Essays on Babylonian and Biblical Literature and Religion

These studies take up several themes that the author has pursued in addition to his work on witchcraft literature and Gilgamesh. The volume contains general articles on Mesopotamian magic, religion, and mythology; studies, synchronic and diachronic, on Akkadian prayers; treatments of literary classics; comparative studies of terms and phenomena; and examinations of legal texts.

About the author

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).

Product details

• Authors: I Tzvi Abusch, I. Tzvi Abusch
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.09.2020
• EAN: 9789004435179
• ISBN: 978-90-04-43517-9
• No. of pages: 404
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 236 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 703 g
• Series: Harvard Semitic Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Miscellaneous