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Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: Biblical and Pagan Societies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 168

Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: Biblical and Pagan Societies

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2001
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Sumerian Language
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 384

The Sumerian Language

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1984
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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East and West
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 194

East and West

This volume contains fifteen articles dealing with the reciprocity of contacts and influences between East and West in the Ancient world. This volume is the publication of an interdisciplinary seminar held at the University of Copenhagen in 1987 with the participation of archaeologists, philologists and historians.

Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 1
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 189

Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 1

The oldest roots of the European concepts of witchcraft and magic lie in the Hebrew and other cultures of the ancient Near East and in the Celtic, Nordic and Germanic Societies of the North and West. The authors of this volume survey three crucial aspects of this earliest phase of development. These are the role of magical incantations and rituals against witchcraft in Mesopotamia in the last three millennia BC, the attitudes to witchcraft and magic in the Old Testament and in later Jewish tradition, and the beliefs and legends associated with trolldomor (witchcraft) in pre-Christian Scandanavia.

The Witch
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 385

The Witch

This book sets the notorious European witch trials in the widest and deepest possible perspective and traces the major historiographical developments of witchcraft

Harlot or Holy Woman?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 315

Harlot or Holy Woman?

Harlot or Holy Woman? presents an exhaustive study of qedešah, a Hebrew word meaning “consecrated woman” but rendered “prostitute” or “sacred prostitute” in Bible translations. Reexamining biblical and extrabiblical texts, Phyllis A. Bird questions how qedešah came to be associated with prostitution and offers an alternative explanation of the term, one that suggests a wider participation for women as religious specialists in Israel’s early cultic practice. Bird’s study reviews all the texts from classical antiquity cited as sources for an institution of “sacred prostitution,” alongside a comprehensive analysis of the cuneiform texts from Mesopotamia containing the cogn...

Akkadian-English Dictionary. Volume III (R-Z)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 184

Akkadian-English Dictionary. Volume III (R-Z)

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-02-06
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  • Publisher: Lulu.com

Akkadian-English Dictionary. Volume III (R-Z) Published by Times Square Press, New York and Berlin. Akkadian-English Dictionary. Epistemology. Etymology. Terminology. History. Texts translation. Linguistic cross-references. Comparative Lexicon/Thesaurus of Akkadian, Sumerian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Chaldean, Phoenician, Ugaritic, Aramaic, Syriac, Hebrew, Arabic. With additional linguistic cross-references: Turkish, Urdu and Persian (Farsi). Volume 3 from a set of 3 volumes. A most unique dictionary of the Akkadian language on many levels; mainly because of its comparison and analogy between Akkadian and 14 languages of the ancient world. Thousands of entries, definitions and epistemological explanation of the origin of the word, its derivation and variants in other languages. Abundance of photos, maps, illustrations and sketches.

Drawing Spirit
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 387

Drawing Spirit

A pioneering interdisciplinary study of the art, production and social functions of Late Antique ritual artefacts. Utilising case studies from the Graeco-Egyptian magical papyri and the Heidelberg archive it establishes new approaches, provides a holistic understanding of the multi-sensory aspects of ritual practice, and explores the transmission of knowledge traditions across faiths.

Natufian Chipped Lithic Assemblage
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 104

Natufian Chipped Lithic Assemblage

As part of the TAVO-project in the Petra area conducted by H.G. Gebel in 1984, the Natufian site of Sunakh is here presented with a technological analysis of a number of attributes on the debitage including the core reduction technique, as well as a typological analysis of the tool types.

Acts of the Seventh International Conference of Demotic Studies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 558

Acts of the Seventh International Conference of Demotic Studies

This book contains contributions from K.T. Zauzich, H.S. Smith, B. Porten, U. Kaplony-Heckel, R.K. Ritner, S. Allam, M. Chauveau, and D. Devauchelle.