The magical ceremony Maqlû: a critical edition

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 a...

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Main Author: Abusch, Tzvi 1940- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Leiden Boston Brill [2016]
In: Ancient magic and divination (volume 10)
Year: 2016
Series/Journal:Ancient magic and divination volume 10
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Mesopotamia / Belief in witches
Further subjects:B Spring
B Incantations, Assyro-Babylonian
B Magic, Assyro-Babylonian
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Summary: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
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-402) and index. An addendum is mentioned in the table of contents but is not in the book
ISBN:9004285148