Research Catalog

Title

Legitimising magic : strategies and practices in Ancient Mesopotamia / edited by Nils P. Heessel, Elyze Zomer.

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Heessel, Nils P.
• Zomer, Elyze, 1987-

Description

210 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"As magic is a powerful means to influence the natural world and human beings, and is deeply connected to the divine sphere, persons using it are in constant need to justify its use. The ambivalence of magic to serve both well-wishing and ill-wishing aims puts the practitioners ever at risk. This volume illuminates the strategies adopted to legitimise the practice of magic and analyses how these justifications are phrased and formulated in cuneiform texts, thereby revealing the underlying principles and unexplained axioms of using magic in the Ancient Near East"--

Series Statement

Ancient magic and divination, 1566-7952 ; volume 21

Subject

• Magic, Assyro-Babylonian
• Magic > Iraq
• Witchcraft > Iraq
• Divination > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 24-1029

ISBN

• 9789004687400
• 9004687408
• 9789004687417 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2023043323

OCLC

1395537875

Title

Legitimising magic : strategies and practices in Ancient Mesopotamia / edited by Nils P. Heessel, Elyze Zomer.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Ancient magic and divination, 1566-7952 ; volume 21

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Heessel, Nils P., editor.

Zomer, Elyze, 1987- editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Legitimising magic Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023] 9789004687417 (DLC) 2023043324

Research Call Number

JFE 24-1029