, edited by...
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Art and Oracle: African Art and Rituals of Divination.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: African Arts; 9/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Wing. It included 140 objects relating to African divination practices: single figures, sets of objects, costumes used in divination performances, and objects that result from divination or depict aspects of divination. In just eighty pages...
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Divining Troubles, or Divining troubles? Emergent and conflictual dimensions of Bangladeshi divination
Magazine article from: Anthropological Quarterly; 10/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...explain how divinations could appear...products of divination-like Delwar...of earlier divinations' accuracy. [divination, dialogism...analyzing a dozen divination encounters...context for divinations as encounters...
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Divination as a Way of Knowing: Embodiment, Visualisation, Narrative, and Interpretation.
Magazine article from: Folklore; 10/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; Abstract Divination, which is a way of exploring the unknown...presentational symbolism. Wherever a theory of divination has been carefully elicited from practitioners...meditative empathy towards acts of divination as well as a sophisticated theory of...
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FINDING MEANING IN THE TEXT: THE PROCESS OF INTERPRETATION IN TEXT-BASED DIVINATION.(research)
Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute; 6/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; Some systems of divination are used to select particular sections...Werbner's work on Kalanga and Tswapong divination provides a case-study of the detailed...Diviners have a multiple role when a divination technique selects a text. At each...
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Divination and Healing: Potent Vision/Singing Story, Healing Drum: Shamans and Storytellers of Turkic Siberia
Magazine article from: Western Folklore; 10/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; Divination and Healing: Potent Vision. Edited...25.00 paper) While healing, divination, and shamanistic modes of religiosity...folklorists and anthropologists working on divination and shamanism sidestep experiential...
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Divination
Book article from: -Ologies and -Isms
124. Divination See also 24. ASTROLOGY ; 174. FUTURE...aeromancy 1 . the art or science of divination by means of the air or winds. 2 . Humorous...alectoromancy, alectryomancy a form of divination by recording the letters revealed as...
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divination
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible
divination A supposed method of obtaining information. Divination was widely practised in the...of the god Apollo. Other divinations were made by observing the...girl who had a spirit of divination (‘soothsayer...
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Chapter 7: Prophecy and Divination
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained
Chapter 7 Prophecy and Divination Since the beginning of human history, men and women have sought out glimpses into the future. Soothsayers and seers have attempted...
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Chinese Religions, History of Science and Religion in China
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion
...Yin or Shang people for purposes of divination. Yin people believed that dead animals...of humans, in the spiritual world. Divination rituals were performed by three groups...of the cracks. In the case of royal divination, official recorders or archivists also...
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Prophets and Diviners
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained
...priests became adept in the practice of divination, finding signs in the organs and intestines...throughout the ancient world, practiced divination in several forms. The book of Genesis...Teraphim — instruments of divination whose oracles were held to be of the...
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