Mesopotamian Magic: Textual, Historical and Interpretative Perspectives
Styx Publications (Verlag)
978-90-5693-033-2 (ISBN)
This volume, edited by Tzvi Zbusch and Karel van der Toorn, contains the papers delivered at the first international conference on Mesopotamian magic held under the auspices of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS) in June 1995. It is the first collective volume dedicated to the study of this topic. It aims at serving as a bench-mark and provides analytic and innovative but also sythetic and programmatic essays. Magical texts, forms, and traditions from the Mesopotamian cultural worlds of the third millennium BCE through the first millennium CE, in the Sumerian, Akkadian and Aramaic languages as well as in art, are examined.
Part 1 Theoretical perspectives: magic in history - a theoretical perspective and its application to ancient Mesopotamia, Wim van Binsbergen and 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. Part 2 Surveys and studies: 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 - a reasessment, Karel van der Toorn; apotropaic figures at Mesopotamian temples in the 3rd and 2nd millennia, Eva A. Braun-Holzinger; the poetics of spells -language and structure in Aramaic incantations of late antiquity, Shaul Shaked; interrelations betwen Mandaic lead scrolls and incantation bowls, Christa Muller-Kessler. Part 3 Texts: 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.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.1.2000 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Ancient Magic and Divination ; 1 |
| Verlagsort | Leiden |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 823 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen | |
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| ISBN-10 | 90-5693-033-8 / 9056930338 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-90-5693-033-2 / 9789056930332 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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