Babylonian Witchcraft Literature: Case Studies

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 individual t...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Brown University (-)
Other Authors: Abusch, I. Tzvi, author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Atlanta : Brown Judaic Studies 2020
2020.
Edition:Second edition
Series:Brown judaic studies; 132
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009431177406719
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.