Syriac Love Charms. Part I. The Recipe-Type
In this paper we consider 6 Syriac love charms and edit their original text and translation. All but two texts are published here for the first time. This is the first part of our inquiry, in which we consider one of the two types of Syriac love charms, the recipe-type. Among its primary characteris...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2021
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Scrinium
Year: 2021, Volume: 17, Issue: 1, Pages: 68-91 |
| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion AZ New religious movements CB Christian life; spirituality KBL Near East and North Africa NCB Personal ethics |
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Ancient Near East
B magic books B Magic B Syriac charms B Aramaic B erotic magic B Eastern Christianity |
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| Summary: | In this paper we consider 6 Syriac love charms and edit their original text and translation. All but two texts are published here for the first time. This is the first part of our inquiry, in which we consider one of the two types of Syriac love charms, the recipe-type. Among its primary characteristics is its extreme rarity in Syriac magic codices. Another prominent trait of this type, which makes these texts especially valuable, is that some of them contain ritual instructions which are exceedingly rare for Syriac charms as a whole, while others may contain what we call an allusion to it. Our assumption is that texts of this type reflect ancient magic practices originating in pre-Christian time, which are credibly attested in the texts belonging to other magic traditions of the Near East and Egypt. |
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| ISSN: | 1817-7565 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Scrinium
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18177565-bja10043 |