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Mesopotamian Witchcraft

Towards a History and Understanding of Babylonian Witchcraft Beliefs and Literature

by Tzvi Abusch

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

Description

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This volume is about the history, literature, ritual, and thought associated with ancient Mesopotamian witchcraft. With chapters on the changing forms and roles of witchcraft beliefs, the ritual function, form, and development of the Maqlû text (the most important ancient work on the subject), and the meaning of the Maqlû ceremony, as well as the ideology of the final version of the text. The volume significantly contributes to our understanding of the Maqlû text, and the reconstruction of the development of thought about witchcraft and magic in Mesopotamia.

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

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

  • Ritual magic and grimoires

    Retained metadata contains “Magic” in the description and “Magic” in the subject metadata.

    • “Magic”· in description
    • “Magic”· in subject
  • Witchcraft and folk magic

    Controlled discovery queries from crossref, openalex, and wellcome matched “witchcraft”. Retained metadata contains “Witchcraft” in the title, “Witchcraft” in the subtitle, “Witchcraft” in the description, and 3 additional metadata match(es).

    • “witchcraft”· via Crossref
    • “witchcraft”· via OpenAlex
    • “witchcraft”· via Wellcome Collection
    • “Witchcraft”· in title
    • “Witchcraft”· in subtitle
    • “Witchcraft”· in description

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Towards a History and Understanding of Babylonian Witchcraft Beliefs and Literature

Crossref publisher-supplied book record

2002-01-01BRILLEnglish
  • 9789004123878
  • 9789004453395
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toward a history and understanding of Babylonian witchcraft beliefs and literature

Wellcome Collection bibliographic record

xvi, 314 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

2002Brill StyxEnglish
  • 9004123873
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Catalog id
crossref:10.1163/9789004453395
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