Among the most important sources for understanding the cultures, religions, and systems of thought of ancient Mesopotamia is the large corpus of magical and medical texts directed against witchcraft. The most important of these texts is the Akkadian series Maqlu ("Burning").
This volume offers a collection of studies on Mesopotamian witchcraft and Maqlu written subsequent to the appearance of the author's 2002 collection of studies on witchcraft (Brill, 2002). Many of the studies reprinted here take a diachronic approach to individual incantations and rituals and attempt to solve textual difficulties using literary-critical and/or text-critical approaches.
- ISBN10 9004421912
- ISBN13 9789004421912
- Publish Date 10 February 2020
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint Brill
- Format eBook
- Pages 256
- Language English