Babylonian Witchcraft Literature: Case Studies / I. Tzvi Abusch.

The studies in this volume focus on individual Babylonian magical texts while developing an overall understanding of these texts as a whole. Part One follows a diachronic approach, Part Two a synchronic one. In this sense, the studies are to be viewed broadly: while unravelling knots in individual t...

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Place / Publishing House:Atlanta : : Scholars Press,, 2020.
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Year of Publication:2020
Edition:Second edition.
Language:English
Akkadian
Series:Brown judaic studies; 132
Physical Description:1 online resource (xviii, 154 p. ); Grayscale Illustration
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Secondary Developments and Synthetic Growth in Akkadian Incantations and Prayers: Some Case Studies in Literary and Textual History
  • Part II: Maqlú I 1-36: An Interpretation.
  • Introduction
  • Problem, Hyphothesis and Illustration
  • Maqlú VII 119-146 and Related Texts
  • KAR 26 and EMS 12
  • Excursus
  • Introduction
  • Declaration of Innocence and Repudiation of Witch's Accusation
  • Behavior of Witch: Verbal Adversaries and Witchcraft
  • Meaning of I 1-36 and Observations on Maqlú I 73-121.