Mesopotamian Magic: Textual, Historical, and Interpretative Perspectives

Abusch, I. Tzvi (Editor)/ Van Der Toorn, Karel/ Abusch, Tzvi/ Toorn, K. Van Der (Editor)

ISBN 10: 9056930338 / ISBN 13: 9789056930332

Published by Styx Pub, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mesopotamian Magic: Textual, Historical, and Interpretative Perspectives
• Publisher: Styx Pub
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9056930338
• ISBN 13: 9789056930332
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.82 kilograms

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Synopsis

This volume, edited by Tzvi Zbusch and Karel van der Toorn, contains the papers delivered at the first international conference on Mesopotamian magic held under the auspices of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS) in June 1995. It is the first collective volume dedicated to the study of this topic. It aims at serving as a bench-mark and provides analytic and innovative but also sythetic and programmatic essays. Magical texts, forms, and traditions from the Mesopotamian cultural worlds of the third millennium BCE through the first millennium CE, in the Sumerian, Akkadian and Aramaic languages as well as in art, are examined.