Author
Abusch; I. Tzvi
Year
2020
Publisher
Brown Judaic Studies
Language
English
Pages
7
ISBN
978-1-94652-715-8
Last Update
04-Sep-2024
Keywords
Religion ; Jewish Studies
A study of all published and many unpublished Akkadian prayers and incantations containing witchcraft-related terminology reveals that most of the texts deal primarily with witchcraft and can be typed and assigned to distinct categories on structural and thematic grounds. In a number of texts, however, these terms occur as members of a much larger group of evils and stand in no causal relationship to the non-witchcraft terms. While this creates no essential difficulty for the interpreter in those instances where the text has as its object the combatting of evils of all types (as, for example, in the General Namburbi...
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