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Abusch, Tzvi

Mesopotamian Magic: Textual, Historical and Interpretative Perspectives / Tzvi Abusch, Karel van der Toorn. - 1 online resource. - Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495 Ancient Magic and Divination ; 1 . - Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495. Ancient Magic and Divination ; 1. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN: 9789004496293 9789056930332

Standard No.: 10.1163/9789004496293 DOI

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian.
Magic--history.
Magic, Assyro-Babylonian.

LC Class. No.: BF1591

Dewey Class. No.: 133.4