Sources of evil: studies in Mesopotamian exorcistic lore
Intro -- Sources of Evil: Studies in Mesopotamian Exorcistic Lore -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Organizing Magical and Medical Knowledge -- 1 The Exorcist's Manual: Structure, Language, Sitz im Leben -- 2 Catalogues, Texts, and Specialists: Som...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston
BRILL
2018
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Ancient magic and divination (15)
Year: 2018 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Sources of evil : studies in Mesopotamian exorcistic lore] (2020) (Geller, Mark J.)
[Rezension von: Sources of evil : studies in Mesopotamian exorcistic lore] (2020) (Noegel, Scott B., 1962 -) |
| Series/Journal: | Ancient magic and divination
15 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Mesopotamia
/ Healer
/ Exorcism
B Mesopotamia / Belief in spirits / Exorcism |
| Further subjects: | B
Exorcism-History
B Electronic books B Good and evil B Conference program 15.04.2015-17.04.2015 (Würzburg) |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | Intro -- Sources of Evil: Studies in Mesopotamian Exorcistic Lore -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Organizing Magical and Medical Knowledge -- 1 The Exorcist's Manual: Structure, Language, Sitz im Leben -- 2 Catalogues, Texts, and Specialists: Some Thoughts on the Aššur Medical Catalogue and Mesopotamian Healing Professions -- Agents of Evil and Causes of Illness -- 3 Identifying Divine Agency: The Hands of the Gods in Context -- 4 Kamadme, the Sumerian Counterpart of the Demon Lamaštu -- 5 The Lion, the Witch, and the Wolf: Aggressive Magic and Witchcraft in the Old Babylonian Period -- Repelling Evil with Rituals, Amulets, and Incantations -- 6 Evil Helpers: Instrumentalizing Agents of Evil in Anti-witchcraft Rituals -- 7 Magico-medical Plants and Incantations on Assyrian House Amulets -- 8 Alternative Models for the Development of Some Incantations -- Concepts and Therapies of Illness -- 9 Reusing Incantations and Making New from Old: On the Formation and Therapeutic Objective of the Muššuʾu ("Embrocation") Compendium -- 10 Tracing Mesopotamian Medical Knowledge: A Study of maškadu and Related Illnesses -- The Living and the Ordered World in Exorcistic Lore -- 11 Ina lumun attalî Sîn: On Evil and Lunar Eclipses -- 12 Highway to Hell: The Winds as Cosmic Conveyors in Mesopotamian Incantation Texts -- 13 The Göttertypentext as a Humanistic Mappa Mundi: An Essay -- Indices |
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| ISBN: | 9004373349 |