Author: Greta Van Buylaere
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004416250
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
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 Glossaries and Indices
Author: Greta Van Buylaere
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004416250
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
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.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004416250
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
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
Author: Tzvi Abusch
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004214895
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 631
Book Description
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.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004214895
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 631
Book Description
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
Author: Tzvi Abusch
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004416277
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
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.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004416277
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
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
Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-witchcraft Rituals
Author: I. Tzvi Abusch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incantations, Assyro-Babylonian
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incantations, Assyro-Babylonian
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Further Studies on Mesopotamian Witchcraft Beliefs and Literature
Author: I. Tzvi Abusch
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789004421905
Category : Incantations, Assyro-Babylonian
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789004421905
Category : Incantations, Assyro-Babylonian
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Art/ifacts and ArtWorks in the Ancient World
Author: Karen Sonik
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1949057119
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1949057119
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
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.
The Magical Ceremony Maqlû
Author: Tzvi Abusch
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004291709
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
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.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004291709
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
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.
Sources of Evil
Author: Greta Van Buylaere
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004373349
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
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.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004373349
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
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.
The Anti-witchcraft Ritual Maqlû
Author: Daniel Schwemer
Publisher: Harrassowitz
ISBN: 9783447107709
Category : Akkadian language
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"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].
Publisher: Harrassowitz
ISBN: 9783447107709
Category : Akkadian language
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"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].