Biblical and pagan societies. (2001)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Fredrick H. Cryer, Marie-Louise Thomsen.
• Authors: Cryer, Frederick H; Thomsen, Marie-Louise
• 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"" ""Canonization""""Babylonian 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""" ""Magic""""Luck 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 Problem""""Constructing 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 Cursing""""The 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""
• Publisher Details: London : Athlone Press
• Publication Date: 2001
• Extent: 1 online resource (189 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 133.4/3/09394; Witchcraft -- Iraq; Magic -- Iraq; Magic -- Syria; Witchcraft -- Syria; Magic -- Palestine; Witchcraft -- Palestine; BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Parapsychology -- General; Magic; Witchcraft; Iraq; Middle East -- Palestine; Syria; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780567323378; 0567323374; 9780567151025; 0567151026
• Related ISBNs: 0485890011; 0485891018; 9780485890013; 9780485891010
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-164) and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.