Title Biblical and pagan societies / Fredrick H. Cryer, Marie-Louise Thomsen

Published London : Athlone Press, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (189 pages) : illustrations Series The Athlone history of witchcraft and magic in Europe ; volume 1 Athlone history of witchcraft and magic in Europe ; v. 1. Contents Cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- General Introduction -- PART 1: WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC IN ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA -- Introduction -- Mesopotamia: The Land, its People and History -- Earliest History and First Settlements -- The Sumerian City-States -- The Akkadians: Babylonians and Assyrians -- The First Millennium: The Neo-Assyrian Empire -- Mesopotamia under Foreign Rulers: Persians and Greeks -- Religion -- The Sumero-Babylonian Pantheon -- Ethics -- Purification -- Magic -- The Literary Tradition -- Sumerian Literature -- Akkadian Literature CanonizationBabylonian Tradition in Assyria -- First Millennium -- The Magical Texts -- Mesopotamian Magic, State of Research -- Witchcraft -- A Literary Example of Witchcraft -- Laws against Witchcraft -- The Witch -- How Witchcraft Manifests Itself -- Diagnosis -- Characteristic Symptoms -- Methods -- Contagious Magic -- Magic Knots -- Evil Magic with Images -- Messages of Witchcraft: zikurudÃ" -- The Evil Eye -- Anti-Witchcraft Rituals -- Medical Treatment of Witchcraft -- The Exorcist's Rituals against Witchcraft -- MaqlÃ" -- ZikurudÃ" MagicLuck and Misfortune -- The Power of Precious Stones -- Amulets -- Amulets for the Protection of Babies -- Love Charms -- Potency Incantations -- Therapy -- Diseases and Demons -- Expelling Demons by Offering a Substitute -- The Ritual for the Substitute King -- Ghosts -- Evil Portents and Apotropaic Rituals -- Divination -- Necromancy -- Astrology -- Mesopotamian Magic after the Fall of Babylon -- Abbreviations for Publications of Cuneiform Texts -- PART 2: MAGIC IN ANCIENT SYRIA-PALESTINE -- AND IN THE OLD TESTAMENT The Social-Historical ProblemConstructing Syrian-Palestinian History -- Material History -- Settlement Pattern and Social Structure -- The Patronage Principle -- The Common Proprium of Magic and Religion -- The Problem of Definition -- The Production of New Magic -- The Role of Stories -- Magic and Empiricism -- The Biblical Understandings of Magic -- The Evolutionary Picture -- Pseudo-evolution: The Tradition of 'Priestly' Divination -- Other Forms of Divination than Prophecy -- The Role of Women in Israelite and Judaean Magic -- Active Magic Witchcraft, Sorcery and CursingThe Evil Eye -- Witchcraft and Gender -- Self-cursing: The Oath -- Another Self-curse: The Ordeal -- The Status of Magic in Ancient Syriaâ€?Palestine -- The Practitioners -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-164) and index Notes Print version record Subject Witchcraft -- Iraq Magic -- Iraq Magic -- Syria Witchcraft -- Syria Magic -- Palestine Witchcraft -- Palestine BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Parapsychology -- General. Magic Witchcraft Iraq Middle East -- Palestine Syria Form Electronic book Author Thomsen, Marie-Louise, author ISBN 9780567323378 0567323374 9780567151025 0567151026

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