Mesopotamian Magic: Textual, Historical and Interpretative Perspectives

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Mesopotamian Magic: Textual, Historical and Interpretative Perspectives is written by Tzvi Abusch and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004496297 (ISBN 10) and 9789004496293 (ISBN 13).

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.