Mesopotamian magic
Subtitle: textual, historical, and interpretative perspectives
By: editors, Tzvi Abusch, Karel van der Toorn.
Contributors: Abusch, I. Tzvi.; Toorn, K. van der.
Series: Ancient magic and divination ;; 1
Publisher: Styx Publications
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Groningen
Language: eng; arc
Number of pages: 299
Subjects: Magic, Assyro-Babylonian.; Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian.; Iraq -- Antiquities.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:-I. Theoretical Perspectives; title: Wim van Binsbergen & Frans Wiggermann; title: Magic in History. A Theoretical Perspective, and its application to Ancient Mesopotamia 1; title: Niek Veldhuis; title: The Poetry of Magic 35; title: Mark J. Geller; title: Freud and Mesopotamian Magic 49; title: Marten Stol; title: Psychosomatic Suffering in Ancient Mesopotamia 57; title: JoAnn Scurlock; title: Physician, Exorcist, Conjurer, Magician: A Tale of Two Healing Professionals 69; title: -II. Surveys and Studies; title: Tzvi Abusch; title: Witchcraft and the Anger of the Personal God 81; title: Stefan M. Maul; title: How the Babylonians Protected Themselves against Calamities Announced by Omens 123; title: Alasdair Livingstone; title: The Magic of Time 131; title: Karel van der Toorn; title: Magic at the Cradle: A Reassessment 139; title: Eva A. Braun-Holzinger; title: Apotropaic Figures at Mesopotamian Temples in the Third and Second Millennia 149; title: Shaul Shaked; title: The Poetics of Spells. Language and Structure in Aramaic Incantations of Late Antiquity 173; title: Christa Miiller-Kessler; title: Interrelations between Mandaic Lead Scrolls and Incantation Bowls 197; title: Irving L. Finkel; title: On Some Dog, Snake and Scorpion Incantations 211; title: Antoine Cavigneaux; title: A Scholar's Library in Meturan? 253; title: William W Hallo; title: More Incantations and Rituals from the Yale Babylonian Collection 277; title: Wilfred G. Lambert; title: Marduk's Address to the Demons 293.