Babylonian Witchcraft Literature: Case Studies /

"The studies in this volume focus on individual Babylonian magical texts while developing an overall understanding of these texts as a whole. Part One follows a diachronic approach, Part Two a synchronic one. In this sense, the studies are to be viewed broadly: while unravelling knots in indivi...

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Main Author: Abusch, I. Tzvi (Author)
Corporate Authors: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (sponsoring body.), National Endowment for the Humanities (sponsoring body.)
Other Authors: Satlow, Michael L. (editorial director.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Atlanta, Georgia : Scholars Press, 2020.
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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505 0 |a Part I: Secondary Developments and Synthetic Growth in Akkadian Incantations and Prayers: Some Case Studies in Literary and Textual History -- Part II: Maqlú I 1-36: An Interpretation. 
505 0 |a Introduction -- Problem, Hyphothesis and Illustration -- Maqlú VII 119-146 and Related Texts -- KAR 26 and EMS 12 -- Excursus -- Introduction -- Declaration of Innocence and Repudiation of Witch's Accusation -- Behavior of Witch: Verbal Adversaries and Witchcraft -- Meaning of I 1-36 and Observations on Maqlú I 73-121. 
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