The Chicago Maqlû Fragment (A 7876)

AbstractThe fragment A 7876 (Oriental Institute, Chicago) occupies a special position among the cuneiform sources of the ritualMaqlû. The six-column tablet, inscribed in the Neo-Assyrian script of the 8th and 7th centuries BC, originally contained the complete text of the series with its nine canonical tablets. Taking into account the relevant duplicate manuscripts the article offers an annotated edition of this fragment and compares its style and format to other “large tablets” (dubgallu) of Babylonian literary texts.</jats:p

Maqlû III 1-30: Internal analysis and manuscript evidence for the revision of an incantation

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Babylonian Witchcraft Literature: Case Studies

The studies in this volume focus on individual Babylonian magical texts while developing an overall understanding of these texts as a whole. Part One follows a diachronic approach, Part Two a synchronic one. In this sense, the studies are to be viewed broadly: while unravelling knots in individual texts, they highlight certain issues and exemplify some solutions for common problems in traditional Mesopotamian therapeutic literature

Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-witchcraft Rituals, Volume One

Among the most important sources for understanding the cultures and systems of thought of ancient Mesopotamia is a large body of magical and medical texts written in the Sumerian and Akkadian languages. An especially significant branch of this literature centres upon witchcraft. Mesopotamian anti-witchcraft rituals and incantations attribute ill-health and misfortune to the magic machinations of witches and prescribe ceremonies, devices, and treatments for dispelling witchcraft, destroying the witch, and protecting and curing the patient. The Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-witchcraft Rituals aims to present a reconstruction of this body of texts; it provides critical editions of the relevant rituals and prescriptions based on the study of the cuneiform tablets and fragments recovered from the libraries of ancient Mesopotamia

Reading akkadian prayers and hymns : an introduction

Existen pocos materiales didácticos para los estudiantes de la Biblia que deseen trabajar con fuentes textuales en sus lenguas originarias, pero que solo tienen un nivel intermedio de aptitud lingüística. El campo necesita algo que ofrezca glosas con vocabulario, notas gramaticales, comentarios literarios básicos y sugerencias comparativas acerca de cómo se conecta el texto con el material bíblico. Este libro provee de tal herramienta para un corpus material del que se han ocupado por mucho tiempo los estudiosos bíblicos inclinados a las comparaciones. La introducción da una visión general de las plegarias e himnos en acadio, su trasfondo cultural y literario, y la historia del uso de estos textos por parte de los investigadores modernos para comprender la Biblia Hebrea; el volumen ofrece, línea por línea, extensos comentarios lingüísticos, literarios y culturales para los himnos y las plegarias.There are few resources for students of the Bible who wish to work with ancient Near Eastern textual materials in the original languages but have only an intermediate level of linguistic aptitude. The field needs something that offers glosses on vocabulary, grammatical notes, basic literary commentary, and comparative suggestions about how the text connects to biblical material. This book provides such a tool for a body of material that has long occupied comparatively inclined biblical scholars. The introduction gives a panoramic overview of Akkadian prayers and hymns, their cultural and literary background, and the history of modern scholarship’s use of these texts for understanding the Hebrew Bible, and the volume offers extensive linguistic, literary, and cultural commentary for the hymns and prayers in a line-by-line manner