Cursed are you! : the phenomenology of cursing in cuneiform and Hebrew texts /

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This is a book about curses. It is not about curses as insults or offensive language but curses as petitions to the divine world to render judgment and execute harm on identified, hostile forces.In the ancient world, curses functioned in a way markedly different from our own, and it is into the worl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kitz, Anne Marie
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Winona Lake, Indiana : Eisenbrauns, 2013.
Temas:
Bible. > Old Testament > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible. > Old Testament
Bible. > A.T. > Critique textuelle.
Blessing and cursing > Middle East > History.
Cuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian.
Akkadian language > Semantics.
Hebrew language > Sematics, Historical.
Phenomenology.
Inscriptions cunéiformes akkadiennes.
Akkadien (Langue) > Sémantique.
Phénoménologie.
phenomenology.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Parapsychology > General.
Blessing and cursing
Cuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian
Phenomenology
Phenomenologie.
Benediction et malediction > Narration dans la Bible.
Religion assyro-babylonienne.
Benediction et malediction.
Incantations.
Middle East
Mesopotamie.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Chronology Of Languages
  • Introduction: Curse in the Ancient Near East
  • Recent Scholarly Approaches to Curses
  • Vows, Oaths, and Curses
  • The Types of Curses
  • Conditional Cursing
  • The Effectiveness of Maledictions by the Deities
  • The Productivity of Curses by Human Beings
  • Executioner Deities, Hypostatization, and the Agents of Curses
  • The Purpose of Curses
  • The Process behind Curses
  • Barriers, Boundaries and Written Display Curses
  • Of Nets and Arms and Webs of Words
  • Of Nets and Arms and Webs of WordsCurse Management
  • Curse Practitioners: The Lay Curser
  • Curse Practitioners: The Professionals
  • Curse Practitioners: Antagonistic Semi-Professionals
  • Curse-Acts
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Authors
  • Index of Scripture

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