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The Akkadian series Maqlû , 'Burning', remains the most important magical text against witchcraft from Mesopotamia and perhaps from the entire ancient Near East. Maqlû is a nine-tablet work consisting of the text of almost 100 incantations and accompanying rituals directed against witches and witchcraft. The work prescribes a single complex ceremony and stands at the end of a complex literary and ceremonial development. Thus, Maqlû provides important information not only about the literary forms and cultural ideas of individual incantations, but also about larger ritual structures and thematic relations of complex ceremonies. This new edition of the standard text contains a synoptic edition of all manuscripts, a composite text in transliteration, an annotated transcription and translation. 'These were only minor remarks scribbled in the margins of an excellent and most welcome edition of Maqlû, a real monument. This book is the firm foundation on which future studies on Maqlû will be based.' Marten Stol, NINO Leiden, Bibliotheca Orientalis lxxIII n° 5-6, September-December 2016

Incantations, Assyro-Babylonian. --- Magic, Assyro-Babylonian. --- Assyro-Babylonian magic --- Magic, Chaldean --- Akkadian incantations --- Assyro-Babylonian incantations --- Incantations, Akkadian

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Incantations, Assyro-Babylonian --- Magic, Assyro-Babylonian --- Incantations assyro-babyloniennes. --- Magic, Assyro-Babylonian. --- Incantations, Assyro-Babylonian. --- Akkadian incantations --- Assyro-Babylonian incantations --- Incantations, Akkadian --- Assyro-Babylonian magic --- Magic, Chaldean

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Incantations, Assyro-Babylonian --- Akkadian language --- Texts --- -Incantations, Assyro-Babylonian --- Akkadian incantations --- Assyro-Babylonian incantations --- Incantations, Akkadian --- Accadian language --- Assyrian language --- Assyro-Babylonian language --- Babylonian language --- Semitic languages --- Incantations, Assyro-Babylonian. --- Texts. --- Akkadian language - Texts

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Among the most important sources for understanding the cultures and systems of thought of ancient Mesopotamia is a large body of magical and medical texts written in the Sumerian and Akkadian languages. An especially significant branch of this literature centres upon witchcraft. Mesopotamian anti-witchcraft rituals and incantations attribute ill-health and misfortune to the magic machinations of witches and prescribe ceremonies, devices, and treatments for dispelling witchcraft, destroying the witch, and protecting and curing the patient. The Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-witchcraft Rituals aims to present a reconstruction of this body of texts; it provides critical editions of the relevant rituals and prescriptions based on the study of the cuneiform tablets and fragments recovered from the libraries of ancient Mesopotamia. This is the first volume in the three-part Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-witchcraft Rituals series . Volumes two and three are expected in 2015 and 2018 respectively. 'Even in its incomplete form, Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals is a major contribution to the study of witchcraft, supernatural belief, folk medicine (both supernatural and non-supernatural), theories of magic, incantations, and ritual. This edition is required reading for any scholar with an interest in these topics.' David Elton Gay, Indiana University

Incantations, Assyro-Babylonian. --- Incantations, Sumerian. --- Ritual --- Witchcraft --- Sumerian incantations --- Akkadian incantations --- Assyro-Babylonian incantations --- Incantations, Akkadian --- Cult --- Cultus --- Liturgies --- Public worship --- Symbolism --- Worship --- Rites and ceremonies --- Ritualism --- Black art (Witchcraft) --- Sorcery --- Occultism --- Wicca --- History

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"Among the most important sources for understanding the cultures, religions, and systems of thought of ancient Mesopotamia is the large corpus of magical and medical texts directed against witchcraft. The most important of these texts is the Akkadian series Maqlû ("Burning"). This volume offers a collection of studies on Mesopotamian witchcraft and Maqlû written subsequent to the appearance of the author's 2002 collection of studies on witchcraft (Brill, 2002). Many of the studies reprinted here take a diachronic approach to individual incantations and rituals and attempt to solve textual difficulties using literary-critical and/or text-critical approaches"--

Witchcraft --- Magic, Assyro-Babylonian. --- Incantations, Assyro-Babylonian. --- Ritual --- Cult --- Cultus --- Liturgies --- Public worship --- Symbolism --- Worship --- Rites and ceremonies --- Ritualism --- Akkadian incantations --- Assyro-Babylonian incantations --- Incantations, Akkadian --- Assyro-Babylonian magic --- Magic, Chaldean --- Black art (Witchcraft) --- Sorcery --- Occultism --- Wicca --- Maqlû. --- Maklu