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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Other Authors: | , , , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2018]
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| Series: | Ancient magic and divination ;
15. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Intro; Sources of Evil: Studies in Mesopotamian Exorcistic Lore; Copyright; Table of Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; Organizing Magical and Medical Knowledge; 1 The Exorcist's Manual: Structure, Language, Sitz im Leben; 2 Catalogues, Texts, and Specialists: Some Thoughts on the Aššur Medical Catalogue and Mesopotamian Healing Professions; Agents of Evil and Causes of Illness; 3 Identifying Divine Agency: The Hands of the Gods in Context; 4 Kamadme, the Sumerian Counterpart of the Demon Lamaštu
- 5 The Lion, the Witch, and the Wolf: Aggressive Magic and Witchcraft in the Old Babylonian PeriodRepelling Evil with Rituals, Amulets, and Incantations; 6 Evil Helpers: Instrumentalizing Agents of Evil in Anti-witchcraft Rituals; 7 Magico-medical Plants and Incantations on Assyrian House Amulets; 8 Alternative Models for the Development of Some Incantations; Concepts and Therapies of Illness; 9 Reusing Incantations and Making New from Old: On the Formation and Therapeutic Objective of the Muššuʼu ("Embrocation") Compendium
- 10 Tracing Mesopotamian Medical Knowledge: A Study of maškadu and Related IllnessesThe Living and the Ordered World in Exorcistic Lore; 11 Ina lumun attalî Sîn: On Evil and Lunar Eclipses; 12 Highway to Hell: The Winds as Cosmic Conveyors in Mesopotamian Incantation Texts; 13 The Göttertypentext as a Humanistic Mappa Mundi: An Essay; Indices