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Author Levene, Dan, author.

Title Jewish Aramaic curse texts from late-antique Mesopotamia : "may these curses go out and flee" / by Dan Levene
Published Leiden : Brill, 2013
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 164 pages) : illustrations
Series Magical and religious literature of late antiquity ; volume 2
Magical and religious literature of late antiquity ; 2.
Contents Introduction -- Bowls newly edited -- Bowls that have already been published -- Synopses -- Glossaries
Summary In this book, Dan Levene analyses a corpus of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic incantation bowls from Mesopotamia, whose purpose was to curse or return curses against human adversaries. He presents new editions of thirty texts, with an introduction, commentary and glossaries
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Pergamonmuseum (Berlin, Germany) -- Archaeological collections
British Museum -- Archaeological collections
SUBJECT British Museum fast
Pergamonmuseum (Berlin, Germany) fast
Subject Incantations, Aramaic.
Incantation bowls.
Jewish magic -- History
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Parapsychology -- General.
Archaeology -- Private collections
Incantation bowls
Incantations, Aramaic
Jewish magic
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781299829954
1299829953
9789004257269
9004257268