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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Die babylonisch-assyrische 'Beschworungskunst' oder 'Magie' kannte eine Vielfalt von Heilvorschriften und Zeremonien, darunter zahlreiche defensive Rituale zur Losung von Ubel und zur Reinigung des Patienten. Diese Abwehrrituale richteten sich etwa gegen Damonen, Gotterzorn, Behexung, Feinde, den Fluch als Folge eines Tabubruchs, Geister oder bose Vorzeichen. Auch das traditionsreiche und fur den Konig in besonders feierlicher Form durchgefuhrte Badehaus-Ritual hatte die Funktion, Ubel abzuwehren. Entgegen ublicher Annahme stellt es aber nicht einfach ein unspezifisches Reinigungsritual dar, das durchzufuhren war, wenn bose Vorzeichen eine Gefahrdung des Konigs anzeigten. Vielmehr besitzt das Badehaus-Ritual einen besonderen thematischen Fokus: den verhassten, verunglimpften, von Schadenzauber und Feinden bedrohten Konig, der selbst Schuld auf sich geladen hat. Das Ritual zeigt damit ein Bild des Herrschers, das dem von Monumentalarchitektur und Konigsinschriften gepragten Erwartungshorizont der mesopotamischen Konigsideologie nicht entsprach: den kontraintuitiven Konig. Im rituellen Kontext kann die Defizienz der koniglichen Person thematisiert und uberwunden werden. So dient das Badehaus-Ritual nicht zuletzt der Stabilisierung der koniglichen Herrschaft. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Hardback. Condition: New. Sources of Evil: Studies in Mesopotamian Exorcistic Lore is a collection of thirteen essays on the body of knowledge employed by ancient Near Eastern healing experts, most prominently the 'exorcist' and the 'physician', to help patients who were suffering from misfortunes caused by divine anger, transgressions of taboos, demons, witches, or other sources of evil. The volume provides new insights into the two most important catalogues of Mesopotamian therapeutic lore, the Exorcist's Manual and the Assur Medical Catalogue, and contains discussions of agents of evil and causes of illness, ways of repelling evil and treating patients, the interpretation of natural phenomena in the context of exorcistic lore, and a description of the symbolic cosmos with its divine and demonic inhabitants."This volume in the series on Ancient Divination and Magic published by Brill is a welcome addition to the growing literature on ancient magic ."-Ann Jeffers, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 43.5 (2019)"Since the focus of the conference from which the essays derive was narrow, most of the essays hang together well and even complement each other. Several offer state-of-the-art treatments of topics and texts that make the volume especially useful. Readers will find much in this volume that contributes to our understanding of Mesopotamian exorcists, magic, medicine, and conceptions of evil."-Scott Noegel, University of Washington, Journal of the American Oriental Society 140.1 (2020).…

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Hardback. Condition: New. Sources of Evil: Studies in Mesopotamian Exorcistic Lore is a collection of thirteen essays on the body of knowledge employed by ancient Near Eastern healing experts, most prominently the 'exorcist' and the 'physician', to help patients who were suffering from misfortunes caused by divine anger, transgressions of taboos, demons, witches, or other sources of evil. The volume provides new insights into the two most important catalogues of Mesopotamian therapeutic lore, the Exorcist's Manual and the Assur Medical Catalogue, and contains discussions of agents of evil and causes of illness, ways of repelling evil and treating patients, the interpretation of natural phenomena in the context of exorcistic lore, and a description of the symbolic cosmos with its divine and demonic inhabitants."This volume in the series on Ancient Divination and Magic published by Brill is a welcome addition to the growing literature on ancient magic ."-Ann Jeffers, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 43.5 (2019)"Since the focus of the conference from which the essays derive was narrow, most of the essays hang together well and even complement each other. Several offer state-of-the-art treatments of topics and texts that make the volume especially useful. Readers will find much in this volume that contributes to our understanding of Mesopotamian exorcists, magic, medicine, and conceptions of evil."-Scott Noegel, University of Washington, Journal of the American Oriental Society 140.1 (2020).…

Hardback. Condition: New. Sources of Evil: Studies in Mesopotamian Exorcistic Lore is a collection of thirteen essays on the body of knowledge employed by ancient Near Eastern healing experts, most prominently the 'exorcist' and the 'physician', to help patients who were suffering from misfortunes caused by divine anger, transgressions of taboos, demons, witches, or other sources of evil. The volume provides new insights into the two most important catalogues of Mesopotamian therapeutic lore, the Exorcist's Manual and the Assur Medical Catalogue, and contains discussions of agents of evil and causes of illness, ways of repelling evil and treating patients, the interpretation of natural phenomena in the context of exorcistic lore, and a description of the symbolic cosmos with its divine and demonic inhabitants."This volume in the series on Ancient Divination and Magic published by Brill is a welcome addition to the growing literature on ancient magic ."-Ann Jeffers, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 43.5 (2019)"Since the focus of the conference from which the essays derive was narrow, most of the essays hang together well and even complement each other. Several offer state-of-the-art treatments of topics and texts that make the volume especially useful. Readers will find much in this volume that contributes to our understanding of Mesopotamian exorcists, magic, medicine, and conceptions of evil."-Scott Noegel, University of Washington, Journal of the American Oriental Society 140.1 (2020).…

Hardcover. Condition: New. &Uumlber den AutorGreta Van Buylaere, Ph.D. (2009), University of Udine, is Research Associate on the Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-witchcraft Rituals -project at the University of Wuerzburg. Her research includes studies on witchc.

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Hardback. Condition: New. Sources of Evil: Studies in Mesopotamian Exorcistic Lore is a collection of thirteen essays on the body of knowledge employed by ancient Near Eastern healing experts, most prominently the 'exorcist' and the 'physician', to help patients who were suffering from misfortunes caused by divine anger, transgressions of taboos, demons, witches, or other sources of evil. The volume provides new insights into the two most important catalogues of Mesopotamian therapeutic lore, the Exorcist's Manual and the Assur Medical Catalogue, and contains discussions of agents of evil and causes of illness, ways of repelling evil and treating patients, the interpretation of natural phenomena in the context of exorcistic lore, and a description of the symbolic cosmos with its divine and demonic inhabitants."This volume in the series on Ancient Divination and Magic published by Brill is a welcome addition to the growing literature on ancient magic ."-Ann Jeffers, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 43.5 (2019)"Since the focus of the conference from which the essays derive was narrow, most of the essays hang together well and even complement each other. Several offer state-of-the-art treatments of topics and texts that make the volume especially useful. Readers will find much in this volume that contributes to our understanding of Mesopotamian exorcists, magic, medicine, and conceptions of evil."-Scott Noegel, University of Washington, Journal of the American Oriental Society 140.1 (2020).…

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. xx, 507 pages, 69 plates : illustrations : 30 cm. Summary: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. …

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