TY - BOOK AU - Levene,Dan TI - Jewish Aramaic curse texts from late-antique Mesopotamia: "may these curses go out and flee" T2 - Magical and religious literature of late antiquity SN - 9789004257269 AV - PJ5208 .A2 2014 U1 - 133.4/4089924035 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Leiden PB - Brill KW - Pergamonmuseum (Berlin, Germany) KW - Archaeological collections KW - British Museum KW - Incantations, Aramaic KW - Incantation bowls KW - Jewish magic KW - History N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Front Matter -- Introduction -- Bowls Newly Edited -- Bowls that Have Already been Published -- Synopses -- Glossaries -- Bibliography -- Index; Available to subscribing member institutions only N2 - The corpus of Aramaic incantation bowls from Sasanian Mesopotamia is perhaps the most important source we have for studying the everyday beliefs and practices of the Jewish, Christian, Mandaean, Manichaean, Zoroastrian and Pagan communities on the eve of the Islamic conquests. In Jewish Aramaic Curse Texts from Late-Antique Mesopotamia , Dan Levene collects and analyses a selection of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic incantation bowls. While such texts are usually apotropaic or healing in purpose, those collected here are distinctive in that their purpose was to curse or return curses against human adversaries. This book presents new editions of thirty texts, of which fourteen are edited here for the first time, with an introduction, commentary, analysis and glossaries, as well as photographs. “In this valuable addition to the literature on the role of bowls with aggressive texts in magic practices in this period, Levene (Jewish history and culture, U. of Southampton, UK) presents a summary of newly edited and already published bowls with Aramaic transcription; English translation; its type (e.g., invocation of demons to attack a named person, counter-charm); publication source; formulaic parallels in other texts; and notes.\' Reference andamp; Research Book News, 2013 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004257269 ER -