Legitimising Magic: Strategies and Practices in Ancient Mesopotamia - Couverture rigide

 
9789004687400: Legitimising Magic: Strategies and Practices in Ancient Mesopotamia
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 9004687408 ISBN 13 : 9789004687400
Editeur : Brill, 2023

Synopsis

As magic is a powerful means to influence the natural world and human beings, and is deeply connected to the divine sphere, persons using it are in constant need to justify its use. The ambivalence of magic to serve both well-wishing and ill-wishing aims puts the practitioners ever at risk. This volume illuminates the strategies adopted to legitimise the practice of magic and analyses how these justifications are phrased and formulated in cuneiform texts, thereby revealing the underlying principles and unexplained axioms of using magic in the Ancient Near East.

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À propos de l?auteur

Nils. P. Heeßel, Ph.D. (1999), is Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the Philipps-Universität Marburg. He has published numerous monographs and articles on Mesopotamian Divination, Magic, and Medicine. His latest book is Divinatorische Texte III: Astrologische Omina (Harrassowitz, 2021).

Elyze Zomer, Ph.D. (2017), is a faculty member at the department of Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. Her latest book authored jointly with Nathan Wasserman, is Akkadian Magic Literature: Old Babylonian and Old Assyrian Incantations (Harrassowitz, 2022).

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Éditeur
Brill
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9004687408
ISBN 13 
9789004687400
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
221
Éditeur
Zomer Elyze, Heeßel Nils
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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