Further studies on Mesopotamian witchcraft beliefs and literature

"Among the most important sources for understanding the cultures, religions, and systems of thought of ancient Mesopotamia is the large corpus of magical and medical texts directed against witchcraft. The most important of these texts is the Akkadian series Maqlû ("Burning"). This vol...

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Autor principal: Abusch, Tzvi 1940- (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Print Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
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Publicado: Leiden Boston Brill [2020]
En: Ancient magic and divination (volume 17)
Año: 2020
Colección / Revista:Ancient magic and divination volume 17
(Cadenas de) Palabra clave estándar:B Mesopotamien / Magia apotropaica / Texto cuneiforme / Creencia en la existencia de brujas
Otras palabras clave:B Ritual (Iraq)
B Maqlû
B Witchcraft (Iraq)
B Magic, Assyro-Babylonian
B Incantations, Assyro-Babylonian
Parallel Edition:Electrónico
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Sumario:"Among the most important sources for understanding the cultures, religions, and systems of thought of ancient Mesopotamia is the large corpus of magical and medical texts directed against witchcraft. The most important of these texts is the Akkadian series Maqlû ("Burning"). This volume offers a collection of studies on Mesopotamian witchcraft and Maqlû written subsequent to the appearance of the author's 2002 collection of studies on witchcraft (Brill, 2002). Many of the studies reprinted here take a diachronic approach to individual incantations and rituals and attempt to solve textual difficulties using literary-critical and/or text-critical approaches"--
Notas:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:9004421904