Essays on Babylonian and Biblical Literature and Religion

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-43517-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 65, 380 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 703 g

Reihe: Harvard Semitic Studies

In this volume, I. Tzvi Abusch presents studies written over a span of forty years prior to his retirement from Brandeis University in 2019. They reflect several themes that he has pursued in addition to his work on witchcraft literature and the Epic of Gilgamesh. Part 1 includes general articles on Mesopotamian magic, religion, and mythology, followed by a set of articles on Akkadian prayers, especially šuillas, focusing on exegetical and linguistic (synchronic) studies and on diachronic analyses. Part 2 contains a series of literary studies of Mesopotamian and biblical classics. Part 3 is devoted to comparative studies of terms and phenomena. Part 4 examines legal texts.


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Autoren/Hrsg.

Abusch, I Tzvi

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte Religionen der Antike

Über Autor(innen)

I. Tzvi Abusch, Ph.D. (1972), Harvard University, is Cohen Professor Emeritus of Assyriology and Ancient Near Eastern Religion at Brandeis University. His primary fields of publication are Mesopotamian religion and literature. A number of his studies on Babylonian witchcraft are collected in Mesopotamian Witchcraft (Brill, 2002) and Further Studies on Mesopotamian Witchcraft Beliefs (Brill, 2020). He is author of The Magical Ceremony Maqlû: A Critical Edition (Brill, 2016) and co-author of Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-witchcraft Rituals (Brill, 2011–2020).