By Tzvi Abusch and Daniel Schwemer
One of the most crucial assets for realizing the cultures and platforms of considered old Mesopotamia is a huge physique of magical and scientific texts written within the Sumerian and Akkadian languages. a particularly major department of this literature centres upon witchcraft. Mesopotamian anti-witchcraft rituals and incantations characteristic ill-health and misfortune to the magic machinations of witches and prescribe ceremonies, units, and coverings for dispelling witchcraft, destroying the witch, and holding and curing the sufferer. The Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-witchcraft Rituals goals to give a reconstruction of this physique of texts; it offers severe versions of the proper rituals and prescriptions according to the research of the cuneiform drugs and fragments recovered from the libraries of historic Mesopotamia.
This is the 1st quantity within the three-part Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-witchcraft Rituals sequence. Volumes and 3 are anticipated in 2015 and 2018 respectively.
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