Incantations and Anti-Witchcraft Texts from Ugarit by Gregorio Del Olmo Lete

Incantations and Anti-Witchcraft Texts from Ugarit by Gregorio Del Olmo Lete

Ugaritic literary and ritual studies have often neglected or even ignored the Akkadian material from the same archives, which can be used as a frame of reference for the Ugaritic texts. The aim of this work is to offer a comprehensive study of the consonantal (Ugaritic) as well as the syllabic (Akkadian) incantation and anti-witchcraft texts from Ras Shamra as a unified corpus. These texts, dealing with impending dangers (mainly snakebites) and witchcraft attacks, are placed in the context of Ancient Near Eastern magic literature. A discussion of general topics, including magic and religion, the Ugaritic gods of magic, and the definition of incantation, is followed by a new collation and translation of the Akkadian texts, as well as new photographic material for both series. The main focus of this book is the close reading of the consonantal texts in the context of the much larger and better analyzed corpus of Akkadian magic literature.

Gregorio del Olmo Lete, University of Barcelona, Spain.

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ISBN 13	9781614516279
ISBN 10	1614516278
Title	Incantations and Anti-Witchcraft Texts from Ugarit
Author	Gregorio Del Olmo Lete
Series	Studies In Ancient Near Eastern Records
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Publisher	De Gruyter
Year published	2014-05-26
Number of pages	287
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