Babylonian Magic and Sorcery: Being the Prayers of the Lifting of the Hand Tapa dura - 2000
de Leonard W. King
Primera línea
The plan on which the following pages have been arranged requires perhaps a word of explanation.
Descripción de la solapa
The purpose of Babylonian Magic and Sorcery is stated in the first sentence of the Preface: "The object of the present work is to give the cuneiform text of a complete group of tablets inscribed with prayers and religious compositions of a devotional and somewhat magical character". But this is not all that King provides. He transliterated and, where the tablets are complete, translated in full. All of the tablets come from one site: Kuyunjik, the site of the ancient city of Ninevah, where King would later conduct his own excavations, and on whose inscriptions he was the acknowledged authority.
The texts and translations are accurately presented and definitive. King's notes are concise, to the point, and easy to follow. But this is a highly technical book, designed for the professional, whether that professional be Assyriologist, paleographer, or magician. What, then, is its value to the non-professional reader? The answer is clear. Babylonian Magic and Sorcery offers us the means to gain an insight into the magico-religious concepts of the Semitic nations. And it is these concepts, and the magic based upon them, that underlie the worldview of the Western esoteric tradition, for that tradition is essentially Judaeo-Christian -- it does not, save indirectly, derive from ancient Egypt.
-- From the Foreword by R. A. Gilbert
Detalles
- Título Babylonian Magic and Sorcery: Being the Prayers of the Lifting of the Hand
- Autor Leonard W. King
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Edición First Edition
- Páginas 336
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Weiser Books, York Beach, Maine, U.S.A.
- Fecha de publicación December 2000
- Ilustrado Sí
- Features Glossary, Illustrated
- ISBN 9780877289340 / 0877289344
- Peso 1.38 libras (0.63 kg)
- Dimensiones 9.34 x 6.36 x 1.13 pulgadas (23.72 x 16.15 x 2.87 cm)
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Temas
- Religious Orientation: New Age
- Library of Congress subjects Akkadian language, Magic, Assyro-Babylonian
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 00036516
- Dewey Decimal Code 299.21
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