Mesopotamian Magic
Title | Mesopotamian Magic PDF eBook |
Author | I. Tzvi Abusch |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 328 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9789056930332 |
This volume, edited by Tzvi Zbusch and Karel van der Toorn, contains the papers delivered at the first international conference on Mesopotamian magic held under the auspices of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS) in June 1995. It is the first collective volume dedicated to the study of this topic. It aims at serving as a bench-mark and provides analytic and innovative but also sythetic and programmatic essays. Magical texts, forms, and traditions from the Mesopotamian cultural worlds of the third millennium BCE through the first millennium CE, in the Sumerian, Akkadian and Aramaic languages as well as in art, are examined.
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.
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.
Mesopotamian Medicine and Magic
Title | Mesopotamian Medicine and Magic PDF eBook |
Author | Strahil V. Panayotov |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 968 |
Release | 2018-10-22 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004368086 |
Mesopotamian Medicine and Magic. Studies in Honour of Markham J. Geller offers 34 brand-new text editions and analytical studies concerned with diverse healing traditions and practices in Ancient Western Asia.
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.
Magico-Medical Means of Treating Ghost-Induced Illnesses in Ancient Mesopotamia
Title | Magico-Medical Means of Treating Ghost-Induced Illnesses in Ancient Mesopotamia PDF eBook |
Author | JoAnn Scurlock |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 800 |
Release | 2005-12-01 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 9047404173 |
This work explores the interaction between magic and medicine in ancient Mesopotamia, as applied specifically to ghosts. Included is a discussion of sin and natural causes in Mesopotamian medicine. Additionally, it transliterates and translates 352 prescriptions designed to cure psychological and physical ailments thought to be caused by ghosts.
Legitimising Magic
Title | Legitimising Magic PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 223 |
Release | 2023-12-11 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 9004687416 |
As magic is a powerful means to influence the natural world and human beings, and is deeply connected to the divine sphere, persons using it are in constant need to justify its use. The ambivalence of magic to serve both well-wishing and ill-wishing aims puts the practitioners ever at risk. This volume illuminates the strategies adopted to legitimise the practice of magic and analyses how these justifications are phrased and formulated in cuneiform texts, thereby revealing the underlying principles and unexplained axioms of using magic in the Ancient Near East.