ISBN:
9789004257269
,
9789004250925
,
9004250921
,
9004257268
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource ( 164 S. )
,
ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Year of publication:
2014
Series Statement:
Magical and religious literature of late antiquity Volume 2
Series Statement:
Brill online books and journals: E-books
Series Statement:
Magical and religious literature of Late Antiquity
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Jewish Aramaic Curse Texts from Late-Antique Mesopotamia: “May These Curses Go Out and Flee”
Keywords:
Pergamonmuseum (Berlin, Germany) Archaeological collections
;
British Museum Archaeological collections
;
Pergamonmuseum (Berlin, Germany) Archaeological collections
;
British Museum Archaeological collections
;
Jewish magic History
;
Incantations, Aramaic
;
Incantation bowls
;
Jewish magic History
;
Mesopotamien
;
Aramäisch
;
Beschwörung
;
Magie
;
Schüssel
Abstract:
The corpus of Aramaic incantation bowls from Sasanian Mesopotamia is perhaps the most important source we have for studying the everyday beliefs and practices of the Jewish, Christian, Mandaean, Manichaean, Zoroastrian and Pagan communities on the eve of the Islamic conquests. In this book, Dan Levene collects and analyses a selection of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic incantation bowls. While such texts are usually apotropaic or healing in purpose, those collected here are distinctive in that their purpose was to curse or return curses against human adversaries. This book presents new editions of thirty texts, of which fourteen are edited here for the first time, with an introduction, commentary, analysis and glossaries, as well as photographs
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
DOI:
10.1163/9789004257269
