Cursed are you!
Subtitle: the phenomenology of cursing in cuneiform and Hebrew texts
By: Anne Marie Kitz
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Winona Lake, Indiana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9781575062716
Subjects: Bible; Akkadian Cuneiform inscriptions; Blessing and cursing; Phenomenology; Criticism, interpretation; Oude Testament; Akkadian language; Semantics; Vervloekingen; Akkadisch; Hebrew language; Historical Sematics; History
Description: xi, 528 pages : 24 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 472-509) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Curse in the ancient Near East; title: Part 1. The operation of curses. Recent scholarly approaches to curses; title: Vows, oaths, and curses; title: The types of curses; title: Conditional cursing; title: The effectiveness of maledictions by the deities; title: The productivity of curses by human beings; title: Executioner deities, hypostatization, and the agents of curses; title: Part 2. Cursing and society. The purpose of curses; title: The process behind curses; title: Barriers, boundaries, and written display curses; title: Of nets and arms and webs of words : drawing circules and twisting cords; title: Of nets and arms and webs of words : weapons and other images; title: Curse management; title: Curse practitioners : the lay curser; title: Curse practitioners : the professionals; title: Curse practitioners : antagonistic semi-professionals; title: Curse-acts.