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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
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Abusch, I. Tzvi (Author)
Corporate Authors: National Endowment for the Humanities (sponsoring body.), Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (sponsoring body.)
Other Authors: Satlow, Michael L. (editorial director.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Atlanta, Georgia : Scholars Press, 2020.
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Brown Judaic studies ; no. 132.
Subjects:
Incantations, Assyro-Babylonian.
Magic, Assyro-Babylonian.
Witchcraft > Iraq > Babylonia.
Magie assyro-babylonienne.
Sorcellerie > Irak > Babylonie.
Incantations, Assyro-Babylonian
Magic, Assyro-Babylonian
Witchcraft
Middle East > Babylonia
e-books.
Livres numériques.
Online Access:Texto completo
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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