Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-witchcraft Rituals
Title | Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-witchcraft Rituals PDF eBook |
Author | Tzvi Abusch |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 632 |
Release | 2010-12-17 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 9004189130 |
Mesopotamian anti-witchcraft rituals and prescriptions prescribe ceremonies and treatments for dispelling witchcraft, destroying the witch, and protecting and curing the patient. The Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-witchcraft Rituals aims to present a reconstruction and critical editions of this body of texts.
Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals
Title | Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals PDF eBook |
Author | Tzvi Abusch |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 598 |
Release | 2019-10-01 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 9004416277 |
Among the most important sources for understanding the cultures and systems of thought of ancient Mesopotamia is a large body of magical and medical texts written in the Sumerian and Akkadian languages. An especially significant branch of this literature centers upon witchcraft. Mesopotamian anti-witchcraft rituals and incantations attribute ill-health and misfortune to the magic machinations of witches and prescribe ceremonies, devices, and treatments for dispelling witchcraft, destroying the witch, and protecting and curing the patient. The Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals aims to present a reconstruction of this body of texts; it provides critical editions of the relevant rituals and prescriptions based on the study of the cuneiform tablets and fragments recovered from the libraries of ancient Mesopotamia.
Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals Glossaries and Indices
Title | Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals Glossaries and Indices PDF eBook |
Author | Greta Van Buylaere |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 171 |
Release | 2019-09-24 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 9004416250 |
Mesopotamian anti-witchcraft rituals and prescriptions prescribe ceremonies and treatments for dispelling witchcraft, destroying the witch, and protecting and curing the patient. The Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals aims to present a reconstruction and critical editions of this body of texts.
Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals
Title | Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals PDF eBook |
Author | I. Tzvi Abusch |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Incantations, Assyro-Babylonian |
ISBN | 9789004318540 |
La 4e de couverture porte : "Among the most important sources for understanding the cultures and systems of thought of ancient Mesopotamia is a large body of magical and medical texts written in the Sumerian and Akkadian languages. An especially significant branch of this literature centres upon witchcraft. Mesopotamian anti-witchcraft rituals and incantations attribute ill-health and misfortune to the magic machinations of witches and prescribe ceremonies, devices, and treatments for dispelling witchcraft, destroying the witch, and protecting and curing the patient. The 'Corpus of Mesopotamian anti-witchcraft rituals' aims to present a reconstruction of this body of texts; it provides critical editions of the relevant rituals and prescriptions based on the study of the cuneiform tablets and fragments recovered from the libraries of ancient Mesopotamia."
The Magical Ceremony Maqlû
Title | The Magical Ceremony Maqlû PDF eBook |
Author | Tzvi Abusch |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 424 |
Release | 2015-10-05 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 9004291709 |
The Akkadian series Maqlû is the most important magical text against witchcraft from Mesopotamia. This new edition of the standard text contains a synoptic edition of all manuscripts, a composite text in transliteration, an annotated transcription and translation.
Further Studies on Mesopotamian Witchcraft Beliefs and Literature
Title | Further Studies on Mesopotamian Witchcraft Beliefs and Literature PDF eBook |
Author | I. Tzvi Abusch |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Incantations, Assyro-Babylonian |
ISBN | 9789004421905 |
Further Studies on Mesopotamian Witchcraft offers a collection of studies of Akkadian incantations and rituals directed against witchcraft. Many of these essays offer solutions for literary and textual difficulties in these texts through analysis and reconstruction of their historical development.
Sources of Evil
Title | Sources of Evil PDF eBook |
Author | Greta Van Buylaere |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 396 |
Release | 2018-05-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004373349 |
Sources of Evil is a collection of thirteen essays on the knowledge employed by Mesopotamian healing experts to help patients who were suffering from misfortunes caused by divine anger, transgressions of taboos, demons, witches, or other sources of evil.