Mesopotamian Magic: Textual, Historical and Interpretative Perspectives (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789056930332)

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.

Author: Tzvi Abusch, Karel Van Der Toorn
ISBN-10: 9056930338
ISBN-13: 9789056930332
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2000
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.79lbs
Size: 9.70h x 7.10w x 0.90d