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Sources of evil : studies in Mesopotamian exorcistic lore /
"Sources of Evil: Studies in Mesopotamian Exorcistic Lore' is a collection of thirteen essays on the body of knowledge employed by ancient Near Eastern healing experts, most prominently the 'exorcist' and the 'physician', to help patients who were suffering from misfort...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autres auteurs: | , , , |
| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
| Publié: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2018]
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| Collection: | Ancient magic and divination ;
15. |
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | "Sources of Evil: Studies in Mesopotamian Exorcistic Lore' is a collection of thirteen essays on the body of knowledge employed by ancient Near Eastern healing experts, most prominently the 'exorcist' and the 'physician', to help patients who were suffering from misfortunes caused by divine anger, transgressions of taboos, demons, witches, or other sources of evil. The volume provides new insights into the two most important catalogues of Mesopotamian therapeutic lore, the Exorcist's Manual and the Assur Medical Catalogue, and contains discussions of agents of evil and causes of illness, ways of repelling evil and treating patients, the interpretation of natural phenomena in the context of exorcistic lore, and a description of the symbolic cosmos with its divine and demonic inhabitants."--Back cover |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (xiii, 382 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004373341 9004373349 |
| ISSN: | 1566-7952 ; |