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Book Synopsis Mesopotamian Magic by : I. Tzvi Abusch
Download or read book Mesopotamian Magic written by I. Tzvi Abusch and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1999 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Mesopotamian Witchcraft by : Tzvi Abusch
Download or read book Mesopotamian Witchcraft written by Tzvi Abusch and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-07-26 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals by : Tzvi Abusch
Download or read book Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals written by Tzvi Abusch and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mesopotamian anti-witchcraft rituals and prescriptions prescribe ceremonies and treatments for dispelling witchcraft, destroying the witch, and protecting and curing the patient. The Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals aims to present a reconstruction and critical editions of this body of texts.
Book Synopsis Mesopotamian Medicine and Magic by : Strahil V. Panayotov
Download or read book Mesopotamian Medicine and Magic written by Strahil V. Panayotov and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-10-22 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mesopotamian Medicine and Magic. Studies in Honour of Markham J. Geller offers 34 brand-new text editions and analytical studies concerned with diverse healing traditions and practices in Ancient Western Asia.
Download or read book Legitimising Magic written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-12-11 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As magic is a powerful means to influence the natural world and human beings, and is deeply connected to the divine sphere, persons using it are in constant need to justify its use. The ambivalence of magic to serve both well-wishing and ill-wishing aims puts the practitioners ever at risk. This volume illuminates the strategies adopted to legitimise the practice of magic and analyses how these justifications are phrased and formulated in cuneiform texts, thereby revealing the underlying principles and unexplained axioms of using magic in the Ancient Near East.
Book Synopsis Mesopotamian Witchcraft by : I. Tzvi Abusch
Download or read book Mesopotamian Witchcraft written by I. Tzvi Abusch and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2002 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Magico-Medical Means of Treating Ghost-Induced Illnesses in Ancient Mesopotamia by : JoAnn Scurlock
Download or read book Magico-Medical Means of Treating Ghost-Induced Illnesses in Ancient Mesopotamia written by JoAnn Scurlock and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work explores the interaction between magic and medicine in ancient Mesopotamia, as applied specifically to ghosts. Included is a discussion of sin and natural causes in Mesopotamian medicine. Additionally, it transliterates and translates 352 prescriptions designed to cure psychological and physical ailments thought to be caused by ghosts.
Book Synopsis Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World by : Scott Noegel
Download or read book Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World written by Scott Noegel and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the religious systems of ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Mediterranean, gods and demigods were neither abstract nor distant, but communicated with mankind through signs and active intervention. Men and women were thus eager to interpret, appeal to, and even control the gods and their agents. In Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World, a distinguished array of scholars explores the many ways in which people in the ancient world sought to gain access to--or, in some cases, to bind or escape from--the divine powers of heaven and earth. Grounded in a variety of disciplines, including Assyriology, Classics, and early Islamic history, the fifteen essays in this volume cover a broad geographic area: Greece, Egypt, Syria-Palestine, Mesopotamia, and Persia. Topics include celestial divination in early Mesopotamia, the civic festivals of classical Athens, and Christian magical papyri from Coptic Egypt. Moving forward to Late Antiquity, we see how Judaism, Christianity, and Islam each incorporated many aspects of ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman religion into their own prayers, rituals, and conceptions. Even if they no longer conceived of the sun, moon, and the stars as eternal or divine, Christians, Jews, and Muslims often continued to study the movements of the heavens as a map on which divine power could be read. The reader already familiar with studies of ancient religion will find in Prayer, Magic, and the Stars both old friends and new faces. Contributors include Gideon Bohak, Nicola Denzey, Jacco Dieleman, Radcliffe Edmonds, Marvin Meyer, Michael G. Morony, Ian Moyer, Francesca Rochberg, Jonathan Z. Smith, Mark S. Smith, Peter Struck, Michael Swartz, and Kasia Szpakowska. Published as part of Penn State's Magic in History series, Prayer, Magic, and the Stars appears at a time of renewed interest in divination and occult practices in the ancient world. It will interest a wide audience in the field of comparative religion as well as students of the ancient world and late antiquity.
Download or read book Mesopotamian Magic written by Joshua Free and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Mardukite Heritage Edition: A reissue of an otherwise cycled out-of-print edition kept available for review and posterity as part of the developmental legacy of the Mardukite Research Organization, founded 2008.] A master compilation of mystical exploration into the heart of the ancient Mesopotamian Mysteries, this complete practical companion to the Mardukite "Necronomicon Anunnaki Cycle" illuminates the revolutionary teachings and source materials of the Modern Sumerian-Babylonian-Anunnaki Tradition of the Mardukite Chamberlains (Ordo Nabu Maerdechai), edited by Joshua Free, the presiding Nabu of the organization since its inception. MESOPOTAMIAN MAGIC is a highly innovative and accessible anthology of the complete "Year-3" research and development of the Mardukite Research Organization including three volumes ("Magan Magic," "Maqlu Magic" and "Beyond the Ishtar Gate") in a single incredible compilation! In MAGAN MAGIC: THE ENUMA ELIS (Liber-E) amazing cuneiform tablet records of magick and creation are drawn together to reconstruct the most antiquated, powerful and legendary "magician's primer" ever known to the minds of men --formulated by the ancient Sumerians and Babylonians! MAQLU MAGIC (Liber-M) reveals an authentic "Necronomicon Spellbook" of advanced Mesopotamian Magick drawn from the sands of Babylonia forming a complete Anunnaki ('alien sky god') "grimoire" used by magicians and priests for thousands of years to combat in wizards' duels, reverse the effects of evil spells and curses, banish disease and nightmares, and conjure the protection and blessings of the gods! Finally, BEYOND THE ISHTAR GATE (Liber C) is concerned with the 'other side' of the tradition, parts that have been concealed and yet also what made the tradition famous - mainly, the connection to the "Other," that which we have been programmed to perceive as 'separate' from this reality.
Book Synopsis Sources of Evil by : Greta Van Buylaere
Download or read book Sources of Evil written by Greta Van Buylaere and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sources of Evil is a collection of thirteen essays on the knowledge employed by Mesopotamian healing experts to help patients who were suffering from misfortunes caused by divine anger, transgressions of taboos, demons, witches, or other sources of evil.
Book Synopsis Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals by : Tzvi Abusch
Download or read book Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals written by Tzvi Abusch and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the most important sources for understanding the cultures and systems of thought of ancient Mesopotamia is a large body of magical and medical texts written in the Sumerian and Akkadian languages. An especially significant branch of this literature centers upon witchcraft. Mesopotamian anti-witchcraft rituals and incantations attribute ill-health and misfortune to the magic machinations of witches and prescribe ceremonies, devices, and treatments for dispelling witchcraft, destroying the witch, and protecting and curing the patient. The Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals aims to present a reconstruction of this body of texts; it provides critical editions of the relevant rituals and prescriptions based on the study of the cuneiform tablets and fragments recovered from the libraries of ancient Mesopotamia.
Book Synopsis Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals Glossaries and Indices by : Greta Van Buylaere
Download or read book Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals Glossaries and Indices written by Greta Van Buylaere and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mesopotamian anti-witchcraft rituals and prescriptions prescribe ceremonies and treatments for dispelling witchcraft, destroying the witch, and protecting and curing the patient. The Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals aims to present a reconstruction and critical editions of this body of texts.
Book Synopsis Healing Magic and Evil Demons by : Markham J. Geller
Download or read book Healing Magic and Evil Demons written by Markham J. Geller and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 735 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together ancient manuscripts of the large compendium of Mesopotamian exorcistic incantations known as Udug.hul (Utukku Lemnutu), directed against evil demons, ghosts, gods, and other demonic malefactors within the Mesopotamian view of the world.It allows for a more accurate appraisal of variants arising from a text tradition spread over more than two millennia and from many ancient libraries.
Book Synopsis Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-witchcraft Rituals by : Tzvi Abusch
Download or read book Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-witchcraft Rituals written by Tzvi Abusch and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-12-17 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mesopotamian anti-witchcraft rituals and prescriptions prescribe ceremonies and treatments for dispelling witchcraft, destroying the witch, and protecting and curing the patient. The Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-witchcraft Rituals aims to present a reconstruction and critical editions of this body of texts.
Book Synopsis Guide to the Study of Ancient Magic by : David Frankfurter
Download or read book Guide to the Study of Ancient Magic written by David Frankfurter and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume seeks to advance the study of ancient magic through separate discussions of ancient terms for ambiguous or illicit ritual, the ancient texts commonly designated magical, and contexts in which the term magic may be used descriptively.
Book Synopsis Evil Speech Stand Aside by : Vanessa Kindell
Download or read book Evil Speech Stand Aside written by Vanessa Kindell and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-08 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In modern Sumerian Reconstructionism, an Ishib is one who has decided to take their practice to a more engaged level. This book is an attempt at reconstructing the practices of the ancient Ishib while making room for practices and structure adapted to the modern world. By working through this course, you will learn the art of ritual purification, exorcism, traditional methods of healing, ancestor communication and worship, incantations, perpetration and care of an altar to the gods, as well as rituals and practices you can use to further your connection with the gods, the spirits and take on the role of a spiritual leader for your community.
Book Synopsis The Magical Ceremony Maqlû by : Tzvi Abusch
Download or read book The Magical Ceremony Maqlû written by Tzvi Abusch and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Akkadian series Maqlû is the most important magical text against witchcraft from Mesopotamia. This new edition of the standard text contains a synoptic edition of all manuscripts, a composite text in transliteration, an annotated transcription and translation.
