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Libra Esoterica

Further studies on Mesopotamian witchcraft beliefs and literature

by I. Tzvi Abusch

  • First published:
  • 21st century
  • Language: English

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Among the most important sources for understanding the cultures, religions, and systems of thought of ancient Mesopotamia is the large corpus of magical and medical texts directed against witchcraft. The most important of these texts is the Akkadian series Maqlû ("Burning"). This volume offers a collection of studies on Mesopotamian witchcraft and Maqlû written subsequent to the appearance of the author's 2002 collection of studies on witchcraft (Brill, 2002). Many of the studies reprinted here take a diachronic approach to individual incantations and rituals and attempt to solve textual difficulties using literary-critical and/or text-critical approaches — -

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ritual magic and grimoires and Witchcraft and folk magic.

  • Ritual magic and grimoires

    Controlled discovery queries from harvard matched “ritual magic”. Retained metadata contains “Magic” in the subject metadata.

    • “ritual magic”· via Harvard LibraryCloud
    • “Magic”· in subject
  • Witchcraft and folk magic

    Retained metadata contains “Witchcraft” in the title, “Witchcraft” in the description, “Witchcraft” in the subject metadata, and 1 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Witchcraft”· in title
    • “Witchcraft”· in description
    • “Witchcraft”· in subject
    • “Witchcraft”· in edition title

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xvi, 240 pages ; 25 cm.

2020BrillEnglish
  • 9789004421905
  • 9789004421912
  • 9004421904
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