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Abnormalities, Human. --- Medicine, Assyro-Babylonian.

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The Babylonian Talmud is full of stories of demonic encounters, and it also includes many laws that attempt to regulate such encounters. In this book, Sara Ronis takes the reader on a journey across the rabbinic canon, exploring how late antique rabbis imagined, feared, and controlled demons. Ronis contextualizes the Talmud's thought within the rich cultural matrix of Sasanian Babylonia, placing rabbinic thinking in conversation with Sumerian, Akkadian, Ugaritic, Syriac Christian, Zoroastrian, and Second Temple Jewish texts about demons to delve into the interactive communal context in which the rabbis created boundaries between the human and the supernatural, and between themselves and other religious communities. Demons in the Details explores the wide range of ways that the rabbis participated in broader discussions about beliefs and practices with their neighbors, out of which they created a profoundly Jewish demonology.

Demonology --- Incantations, Assyro-Babylonian. --- Jewish demonology. --- Rabbis

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Egypt and Mesopotamia, the cradles(s) of civilization, are often studied separately. This study takes another approach and focuses on the relations between these two river-based civilizations during the seventh century BCE. The preciser aims of this study are to identify Africans (Egyptians, Kushites, Libyans) in Neo-Assyrian texts, and to discuss the presence of Africans in the Neo-Assyrian empire from the viewpoints of individual-biographic and collective-demographic levels and perspectives. The following research questions are posed. Who were these Africans (in terms of ethnicity, gender/sex, age, and class)? What did these people do (in terms of profession)? When did they live (in terms of reign or time period)? Where did they live (in terms of the Assyrian heartland and provinces, the vassal states, or Africa)? How were they incorporated into the Assyrian realm (in terms of forced/voluntary, etc.)?

Assyro-Babylonian literature --- Assyro-Babylonian literature. --- Civilization --- Race relations. --- History and criticism. --- Egyptian influences. --- To 634 --- Assyria --- Iraq --- Iraq. --- Middle East --- History

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Civilisation assyro-babylonienne. --- Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian. --- Mésopotamie --- Babylone (ville ancienne) --- Mesopotamia. --- Babylon (Extinct city)

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"The publication of Keel's Symbolism of the Biblical World (German 1972, English 1978) demonstrated the value of ancient Near Eastern iconography for interpreting biblical texts. In the intervening decades since (and of) Keel's work, iconographic exegesis of the Hebrew Bible has witnessed significant methodological and theoretical developments, many of which can be broadly characterized by an increasing concern with issues of histor(icit)y and contiguity in the image-text comparison. The present work represents a (re)turn to a phenomenological approach to iconographic exegesis that is especially concerned with how images and texts might mutually inform one another at the level of their respective poetics. As a test case for such a comparison, this volume examines how the phenomenon of violence figures in Lamentations 2 and in Ashurbanipal's palace reliefs - specifically, one of the Battle of Til-Tuba programs (Southwest Palace, Room 33) and the lion hunt reliefs (North Palace, Room C).The project begins with a discussion of the neurological and cognitive relationship between seeing images with the eye and imagining them with the "mind's eye" as a means of justifying such a phenomenological approach that compares how ancient artists and the biblical author construct the violent images that are seen and imagined in their works, respectively (ch. 1). It then conducts detailed analyses of the poetics of violent imagery in Lamentations 2 (chs. 2-3), the Battle of Til-Tuba reliefs (ch. 4), and Ashurbanipal's lion hunt reliefs (ch. 5) before providing an extended comparison of the similar and divergent ways that violence figures in the literary and textual images of each piece (ch. 6). Overall, the volume profers new interpretive insights concerning the phenomenon of violence in the ancient Near Eastern artwork and Lamentations 2 specifically - particularly as it pertains to the poem's construction of Yahweh's and Zion's bodies, its perspectival play, its manipulation of time, and the "power" of its imagery in eliciting the divine gaze. The project also demonstrates the utility of ancient Near Eastern art for illuminating not only what but also how a given phenomenon figures in biblical poetry and vice versa." --

Violence in the Bible. --- Violence in art. --- Art, Assyro-Babylonian --- Bible. --- Bible. --- Language, style. --- Nineveh (Extinct city) --- Middle East. --- Palaces --- Art. --- Art, Ancient --- Art