The Magical Ceremony Maqlû: A Critical Edition

Critical
ISBN: 978-90-04-28514-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 402 Seiten, Format (B × H): 223 mm x 297 mm, Gewicht: 1830 g

Reihe: Ancient Magic and Divination

The Akkadian series Maqlû, 'Burning', remains the most important magical text against witchcraft from Mesopotamia and perhaps from the entire ancient Near East. Maqlû is a nine-tablet work consisting of the text of almost 100 incantations and accompanying rituals directed against witches and witchcraft. The work prescribes a single complex ceremony and stands at the end of a complex literary and ceremonial development. Thus, Maqlû provides important information not only about the literary forms and cultural ideas of individual incantations, but also about larger ritual structures and thematic relations of complex ceremonies. This new edition of the standard text contains a synoptic edition of all manuscripts, a composite text in transliteration, an annotated transcription and translation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Abusch, Tzvi

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Alternative Glaubensformen Magie, Alchemie und Hermetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte Religionen des Alten Orients
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Sonstige Religionen: Kult, Riten, Feiertage, Zeremonien, Gebete

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
General Introduction
Abbreviations and Symbols
Chapter 1: Synoptic Edition of Maqlû
Chapter 2: Composite Transliteration of Maqlû
Chapter 3: Transcription and Translation of Maqlû
Appendix A: Maqlû Colophons
Appendix B: Maqlû Commentaries
Bibliography - Maqlû and Related
Bibliography - Other Cited

Über Autor(innen)

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 early studies on Babylonian witchcraft are found in Mesopotamian Witchcraft (Brill, 2002). He is co-author along with Daniel Schwemer of Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-witchcraft Rituals (Brill, 2011-).