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Sources of Evil - Studies in Mesopotamian Exorcistic Lore (Hardcover)
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Sources of Evil - Studies in Mesopotamian Exorcistic Lore (Hardcover)
Series: Ancient Magic and Divination, 15
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Sources of Evil: Studies in Mesopotamian Exorcistic Lore is a
collection of thirteen essays on the body of knowledge employed by
ancient Near Eastern healing experts, most prominently the
'exorcist' and the 'physician', to help patients who were suffering
from misfortunes caused by divine anger, transgressions of taboos,
demons, witches, or other sources of evil. The volume provides new
insights into the two most important catalogues of Mesopotamian
therapeutic lore, the Exorcist's Manual and the Assur Medical
Catalogue, and contains discussions of agents of evil and causes of
illness, ways of repelling evil and treating patients, the
interpretation of natural phenomena in the context of exorcistic
lore, and a description of the symbolic cosmos with its divine and
demonic inhabitants. "This volume in the series on Ancient
Divination and Magic published by Brill is a welcome addition to
the growing literature on ancient magic ..." -Ann Jeffers, Journal
for the Study of the Old Testament 43.5 (2019) "Since the focus of
the conference from which the essays derive was narrow, most of the
essays hang together well and even complement each other. Several
offer state-of-the-art treatments of topics and texts that make the
volume especially useful. Readers will find much in this volume
that contributes to our understanding of Mesopotamian exorcists,
magic, medicine, and conceptions of evil." -Scott Noegel,
University of Washington, Journal of the American Oriental Society
140.1 (2020)
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