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Among the most important sources for understanding the cultures and systems of thought of ancient Mesopotamia is a large body of magical and medical texts written in the Sumerian and Akkadian languages. An especially significant branch of this literature centres upon witchcraft. Mesopotamian anti-witchcraft rituals and incantations attribute ill-health and misfortune to the magic machinations of witches and prescribe ceremonies, devices, and treatments for dispelling witchcraft, destroying the witch, and protecting and curing the patient. The Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-witchcraft Rituals aims to present a reconstruction of this body of texts; it provides critical editions of the relevant rituals and prescriptions based on the study of the cuneiform tablets and fragments recovered from the libraries of ancient Mesopotamia.This is the first volume in the three-part Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-witchcraft Rituals series. Volumes two and three are expected in 2015 and 2018 respectively. "Even in its incomplete form, Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals is a major contribution to the study of witchcraft, supernatural belief, folk medicine (both supernatural and non-supernatural), theories of magic, incantations, and ritual. This edition is required reading for any scholar with an interest in these topics."David Elton Gay, Indiana University
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9789004318540 | Brill Academic Pub, May 19, 2016, cover price $263.00
9789004189133 | Brill Academic Pub, November 1, 2010, cover price $254.00 | About this edition: Among the most important sources for understanding the cultures and systems of thought of ancient Mesopotamia is a large body of magical and medical texts written in the Sumerian and Akkadian languages.
Product Description: The Akkadian series Maqlu, 'Burning', remains the most important magical text against witchcraft from Mesopotamia and perhaps from the entire ancient Near East. Maqlu is a nine-tablet work consisting of the text of almost 100 incantations and accompanying rituals directed against witches and witchcraft...read more
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9789004285149 | Critical edition (Brill Academic Pub, November 18, 2015), cover price $234.00 | About this edition: The Akkadian series Maqlu, 'Burning', remains the most important magical text against witchcraft from Mesopotamia and perhaps from the entire ancient Near East.
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9781614515326 | Walter De Gruyter Inc, January 1, 2016, cover price $238.00
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9780443027512, titled "Teaching for Health: The Nurse As Health Educator" | Churchill Livingstone, April 1, 1985, cover price $30.00 | also contains Teaching for Health: The Nurse As Health Educator
Product Description: First published in 1896, King presents the cuneiform text of a group of 60 clay tablets inscribed with prayers and religious compositions of a devotional and magical character. These tablets were created by the scribes of Ashurbanipal, King of Assyria, between 669-625 b...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780877289340 | Red Wheel/Weiser, December 1, 2000, cover price $52.00 | About this edition: First published in 1896, King presents the cuneiform text of a group of 60 clay tablets inscribed with prayers and religious compositions of a devotional and magical character.
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9781555401917 | Scholars Pr, December 1, 1987, cover price $34.95
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9781930675407 | Bilingual edition (Brown Judaic Studies, January 30, 1987), cover price $17.95
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9780443027512 | Churchill Livingstone, April 1, 1985, cover price $30.00 | also contains The Magical Ceremony Maqlû
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