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8 - Foresight in Ancient Mesopotamia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 October 2016

By
Francesca Rochberg
Edited by
Lawrence W. Sherman  and
David Allan Feller
Lawrence W. Sherman
Affiliation:
Darwin College, Cambridge
David Allan Feller
Affiliation:
Darwin College, Cambridge
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Foresight , pp. 157 - 175
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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Loveridge, Denis (2009) Foresight: The Art and Science of Anticipating the Future. New York and London: RoutledgeGoogle Scholar
Loveridge, Denis (2001) ‘Foresight – Seven Paradoxes,’ International Journal of Technology Management 21, 781.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Oppenheim, A. L. (1974) ‘A Babylonian Diviner’s Manual,’ JNES 33, 205CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Marcus, Alfred (2009) Strategic Foresight: A New Look at Scenarios. New York: Palgrave and MacMillanCrossRefGoogle Scholar
Goetze, A. (1968) ‘An Old Babylonian Prayer of the Divination Priest,’ Journal of Cuneiform Studies 22, 25CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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