Name: Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-witchcraft Rituals: Volume One: 8
Author: Tzvi Abusch (Author), Daniel Schwemer (Author)
ISBN: 9789004189133

Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-witchcraft Rituals: Volume One: 8 book cover

Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-witchcraft Rituals: Volume One: 8

Author(s): Tzvi Abusch (Author), Daniel Schwemer (Author)

Publisher: BRILL
Publication Date: 17 Dec. 2010
Language: English
Print length: 636 pages
ISBN-10: 9004189130
ISBN-13: 9789004189133

Book Description

Mesopotamian anti-witchcraft rituals and prescriptions prescribe ceremonies and treatments for dispelling witchcraft, destroying the witch, and protecting and curing the patient. The Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-witchcraft Rituals aims to present a reconstruction and critical editions of this body of texts.

Editorial Reviews

Review

“This corpus CMAwR will be a great step forward in Assyriology.” – M. Stol, Leiden, in: BIBLIOTHECA ORIENTALIS, vol.70, no.1-2 (2013)

From the Back Cover

Among the most important sources for understanding the cultures and systems of thought of ancient Mesopotamia is a large body of magical and medical texts written in the Sumerian and Akkadian languages. An especially significant branch of this literature centres upon witchcraft. Mesopotamian anti-witchcraft rituals and incantations attribute ill-health and misfortune to the magic machinations of witches and prescribe ceremonies, devices, and treatments for dispelling witchcraft, destroying the witch, and protecting and curing the patient. “The Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-witchcraft Rituals” aims to present a reconstruction of this body of texts; it provides critical editions of the relevant rituals and prescriptions based on the study of the cuneiform tablets and fragments recovered from the libraries of ancient Mesopotamia.

About the Author

Tzvi Abusch, Ph.D. (1972), Harvard University, is Cohen Professor of Assyriology and Ancient Near Eastern Religion at Brandeis University. His primary fields of publication are Mesopotamian religion and literature. Some of his studies on Babylonian witchcraft are found in Mesopotamian Witchcraft (Brill, 2002). Daniel Schwemer, Ph.D. (2000), Habilitation (2005), Würzburg University, is Reader in Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. He has published extensively on ancient Near Eastern religion and magic including Abwehrzauber und Behexung (Harrassowitz, 2007).

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