Babylonian Witchcraft Literature: Case Studies /

Babylonian Witchcraft Literature: Case Studies /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
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.
Subjects:
Witchcraft.
Magic, Assyro-Babylonian.
Incantations, Assyro-Babylonian.
Sorcellerie > Irak > Babylonie.
Magie assyro-babylonienne.
Witchcraft > Iraq > Babylonia.
Middle East > Babylonia.
Livres numeriques.
e-books.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.
  • 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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