‘Deliver me from Evil’

Mesopotamian Incantations 2550-1500 BC

By (author) G. Cunningham

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Extent: 211 pages

Publisher: Peeters Publishers

Subjects: Ancient Near East, Religious Studies

Series: Studia Pohl. Series Maior

Series volume number: 17

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(December 2007)

ISBN: 9788876536083

Price: $38.00

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This study analyses five aspects of the approximately 450 published Mesopotamian Incantations dating to the period from 2500 to 1500 BC: the incantations’ development during this periods; their functions and particular type of suffering, illness; the verbal techniques they use to request or represent helpful divine intervention towards those ends; their accompanying ritual; the information they provide about the ultimate cause of such suffering, that is harmful divine intervention.

  • By (author) G. Cunningham