Overview

In this volume, I. Tzvi Abusch presents studies written over a span of forty years prior to his retirement from Brandeis University in 2019. They reflect several themes that he has pursued in addition to his work on witchcraft literature and the Epic of Gilgamesh. Part 1 includes general articles on Mesopotamian magic, religion, and mythology, followed by a set of articles on Akkadian prayers, especially šuillas, focusing on exegetical and linguistic (synchronic) studies and on diachronic analyses. Part 2 contains a series of literary studies of Mesopotamian and biblical classics. Part 3 is devoted to comparative studies of terms and phenomena. Part 4 examines legal texts. The Harvard Semitic Studies series publishes volumes from the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East. Other series offered by Brill that publish volumes from the Museum include Studies in the Archaeology and History of the Levant and Harvard Semitic Monographs, https://hmane.harvard.edu/publications.

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"""This volume collects together 25 essays that have been published over a period of nearly four decades of A.’s significant contribution to the study of Babylonian literature and religion and its interface with biblical material. The wide range of papers reflects his deep knowledge in various sub-fields, such as diachronic and synchronic approaches alongside exegesis of primary sources. (...) This important collection will definitely be a valuable tool for those interested in an emic perspective of the milieu in which these texts were produced and developed."" - Anderson Yan, in The Society for Old Testament Study Book List 2022."

This volume collects together 25 essays that have been published over a period of nearly four decades of A.'s significant contribution to the study of Babylonian literature and religion and its interface with biblical material. The wide range of papers reflects his deep knowledge in various sub-fields, such as diachronic and synchronic approaches alongside exegesis of primary sources. (...) This important collection will definitely be a valuable tool for those interested in an emic perspective of the milieu in which these texts were produced and developed. - Anderson Yan, in The Society for Old Testament Study Book List 2022.

""This volume collects together 25 essays that have been published over a period of nearly four decades of A.’s significant contribution to the study of Babylonian literature and religion and its interface with biblical material. The wide range of papers reflects his deep knowledge in various sub-fields, such as diachronic and synchronic approaches alongside exegesis of primary sources. (...) This important collection will definitely be a valuable tool for those interested in an emic perspective of the milieu in which these texts were produced and developed."" - Anderson Yan, in The Society for Old Testament Study Book List 2022.

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I. Tzvi Abusch, Ph.D. (1972), Harvard University, is Cohen Professor Emeritus of Assyriology and Ancient Near Eastern Religion at Brandeis University. His primary fields of publication are Mesopotamian religion and literature. A number of his studies on Babylonian witchcraft are collected in Mesopotamian Witchcraft (Brill, 2002) and Further Studies on Mesopotamian Witchcraft Beliefs (Brill, 2020). He is author of The Magical Ceremony Maqlû: A Critical Edition (Brill, 2016) and co-author of Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-witchcraft Rituals (Brill, 2011–2020).

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