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.
- ISBN10 9056930338
- ISBN13 9789056930332
- Publish Date 1 January 2000
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country NL
- Publisher Brill
- Imprint Styx Publications
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 302
- Language English
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