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An edition of Mesopotamian magic (1999)

Mesopotamian magic

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Styx Publications
Language
English
Pages
299

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Subjects
Magic, Assyro-Babylonian, Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian, Antiquities, Asian / Middle Eastern history, Cultural studies, Magic & alchemy, Iraq, Civilization, Assyro-Babylonia, Ancient - Egypt, Magick Studies, History, New Age / Body, Mind & Spirit, Interior Design - General, History: World, Mesopotamia, Ancient - General, Magic
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Cover of: Mesopotamian Magic
Mesopotamian Magic: Textual, Historical, and Interpretative Perspectives (Studies in Ancient Magic and Divination, 1)
September 2000, Brill Academic Publishers
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Mesopotamian magic: textual, historical, and interpretative perspectives
1999, Styx Publications
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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note:-I. Theoretical Perspectives
Wim van Binsbergen & Frans Wiggermann
Magic in History. A Theoretical Perspective, and its application to Ancient Mesopotamia 1
Niek Veldhuis
The Poetry of Magic 35
Mark J. Geller
Freud and Mesopotamian Magic 49
Marten Stol
Psychosomatic Suffering in Ancient Mesopotamia 57
JoAnn Scurlock
Physician, Exorcist, Conjurer, Magician: A Tale of Two Healing Professionals 69
-II. Surveys and Studies
Tzvi Abusch
Witchcraft and the Anger of the Personal God 81
Stefan M. Maul
How the Babylonians Protected Themselves against Calamities Announced by Omens 123
Alasdair Livingstone
The Magic of Time 131
Karel van der Toorn
Magic at the Cradle: A Reassessment 139
Eva A. Braun-Holzinger
Apotropaic Figures at Mesopotamian Temples in the Third and Second Millennia 149
Shaul Shaked
The Poetics of Spells. Language and Structure in Aramaic Incantations of Late Antiquity 173
Christa Miiller-Kessler
Interrelations between Mandaic Lead Scrolls and Incantation Bowls 197
Irving L. Finkel
On Some Dog, Snake and Scorpion Incantations 211
Antoine Cavigneaux
A Scholar's Library in Meturan? 253
William W Hallo
More Incantations and Rituals from the Yale Babylonian Collection 277
Wilfred G. Lambert
Marduk's Address to the Demons 293.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Series
Ancient magic and divination ;, 1

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
133.4/3/0935
Library of Congress
BF1591 .M47 1999, BF1591.M47 1999

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvii, 299 p. :
Number of pages
299

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6884414M
ISBN 10
9056930338
LCCN
00458442
OCLC/WorldCat
43442780
Library Thing
8023699
Goodreads
3112558

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