Teaching and Learning Guide For: Interpreting Magic and Divination in the Ancient Near East and Magic and Divination in Ancient Israel
Author: Ann Jeffers
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 881
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Author: Ann Jeffers
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 881
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Frederick H. Cryer
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 376
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ann Jeffers
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9789004105133
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis publication is a detailed study of magical and divinatory practices in the Ancient Near East, particularly in Palestine and Syria. It combines the insights of the Old Testament with the data available from Phoenician and the older Ugaritic texts. It traces the links both historically and archaeologically.
Author: Elisheva Nesher
Publisher: Weiser Books
Published: 2022-11-01
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1633411842
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“In Casting Lots, Elisheva Nesher does not just present the system of using the aleph-beit to cast lots for spiritual guidance and wisdom, she also shows the range of divine beings and spiritual practices in ancient Canaan/Israel, as well as the modern polytheist revival. There is a warmth and generosity here towards all sides that we all can learn from.” —Rachel Pollack, author of Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom and A Walk Through the Forest of Souls Lots are an ancient Hebrew form of divination and magic that may also be used for healing, blessing, cursing, meditation, and spiritual interaction. A set of lots contains twenty-two small discs, each one bearing one of the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet. In a manner similar to runes, these lots are then cast and interpreted. Though lots were once so common that explanations of how to cast them were unnecessary, over the centuries their methods and uses fell into obscurity. In this practical guide, author and seer Elisheva Nesher has reconstructed the ancient art of lot casting for modern times. Her book contains explanations for each of the twenty-two lots and explores their meanings, both mystical and mundane. It also includes detailed instructions on how to cast, as well as craft your own set of lots. In addition to divination, Casting Lots explores the magical gifts of the lots as well as how to use them to contact and interact with the Hebrew spirits, such as Asherah. A brief guide is included for those unfamiliar with these spirits. Casting Lots is a complete instruction manual for mastering the art of lot casting.
Author: Thomas Witton Davies
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 154
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-12-11
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9004687416
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs magic is a powerful means to influence the natural world and human beings, and is deeply connected to the divine sphere, persons using it are in constant need to justify its use. The ambivalence of magic to serve both well-wishing and ill-wishing aims puts the practitioners ever at risk. This volume illuminates the strategies adopted to legitimise the practice of magic and analyses how these justifications are phrased and formulated in cuneiform texts, thereby revealing the underlying principles and unexplained axioms of using magic in the Ancient Near East.
Author: Tzvi Abusch
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015-10-05
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9004291709
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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
Author: Thomas Witton Davies
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Published: 1898
Total Pages: 172
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alan Lenzi
Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature
Published: 2014-06-02
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781589839977
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAdvance your understanding of divination’s role in supporting or undermining imperial aspirations in the ancient Near East This collection examines the ways that divinatory texts in the Hebrew Bible and the ancient Near East undermined and upheld the empires in which the texts were composed, edited, and read. Nine essays and an introduction engage biblical scholarship on the Prophets, Assyriology, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the critical study of Ancient Empires. Features: Interdisciplinary approaches include propaganda studies Essays examine how biblical and other ancient Near Eastern texts were shaped by political and theological empires Index of ancient sources
Author: Stefan M. Maul
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Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781481308595
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe art of divination in the ancient Near East : reading the signs of heaven and earth by Stefan M. Maul (2018).