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Jewish Aramaic curse texts from late-antique Mesopotamia : "may these curses go out and flee"
- Title
- Jewish Aramaic curse texts from late-antique Mesopotamia : "may these curses go out and flee" / by Dan Levene.
- Author
- Levene, Dan
- Publication
- Leiden : Brill, 2013.
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 164 pages : illustrations; 29 cm
- Summary
- The corpus of Aramaic incantation bowls from Sasanian Mesopotamia is perhaps the most important source we have for studying the everyday beliefs and practices of the Jewish, Christian, Mandaean, Manichaean, Zoroastrian and Pagan communities on the eve of the Islamic conquests. In this book, Dan Levene collects and analyses a selection of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic incantation bowls. While such texts are usually apotropaic or healing in purpose, those collected here are distinctive in that their purpose was to curse or return curses against human adversaries. This book presents new editions of thirty texts, of which fourteen are edited here for the first time, with an introduction, commentary, analysis and glossaries, as well as photographs.
- Series Statement
- Magical and Religious Literature of Late Antiquity ; 2
- Uniform Title
- Magical and religious literature of late antiquity ; 2.
- Subjects
- Inscriptions, Aramaic
- Vorderasiatisches Museum (Berlin, Germany)
- Incantation bowls
- Incantations, Aramaic
- Archaeology > Private collections
- British Museum Archaeological collections
- History
- British Museum
- Jews > Antiquities
- Jewish magic > History
- Vorderasiatisches Museum (Berlin, Germany) Archaeological collections
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-162) and index.
- Call Number
- *PED 16-263
- ISBN
- 9789004250925
- 9004250921
- 9789004257269
- 9004257268
- LCCN
- 2013024746
- OCLC
- 849801337
- Author
- Levene, Dan, author.
- Title
- Jewish Aramaic curse texts from late-antique Mesopotamia : "may these curses go out and flee" / by Dan Levene.
- Imprint
- Leiden : Brill, 2013.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Magical and Religious Literature of Late Antiquity ; 2Magical and religious literature of late antiquity ; 2.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-162) and index.
- Research Call Number
- *PED 16-263