Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals Glossaries and Indices, Greta Van Buylaere, Mikko Luukko
Автор: Tzvi Abusch, Daniel Schwemer, Mikko Luukko, Greta Van Buylaere Название: Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals: Volume Three ISBN: 9004416269 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004416260 Издательство: Brill Цена: 49212.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: 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 centers 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.
Описание: Among the most important sources for understanding the cultures, religions, and systems of thought of ancient Mesopotamia is the large corpus of magical and medical texts directed against witchcraft. The most important of these texts is the Akkadian series Maqlu (“Burning”).
This volume offers a collection of studies on Mesopotamian witchcraft and Maqlu written subsequent to the appearance of the author’s 2002 collection of studies on witchcraft (Brill, 2002). Many of the studies reprinted here take a diachronic approach to individual incantations and rituals and attempt to solve textual difficulties using literary-critical and/or text-critical approaches.
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Описание: This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
The Beginning Dakota/Tokaheya Dakota Iapi Kin workbook provides exercises for building vocabulary, practicing conversation, and reading and writing about Dakota history. Now a brand-new teacher's edition offers further support through a full answer key, classroom activities, quizzes, and worksheets that will equip teachers with tested strategies to engage and educate students of the Dakota language.
Nicolette Knudson and Jody Snow along with revered elder Clifford Canku share their expertise through activities that organize the language at its most basic level. Twenty-four lesson plans build on each other and use cultural and historical information to increase understanding of the Dakota language and world view. Exercises, including additional worksheets and suggested activities, offer opportunities to practice the language and enhance comprehension. With these features and more, this teacher's edition is an invaluable tool for instructors at all levels.
Clifford Canku, an elder of the Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota Oyate and assistant professor of practice for Dakota Studies at North Dakota State University, assisted Dakota language students Nicolette Knudson, also a member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate, and Jody Snow, a language instructor, in creating this helpful resource.
Автор: Brenner Mike Название: The Mesopotamian Tale: An Origin Story ISBN: 057863077X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780578630779 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 1241.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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THE MESOPOTAMIAN TALE, compact companion to EVOLUTION DIVERTED, contains the story at the heart of that book. The story, woven from texts and images unearthed from the ruins of ancient Mesopotamian cities (in present day Iraq), covers the age that began with events leading to the extraordinary birth of our kind...the age that ended as the religion of the olden gods began to fade away.
THE MESOPOTAMIAN TALE disputes the conventional view that the Mesopotamian literature is all myth. It takes the stories of the gods at face value...accepting that the rulers of the region were powerful flesh and blood humanoids who'd come to Earth, not deities existing solely in human imagination. That, of course, was the nature of the mythical Greek and Roman gods, many of whom were modeled on the living gods of Mesopotamia, after they had left Earth.
The accounts assembled in this work were found in fragmentary form in tens of thousands of artifacts. Piecing together texts separated from each other by time, distance, and language, and translated by numerous scholars, was a process based in an intuitive feel for a vital narrative running, like a red thread, through them all. Admittedly, the process involved as much art as science. This author hopes that in time scholars and scientists will confirm that THE MESOPOTAMIAN TALE has been accurately and truthfully abstracted from the vast archaeological findings.
In EVOLUTION DIVERTED, the saga of the Mesopotamian deities is explored at length, citing source material and relevant science. In contrast, this book's commentary is brief, aiming primarily to show how the story has the potential to lay bare the roots of humanity's suffering, for in the long rule of the olden gods we can discern the origins of the deeply troubled state of civilization.
A principle shared by wisdom traditions, philosophers, and clinicians holds that you cannot solve your problems if you don't know who you are...and that you can't know who you are if you don't know your origins. As it is for one person, so it is for our kinds. If memory for our extraordinary beginnings is restored, revelations about our selves will lead us in new directions. EVOLUTION DIVERTED envisions a way out of civilized humanity's trap.
Yet this book doesn't try to bolster the credibility of the narrative it presents. It doesn't try to elaborate how our troubled state would be relieved if we were to emerge from mass amnesia. Those tasks are taken up in EVOLUTION DIVERTED. This book's intention is less ambitious. Its commentaries are directed at two critical points in time: when monotheism began to rise; and the present, when we are making choices that will determine the fate of our species and our world.
Описание: This volume presents an analysis of 1000 cylinder seals (including 70 that are not yet published) from the Old Babylonian period, including the Isin and Larsa dynasties, and uses this analysis as well as data from written texts of the period to answer questions relating to the seal cutters and the production of the seals.
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