Download or read book The Witchcraft Series Maqlu written by Tzvi Abusch and published by SBL Press. This book was released on 2015-03-15 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new reconstruction and translation of the Maqlû text The Akkadian series Maqlû, “Burning,” is one of the most significant and interesting magical texts from the Ancient Near East. The incantations and accompanying rituals are directed against witches and witchcraft and ctually represent a single complex ceremony. The ceremony was performed during a single night and into the following morning at the end of the month Abu (July/August), a time when spirits were thought to move back and forth between the netherworld and the world of the living. Features: English translation of approximately 100 incantations and rituals Annotated transcription Introduction places the series in historical context and shows how it is a product of a complex literary and ceremonial development.
Download or read book The Magical Ceremony Maql written by Tzvi Abusch and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Akkadian series Maqlû is the most important magical text against witchcraft from Mesopotamia. This new edition of the standard text contains a synoptic edition of all manuscripts, a composite text in transliteration, an annotated transcription and translation.
Download or read book Mesopotamian Witchcraft written by Tzvi Abusch and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-07-26 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is about the history, literature, ritual, and thought associated with ancient Mesopotamian witchcraft. With chapters on the changing forms and roles of witchcraft beliefs, the ritual function, form, and development of the Maqlû text (the most important ancient work on the subject), and the meaning of the Maqlû ceremony, as well as the ideology of the final version of the text. The volume significantly contributes to our understanding of the Maqlû text, and the reconstruction of the development of thought about witchcraft and magic in Mesopotamia.
Download or read book Babylonian Witchcraft Literature written by I. Abusch and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Anti witchcraft Ritual Maql written by Daniel Schwemer and published by Harrassowitz. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book examines the epigraphy and history of transmission of the cuneiform sources of the Maqlû antiwitchcraft ritual, one of the major compositions of ancient Mesopotamian exorcistic lore ... the manuscripts are presented in 'hand-copies' (technical drawings) on the plates in the second half of the book."--Preface, p. [vii].
Download or read book The Maqlu Ritual Book written by Joshua Free and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collector's edition of a long-lost translated cuneiform tablet collection revealing the most ancient and complete guide to Babylonian spiritual and magical protection spells, exorcisms rites, and banishing rituals--right from the heart of Mesopotamia as used by Mardukite priests, priestesses and magicians of Sumerian Anunnaki tradition. The Maqlu Ritual Tablets of Babylon... the most ancient and coveted complete magical manual concerning the Dark Arts ever known to man--newly translated and prepared by the "Mardukite Research Organization" for a special 10th Anniversary Collector's Edition. This tome celebrates a decade of intensive academic and esoteric exploration, drawn from the underground archives of "Mardukite Chamberlains," and now accessible to the modern public for contemporary practice in an incredible new way for the first time ever. Here is an authentic cuneiform tablet collection--perhaps the very first "spellbook" of its kind on the planet--the complete account of a Mesopotamian magical tradition that forms a "grimoire" of very real and very ancient Sumerian Anunnaki magic. "The Maqlu Ritual Book" reveals materials used by magicians and priests for thousands of years to reverse the effects of evil spells and curses, banish disease and nightmares, combat in wizards' duels, and even conjure protection and blessings of the gods to benefit the entire community! The Maqlu Ritual Tablets of Babylon... no mere "folk magic" or rural witches Book of Shadows, the Maqlu cuneiform tablet series was first in possession only of the highest orders of priest-scribes, temple-magicians, priestesses and kings of ancient Mesopotamia--the ancient "cradle of modern human civilization." Maqlu magic was so powerful that the government of the greatest ancient empires in history employed it to ensure prosperous lands, happiness among the population, and carrying the awesome abilities to dispel chaos, evil, and malignant forces in the world--things we long for, and are in great need of, even today. Perhaps this long forgotten occult secret is the key!
Download or read book Gendered Violence in Biblical Narrative written by Esther Brownsmith and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-04-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses three examples of violent biblical stories about women, explored through the lens of conceptual metaphor theory in relation to culinary language used within these texts, to examine wider issues of gender and sexual violence in the Hebrew Bible. Utilising the tools of conceptual metaphor theory, feminist criticism, and classic textual analysis, Brownsmith interrogates some of the most troubling biblical passages for women—neither by redeeming them nor by condemning them, but by showing how they are intrinsically shaped by the enduring metaphor of woman as food in the Hebrew Bible, ancient Near East, and beyond. The volume explores three main case studies: the Levite’s “concubine” (Judges 19); Tamar and Amnon (2 Sam 13); and the life and death of Jezebel (primarily 1 Kings 21 and 2 Kings 9). All depict violence toward a woman as perpetrated by a man, interwoven with culinary language that cues their metaphorical implications. In these sensitive but critical readings of violent tales, Brownsmith also draws on a broad range of interdisciplinary connections from Ricoeur to ancient Ugaritic epics to modern comic books. Through this approach, readers gain new insights into how the Bible shapes its narratives through conceptual metaphors, and specifically how it makes meaning out of women’s brutalized bodies. Gendered Violence in Biblical Narrative: The Devouring Metaphor is suitable for students and scholars working on gender and sexual violence in the Hebrew Bible and the ancient Near East more broadly, as well as those working on conceptual metaphor theory and feminist criticism.
Download or read book The Necronomicon written by Simon and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1980-03-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past 31 years, there has been a lot of ink—actual and virtual—spilled on the subject of the Necronomicon. Some have derided it as a clumsy hoax; others have praised it as a powerful grimoire. As the decades have passed, more information has come to light both on the book's origins and discovery, and on the information contained within its pages. The Necronomicon has been found to contain formula for spiritual trans-formation, consistent with some of the most ancient mystical processes in the world, processes that were not public knowledge when the book was first published, processes that involve communion with the stars. In spite of all the controversy, the first edition sold out before it was published. And it has never been out of print since then. This year, the original designer of the 1977 edition and the original editor have joined forces to present a new, deluxe hardcover edition of the most feared, most reviled, and most desired occult book on the planet.
Download or read book The Casting of Spells written by Christopher J Penczak and published by . This book was released on 2016-08 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning and best-selling author Christopher Penczak's introductory guide to spell-work and spell-casting.
Download or read book Maqlu Magic written by Joshua Free and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE MAQLU... ...the most ancient and coveted manual of the DARK ARTS ever known to man -- finally translated for accessible modern practice by the Mardukite Chamberlains for the first time ever in print to the public -- the product of a three year intensive venture! THE MAQLU... ...an authentic "Necronomicon Spellbook" of Mesopotamian Magick drawn from the sands of Babylonia -- as known to the Sumerians then reinvented in Babylon -- forming a complete Anunnaki ('alien sky god') "grimoire" -- a complete handbook dedicated to ENKI, MARDUK and SAMAS and used by magicians and priests for thousands of years to combat in wizards' duels, reverse the effects of evil spells and curses, banish disease and nightmares, and conjure the protection and blessings of the gods! THE MAQLU... ...no mere 'folk magic' or rural witches' "Book of Shadows," the MAQLU (M-Series) of cuneiform tablets was first in possession of the 'highest order' of priest-scribes and temple-magicians in ancient Mesopotamia -- the cradle-origins of human civilization. So powerful was the MAQLU that the government of the greatest empires in history employed its use to ensure prosperous lands, happiness among the people and to dispel the chaotic, negative and malignant forces in the community -- things we long for even now... and perhaps as in the long forgotten millennium past, the MAQLU provides an answer just as relevant today! MAQLU MAGIC is the previously unpublished conclusion to the "Tablet-M Series" of the Mardukite Chamberlains, found within the "Necronomicon Anunnaki Bible," now available to the public in conjunction with the Mardukite Truth Seeker Press edition as "Liber M - The New MAQLU Translation" and simultaneously released by the Mardukites as "Necronomicon Spellbook II: The Magick of the Maqlu" edited by Joshua Free.
Download or read book The Magical Treatise of Solomon Or Hygromanteia written by Ioannis Marathakis and published by . This book was released on 2012-03-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Magical Treatise of Solomon, or Hygromanteia is the ultimate grimoire--the absolute foundation of ceremonial magic. The true source of the Key of Solomon, it is arguably the most significant magical text in the world. For the first time ever, this extraordinary work has been translated from the original Greek into English, allowing magic scholars worldwide to finally access its treasures. The translator, Ioannis Marathakis, is a native born Greek academic with an extensive knowledge of ceremonial magic. Unlike the abridged Latin translation, this groundbreaking work is the complete text, now arranged in its proper order.
Download or read book Mesopotamian Magic written by I. Tzvi Abusch and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1999 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, edited by Tzvi Zbusch and Karel van der Toorn, contains the papers delivered at the first international conference on Mesopotamian magic held under the auspices of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS) in June 1995. It is the first collective volume dedicated to the study of this topic. It aims at serving as a bench-mark and provides analytic and innovative but also sythetic and programmatic essays. Magical texts, forms, and traditions from the Mesopotamian cultural worlds of the third millennium BCE through the first millennium CE, in the Sumerian, Akkadian and Aramaic languages as well as in art, are examined.
Download or read book Ancient Mesopotamia written by A. Leo Oppenheim and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This splendid work of scholarship . . . sums up with economy and power all that the written record so far deciphered has to tell about the ancient and complementary civilizations of Babylon and Assyria."—Edward B. Garside, New York Times Book Review Ancient Mesopotamia—the area now called Iraq—has received less attention than ancient Egypt and other long-extinct and more spectacular civilizations. But numerous small clay tablets buried in the desert soil for thousands of years make it possible for us to know more about the people of ancient Mesopotamia than any other land in the early Near East. Professor Oppenheim, who studied these tablets for more than thirty years, used his intimate knowledge of long-dead languages to put together a distinctively personal picture of the Mesopotamians of some three thousand years ago. Following Oppenheim's death, Erica Reiner used the author's outline to complete the revisions he had begun. "To any serious student of Mesopotamian civilization, this is one of the most valuable books ever written."—Leonard Cottrell, Book Week "Leo Oppenheim has made a bold, brave, pioneering attempt to present a synthesis of the vast mass of philological and archaeological data that have accumulated over the past hundred years in the field of Assyriological research."—Samuel Noah Kramer, Archaeology A. Leo Oppenheim, one of the most distinguished Assyriologists of our time, was editor in charge of the Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute and John A. Wilson Professor of Oriental Studies at the University of Chicago.
Download or read book Maskim Hul written by Michael Ford and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-12-21 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maskim Hul is a complete grimoire of Tiamat-centered magick, pre-luciferian sorcery developed from authentic Mesopotamian clay tablets. Tiamat, Kingu and the 11 Chaos-Monsters created by Tiamat are explored, their functions, manifestations and how they survived and existed in the pantheon of Marduk, Ea and the other gods. The gods, demons and evil spirits of Mesopotamia are presented along with Cuneiform sigils and documentation of their use in sorcery. The extensive Invocations of the Gods, Hymns and the entire foundation of authentic Kassapu-practice of ancient Babylon is offered in a concise manner. The grimoire is founded and dedicated to the Seven Sebitti or Maskim, the "Seven Evil Gods" or rebels along with Lamashtu, Lilith are presented in a plethora of rituals and their names of calling. The Serpent Gods of fertility, Ishtar revealed as a form of Tiamat (from pantheon sources) and the rites of necromancy and the Black Flame (Melammu) is presented.
Download or read book Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament written by John H. Walton and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading evangelical scholar John Walton surveys the cultural context of the ancient Near East, bringing insight to the interpretation of specific Old Testament passages. This new edition of a top-selling textbook has been thoroughly updated and revised throughout to reflect the refined thinking of a mature scholar. It includes over 30 illustrations. Students and pastors who want to deepen their understanding of the Old Testament will find this a helpful and instructive study.
Download or read book Like Ilu Are You Wise written by H. H. Hardy and published by Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume honors Dennis G. Pardee, Henry Crown Professor of Hebrew Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago and one of the preeminent experts in Northwest Semitic languages and literatures, particularly Ugaritic studies. The thirty-seven essays by colleagues and former students reflect the wide range of Professor Pardee's research interests and include, among other topics, new readings of inscriptions, studies of poetic structure, and investigations of Late Bronze Age society.
Download or read book Women s Divination in Biblical Literature written by Esther J. Hamori and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divination, the use of special talents and techniques to gain divine knowledge, was practiced in many different forms in ancient Israel and throughout the ancient world. The Hebrew Bible reveals a variety of traditions of women associated with divination. This sensitive and incisive book by respected scholar Esther J. Hamori examines the wide scope of women’s divinatory activities as portrayed in the Hebrew texts, offering readers a new appreciation of the surprising breadth of women’s “arts of knowledge” in biblical times. Unlike earlier approaches to the subject that have viewed prophecy separately from other forms of divination, Hamori’s study encompasses the full range of divinatory practices and the personages who performed them, from the female prophets and the medium of En-dor to the matriarch who interprets a birth omen and the “wise women” of Tekoa and Abel and more. In doing so, the author brings into clearer focus the complex, rich, and diverse world of ancient Israelite divination.
