Reginald Campbell Thompson (1876-1941), grandson of the mathematician Augustus De Morgan, studied oriental languages at Cambridge, and in 1899 began his career in the British Museum's department of Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities. He participated in excavations at Nineveh and Carchemish with colleagues including Leonard William King and David George Hogarth (whose works are also reissued in this series). Thompson's later publications included a verse translation of The Epic of Gilgamish, and studies of ancient science. Published in 1903-4, this two-volume work made a substantial contribution to modern knowledge of ancient Babylonian demonology and magical practices. Volume 2 focuses on purification rituals, protection against disease, and descriptions of supernatural beings, but also contains additional protective charms against evil spirits. The work includes transliterations and explanatory notes, and was designed to accompany earlier British Museum publications of cuneiform texts from the seventh-century BCE Library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1908 Edition.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1900 Edition.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1908 Edition.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1906 Edition.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1903 Edition.

1900. Volume II on the Omen astrology of the Babylonians.

1903. Volumes 1 and 2 of the original books. This work is a translation from the original Cuneiform text, with transliterations, vocabulary and notes. It discusses devils and evil spirits in Babylonia, being Babylonian and Assyrian incantations against the demons, ghouls, vampires, hobgoblins, ghosts and kindred evil spirits which attack mankind. Illustrated.

1906. Transliterations and translations of a series of letters written in Babylonian Cuneiform, chiefly during the reigns of Nabonidus, Cyrus, Cambyses, and Darius.

THIS 40 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Semitic Magic: Its Origins and Development, by R. Campbell Thompson. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766145700.

1908. This is the third volume of Luzac's Oriental Religions Series. The theories discussed in this book are based on a study of that intricate demonology which has gradually developed throughout the lands of Western Asia. The study of tabu from the Assyrian side had been comparatively neglected and the evidence gleaned from the cuneiform writings shows that it existed in practically the same form in Mesopotamia as in other countries. The material the author could gather was imperfect and the relative scientific value of what was actually known on the subject is proportionate to the amount of evidence which may be afforded at some later date by documents in the British Museum that were not released for this book.

1903. Volumes 1 and 2 of the original books. This work is a translation from the original Cuneiform text, with transliterations, vocabulary and notes. It discusses devils and evil spirits in Babylonia, being Babylonian and Assyrian incantations against the demons, ghouls, vampires, hobgoblins, ghosts and kindred evil spirits which attack mankind. Illustrated.

THIS 40 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Semitic Magic: Its Origins and Development, by R. Campbell Thompson. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766145700.

1900. Volume II on the Omen astrology of the Babylonians.

THIS 40 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Semitic Magic: Its Origins and Development, by R. Campbell Thompson. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766145700.