Corpus of Mesopotamian anti-witchcraft rituals. Volume 1 /

Among the most important sources for understanding the cultures and systems of thought of ancient Mesopotamia is a large body of magical and medical texts written in the Sumerian and Akkadian languages. An especially significant branch of this literature centres upon witchcraft. Mesopotamian anti-wi...

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Other Authors: Abusch, I. Tzvi., Schwemer, Daniel.

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Language: English
Akkadian
Sumerian

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

Series: Ancient Magic and Divination 8/1.
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2011, ISBN: 9789004222748.

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Call Number: BF1567 .C67 2011

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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 0 |a Preliminary Material -- The Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals Ancient Mesopotamian Witchcraft Beliefs -- Texts of Group One Prescriptions for Undoing Witchcraft (Ana Pišerti Kišpī) -- Texts of Group Two Prescriptions to be Used for Bewitched Persons (Šumma Amēlu Kašip) -- Texts of Group Seven Ušburruda Texts -- Texts of Group Eight Ceremonial Rituals for Undoing Witchcraft -- Texts of Group Nine Anti-Witchcraft Incantations Within Bīt Rimki and Related Texts -- Texts of Group Ten Rituals Against Zikurudû and Other Special Types of Witchcraft -- Texts of Group Eleven Rituals in Case of Evil Omens Indicating Witchcraft -- Texts of Group Twelve Diagnostic Texts -- Bibliography -- Concordances -- Registers -- Copies of Cuneiform Texts -- Collations. 
506 |a Available to subscribing member institutions only. 
520 |a Among the most important sources for understanding the cultures and systems of thought of ancient Mesopotamia is a large body of magical and medical texts written in the Sumerian and Akkadian languages. An especially significant branch of this literature centres upon witchcraft. Mesopotamian anti-witchcraft rituals and incantations attribute ill-health and misfortune to the magic machinations of witches and prescribe ceremonies, devices, and treatments for dispelling witchcraft, destroying the witch, and protecting and curing the patient. The Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-witchcraft Rituals aims to present a reconstruction of this body of texts; it provides critical editions of the relevant rituals and prescriptions based on the study of the cuneiform tablets and fragments recovered from the libraries of ancient Mesopotamia. This is the first volume in the three-part Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-witchcraft Rituals series . Volumes two and three are expected in 2015 and 2018 respectively. \'Even in its incomplete form, Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals is a major contribution to the study of witchcraft, supernatural belief, folk medicine (both supernatural and non-supernatural), theories of magic, incantations, and ritual. This edition is required reading for any scholar with an interest in these topics.\' David Elton Gay, Indiana University 
546 |a Includes English translations of texts originally composed in the Sumerian and Akkadian languages. 
650 0 |a Incantations, Assyro-Babylonian. 
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650 0 |a Witchcraft  |z Iraq  |x History  |y To 1500  |v Sources. 
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700 1 |a Schwemer, Daniel. 
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