Corpus Of Mesopotamian Anti Witchcraft Rituals Glossaries And Indices

Author : Greta Van Buylaere
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004416250
Total Pages : 171 pages
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Download or read book Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals Glossaries and Indices written by Greta Van Buylaere and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Tzvi Abusch
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004214895
Total Pages : 631 pages
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Download or read book Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-witchcraft Rituals written by Tzvi Abusch and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-12-17 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Tzvi Abusch
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004416277
Total Pages : 598 pages
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Download or read book Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals written by Tzvi Abusch and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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Author : I. Tzvi Abusch
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ISBN 13 : 9789004318540
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals written by I. Tzvi Abusch and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."

Author : Greta Van Buylaere
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004373349
Total Pages : 396 pages
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Download or read book Sources of Evil written by Greta Van Buylaere and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : I. Tzvi Abusch
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ISBN 13 : 9789004421905
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Further Studies on Mesopotamian Witchcraft Beliefs and Literature written by I. Tzvi Abusch and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Karen Sonik
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1949057119
Total Pages : 488 pages
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Download or read book Art/ifacts and ArtWorks in the Ancient World written by Karen Sonik and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2021-08-13 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is dedicated to Dr. Holly Pittman, Bok Family Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania and curator of the Near Eastern Section at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Penn Museum). It was conceived to honor her extraordinary contributions to the field of Near Eastern studies as archaeologist, art historian, mentor, professor, and friend--Foreword.

Author : Tzvi Abusch
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004291709
Total Pages : 424 pages
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Download or read book The Magical Ceremony Maqlû written by Tzvi Abusch and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Daniel Schwemer
Publisher : Harrassowitz
ISBN 13 : 9783447107709
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Anti-witchcraft Ritual Maqlû written by Daniel Schwemer and published by Harrassowitz. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book examines the epigraphy and history of transmission of the cuneiform sources of the Maqlû antiwitchcraft ritual, one of the major compositions of ancient Mesopotamian exorcistic lore ... the manuscripts are presented in 'hand-copies' (technical drawings) on the plates in the second half of the book."--Preface, p. [vii].