TY  - BOOK
AU  - Levene,Dan
TI  - Jewish Aramaic curse texts from late-antique Mesopotamia: "may these curses go out and flee" 
T2  - Magical and religious literature of late antiquity
SN  - 9004250921 (hardback : alk. paper)
AV  - PJ5208 .A2 2014
U1  - 133.4/4089924035 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Leiden
PB  - Brill
KW  - British Museum
KW  - Archaeological collections
KW  - Pergamonmuseum (Berlin, Germany)
KW  - Incantation bowls
KW  - Incantations, Aramaic
KW  - Jewish magic
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - The corpus of Aramaic incantation bowls from Sasanian Mesopotamia is perhaps the most important source we have for studying the everyday beliefs and practices of the Jewish, Christian, Mandaean, Manichaean, Zoroastrian and Pagan communities on the eve of the Islamic conquests. In this book, Dan Levene collects and analyses a selection of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic incantation bowls. While such texts are usually apotropaic or healing in purpose, those collected here are distinctive in that their purpose was to curse or return curses against human adversaries. This book presents new editions of thirty texts, of which fourteen are edited here for the first time, with an introduction, commentary, analysis and glossaries, as well as photographs
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004257269
ER  -