Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Preface

Part I: Mesopotamian Witchcraft

The Demonic Image of the Witch in Standard Babylonian Literature: The Reworking of Popular Conceptions by Learned Exorcists

Witchcraft and the Anger of the Personal God

Considerations When Killing A Witch: Developments in Exorcistic Attitudes to Witchcraft

Witchcraft, Impotence, and Indigestion

The Internalization of Suffering and Illness in Mesopotamia: A Development in Mesopotamian Witchcraft Literature

Part II: The Nature and History of Maqlu

The Nature of Maqlu: Its Character, Divisions, and Calendrical Setting

An Early Form of the Witchcraft Ritual Maqlu and the Origin of a Babylonian Magical Ceremony

The Ritual Tablet and Rubrics of Maqlu: Toward the History of the Series

Ritual and Incantation: Interpretation and Textual History of Maqlu VIII 58-105 and IX 152-59

Water into Fire: The Formation of Some Witchcraft Incantations

Part III: Meaning: The Religious and Intellectual Setting of Maqlu

The Socio-Religious Framework of the Babylonian Witchcraft Ceremony Maqlu: Some Observations on the Introductory Section of the Text, Part I

The Socio-Religious Framework of the Babylonian Witchcraft Ceremony Maqlu: Some Observations on the Introductory Section of the Text, Part II

Ascent to the Stars in Mesopotamian Ritual: Social Metaphor and Religious Experience

Maqlu: A Schematic Summary

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Indices