Cursed Are You! : : The Phenomenology of Cursing in Cuneiform and Hebrew Texts / / Anne Marie Kitz.
This is a book about curses. It is not about curses as insults or offensive language but curses as petitions to the divine world to render judgment and execute harm on identified, hostile forces.In the ancient world, curses functioned in a way markedly different from our own, and it is into the worl...
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Kitz, Anne Marie, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Cursed Are You! : The Phenomenology of Cursing in Cuneiform and Hebrew Texts / Anne Marie Kitz. University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2021] ©2014 1 online resource (536 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star This is a book about curses. It is not about curses as insults or offensive language but curses as petitions to the divine world to render judgment and execute harm on identified, hostile forces.In the ancient world, curses functioned in a way markedly different from our own, and it is into the world of the ancient Near East that we must go in order to appreciate the scope of their influence. For the ancient Near Easterners, curses had authentic meaning. Curses were part of their life and religion. They were not inherently magic or features of superstitions, nor were they mere curiosities or trifling antidotes. They were real and effective. They were employed proactively and reactively to manage life's many vicissitudes and maintain social harmony. They were principally protective, but they were also the cause of misfortune, illness, depression, and anything else that undermined a comfortable, well-balanced life. Every member of society used them, from slave to king, from young to old, from men and women to the deities themselves. They crossed cultural lines and required little or no explanation, for curses were the source of great evil. In other words, curses were universal.Because curses were woven into the very fabric of every known ancient Near Eastern society, they emerge frequently and in a wide variety of venues. They appear on public and private display objects, on tomb stelae, tomb lintels, and sarcophagi, on ancient kudurrus and narûs. They are used in political, administrative, social, religious, and familial contexts. They are the subject of incantations. They are tools that exorcise demons and dispel disease; they ban, protect, and heal.This is the phenomenology of cursing in the ancient Near East, and this is what the present work explores. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Mai 2022) Akkadian language Semantics. Blessing and cursing History Middle East. Blessing and cursing Middle East History. Cuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian. Hebrew language Sematics, Historical. Phenomenology. HISTORY / Ancient / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110745252 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781575068749?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781575068749 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781575068749/original |
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