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Mesopotamian magic : textual, historical, and interpretative perspectives / editors, Tzvi Abusch, Karel van der Toorn.

Title
Mesopotamian magic : textual, historical, and interpretative perspectives / editors, Tzvi Abusch, Karel van der Toorn.
Publication
Groningen : Styx Publications, 1999.

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Additional Authors
  • Abusch, I. Tzvi.
  • Toorn, K. van der
  • Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Description
xvii, 299 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Series Statement
Ancient magic and divination ; 1
Uniform Title
Ancient magic and divination 1.
Subject
  • Magic, Assyro-Babylonian
  • Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian
  • Magic > history
  • Iraq > Antiquities
Note
  • Papers originally presented at a conference sponsored by and held at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS), June 6-9, 1995.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language (note)
  • English; some text in various cuneiform languages and Aramaic with English translations.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Magic in history : a theoretical perspective, and its application to Ancient Mesopotamia / Wim van Binsbergen & Frans Wiggermann -- The poetry of magic / Niek Veldhuis -- Freud and Mesopotamian magic / Mark J. Geller -- Psychosomatic suffering in ancient Mesopotamia / Marten Stol -- Physician, exorcist, conjurer, magician : a tale of two healing professionals / JoAnn Scurlock -- Witchcraft and the anger of the personal God / Tzvi Abusch -- How the Babylonians protected themselves against calamities announced by omens / Stefan M. Maul -- The magic of time / Alasdair Livingstone -- Magic at the cradle / Karel van der Toorn -- Apotropaic figures at Mesopotamian temples in the third and second millennia / Eva A. Braun-Hozinger -- The poetics of spells : language and structure in Aramaic incantations of Late Antiquity / Shaul Shaked -- Interrelations between Mandaic lead scrolls and incantation bowls / Christa Müller-Kessler -- On some dog, snake and scorpion incantations / Irving L. Finkel -- A scholar's library in Meturan? / Antoine Cavigneaux -- More incantations and rituals from the Yale Babylonian collection / William W. Hallo -- Marduk's address to the demons / Wilfred G. Lambert.
ISBN
9056930338
OCLC
  • 43442780
  • SCSB-10272901
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library