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.
Mesopotamian Witchcraft
Title | Mesopotamian Witchcraft PDF eBook |
Author | I. Tzvi Abusch |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 340 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 9789004123878 |
This volume is about the history, literature, ritual, and thought associated with ancient Mesopotamian witchcraft. With chapters on the changing forms and roles of witchcraft beliefs, the ritual function, form, and development of the Maqlû text (the most important ancient work on the subject), and the meaning of the Maqlû ceremony, as well as the ideology of the final version of the text. The volume significantly contributes to our understanding of the Maqlû text, and the reconstruction of the development of thought about witchcraft and magic in Mesopotamia.
Mesopotamian Witchcraft
Title | Mesopotamian Witchcraft PDF eBook |
Author | Tzvi Abusch |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 330 |
Release | 2021-07-26 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 9004453393 |
This volume is about the history, literature, ritual, and thought associated with ancient Mesopotamian witchcraft. With chapters on the changing forms and roles of witchcraft beliefs, the ritual function, form, and development of the Maqlû text (the most important ancient work on the subject), and the meaning of the Maqlû ceremony, as well as the ideology of the final version of the text. The volume significantly contributes to our understanding of the Maqlû text, and the reconstruction of the development of thought about witchcraft and magic in Mesopotamia.
Essays on Babylonian and Biblical Literature and Religion
Title | Essays on Babylonian and Biblical Literature and Religion PDF eBook |
Author | I. Tzvi Abusch |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 403 |
Release | 2020-08-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004435182 |
These studies take up several themes that the author has pursued in addition to his work on witchcraft literature and Gilgamesh. The volume contains general articles on Mesopotamian magic, religion, and mythology; studies, synchronic and diachronic, on Akkadian prayers; treatments of literary classics; comparative studies of terms and phenomena; and examinations of legal texts.
Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals
Title | Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals PDF eBook |
Author | Tzvi Abusch |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 657 |
Release | 2016-04-18 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 9004318550 |
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 | 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.
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.