Joann Scurlock
Biographic Data
| ID | 1439352 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joann Scurlock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joann |
| FAMILY NAME | Scurlock |
| SIGNATURE | SCURLOCK J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Elmhurst College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Commentary on a Commentary on Ancient Mesopotamian Commentaries
A gathering of the available ancient diagnostic commentaries, difficult as they are, should allow for the discovery of many interesting insights into the production of knowledge in ancient Mesopotamia. The work under review is disappointing in this regard. The presentation is cumbersome and confusing. The translations are all too often inaccurate, as are the interpretations. All in all, the work represents a step or two backward from previous edi…
Qadishtum
The Akkadian word qadištum ( qadishtum ), equivalent to Canaanite qedešah , denotes a “holy woman,” that is, a minor priestess.
Mesopotamian Medicine, Magic, and Literature: Tribute to a Polymath
Mark Geller is well known to everyone in his field and, unsurprisingly, his Festschrift is a bulging volume of contributions-from thirty-four scholars in a variety of different specialties. Like most Festschriften, it is of uneven quality, but there are some very fine articles, including useful text editions and offerings that raise interesting scholarly questions. Although there is nothing here on economics, there are articles that engage histor…
Magic, ancient Near East
Interaction between human beings and spirits in the ancient Near East was readily divisible into two unequal parts. Of these, one part, which we might term “religion,” was god‐centered. The other part, by contrast, which we might term “magic,” was man‐centered. Magic came in three types: good magic, bad magic (sorcery), and conditional magic.
Lilitu
Lilitu was a member of a class of ghost‐demons of young people who died unmarried. They victimized young persons of the opposite sex from themselves. They were believed to be a cause of personality disorders.
Lamashtu
Lamashtu was daughter of the sky‐god Anu and was cast from heaven for her taste for human flesh. She preyed on pregnant women and young children and was causal agent of typhoid fever. To neutralize her she was given a husband, Pazuzu.
Marginalia to Mesopotamian Malevolent Magic
This is a review article of Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals, vol. 1. By Tzvi Abusch and Daniel Schwemer. Ancient Magic and Divination, vol. 8/1. Leiden: Brill, 2011. Pp. xvi + 482, plates. $255
Herbal, ancient Near East
Overview of the medical‐botanical reference works of ancient Mesopotamia.
Mortal and Immortal Souls, Ghosts and the (Restless) Dead in Ancient Mesopotamia
Ever since their original creation from mortal clay mixed with the flesh and blood of an immortal god, Ancient Mesopotamians had a part of themselves that survived death. We call this death-surviving part the soul. Ancient Mesopotamians, however, like ancient Greeks, understood this surviving bit as a complex of elements with differing possibilities of survival or, if you will, multiple souls of differing levels of immortality. Of these spiritual…
Divination, ancient Near East
Divination in its broadest sense covers any form of communication between humans and spirits.
Lamashtu
Lamashtu was a minor Mesopotamian divinity and a daughter of the sky‐god Anu. According to the story of Atrahasis, Lamashtu was assigned the task of ensuring that the human population did not spiral out of control, which was beneficial to humankind in that it averted any future Great Flood.
Qadishtum
The Akkadian word qadištum ( qadishtum ), equivalent to Canaanite qedešah , denotes a “holy woman,” that is, a minor priestess.
Dumuzi (Tammuz)
According to Sumerian mythology, Dumuzi was a shepherd who became the first king by virtue of his love match with the goddess Inanna.
Marriage, sacred, ancient Near East
Sacred marriage comprises several distinct, but interrelated, phenomena.
Oaths, ancient Near East
In the ancient Near East, oaths served four main purposes: to regulate international relations, to clarify the obligations of citizens to their government, to enforce legal contracts between private citizens, and to decide legal cases in courts of law.
Magic, ancient Near East
Interaction between human beings and spirits in the ancient Near East was readily divisible into two unequal parts.
A Weakness for Hellenism
Ancient Mesopotamian House Gods
The gods of the Mesopotamian house appear to have been Gula, Ištar, Išum, and the Pleiades, as well as toilet demon 'Šulak, the gate-guarding Kusarikku, and the divine protectors of other, lesser, parts of the house
Bce: Hellenism or Reform
La politique des Seleucides est largement connue a partir de recits ecrits apres les evenements par leurs opposants politiques. Mais est-il possible de trouver une justification aux decrets juifs d'Antiochus IV Epiphane d'un point de vue seleucide ? L'A. propose ici des idees sur ce sujet en le considerant sous un angle inhabituel : peut-etre l'element le plus controverse de sa politique, a savoir le sacrifice force de porcs lors d'une fete de la…
Akkadische Rituale aus Ḫattuša: Die Sammeltafel KBo XXXVI 29 und verwandte Fragmente
Herodotos' Median Chronology Again
Kar 267 // BMS 53: A Ghostly Light on bīt rimki
La serie magique de rituels assyriens bit rimki visait a transferer les maux (particulierement ceux que laissaient presager les eclipses) du roi sur une serie d'injustes esprits persecuteurs. Divisee en sept maisons , la serie assigne a chaque persecuteur son juste châtiment. Cependant, l'incantation propre de la septieme Maison n'avait pas jusqu'ici ete identifiee. L'A. suggere que l'incantation manquante pourrait etre la tablette BMS 53//KAR 26…
Mortal and Immortal Souls, Ghosts and the (Restless) Dead in Ancient Mesopotamia
Ever since their original creation from mortal clay mixed with the flesh and blood of an immortal god, Ancient Mesopotamians had a part of themselves that survived death. We call this death-surviving part the soul. Ancient Mesopotamians, however, like ancient Greeks, understood this surviving bit as a complex of elements with differing possibilities of survival or, if you will, multiple souls of differing levels of immortality. Of these spiritual…
Kar 267 // BMS 53: A Ghostly Light on bīt rimki
La serie magique de rituels assyriens bit rimki visait a transferer les maux (particulierement ceux que laissaient presager les eclipses) du roi sur une serie d'injustes esprits persecuteurs. Divisee en sept maisons , la serie assigne a chaque persecuteur son juste châtiment. Cependant, l'incantation propre de la septieme Maison n'avait pas jusqu'ici ete identifiee. L'A. suggere que l'incantation manquante pourrait etre la tablette BMS 53//KAR 26…
Herodotos' Median Chronology Again
Bce: Hellenism or Reform
La politique des Seleucides est largement connue a partir de recits ecrits apres les evenements par leurs opposants politiques. Mais est-il possible de trouver une justification aux decrets juifs d'Antiochus IV Epiphane d'un point de vue seleucide ? L'A. propose ici des idees sur ce sujet en le considerant sous un angle inhabituel : peut-etre l'element le plus controverse de sa politique, a savoir le sacrifice force de porcs lors d'une fete de la…
Akkadische Rituale aus Ḫattuša: Die Sammeltafel KBo XXXVI 29 und verwandte Fragmente
Ancient Mesopotamian House Gods
The gods of the Mesopotamian house appear to have been Gula, Ištar, Išum, and the Pleiades, as well as toilet demon 'Šulak, the gate-guarding Kusarikku, and the divine protectors of other, lesser, parts of the house
A Weakness for Hellenism
Divination, ancient Near East
Divination in its broadest sense covers any form of communication between humans and spirits.
Lamashtu
Lamashtu was a minor Mesopotamian divinity and a daughter of the sky‐god Anu. According to the story of Atrahasis, Lamashtu was assigned the task of ensuring that the human population did not spiral out of control, which was beneficial to humankind in that it averted any future Great Flood.
Qadishtum
The Akkadian word qadištum ( qadishtum ), equivalent to Canaanite qedešah , denotes a “holy woman,” that is, a minor priestess.
Dumuzi (Tammuz)
According to Sumerian mythology, Dumuzi was a shepherd who became the first king by virtue of his love match with the goddess Inanna.
Marriage, sacred, ancient Near East
Sacred marriage comprises several distinct, but interrelated, phenomena.
Oaths, ancient Near East
In the ancient Near East, oaths served four main purposes: to regulate international relations, to clarify the obligations of citizens to their government, to enforce legal contracts between private citizens, and to decide legal cases in courts of law.
Magic, ancient Near East
Interaction between human beings and spirits in the ancient Near East was readily divisible into two unequal parts.
Mortal and Immortal Souls, Ghosts and the (Restless) Dead in Ancient Mesopotamia
Ever since their original creation from mortal clay mixed with the flesh and blood of an immortal god, Ancient Mesopotamians had a part of themselves that survived death. We call this death-surviving part the soul. Ancient Mesopotamians, however, like ancient Greeks, understood this surviving bit as a complex of elements with differing possibilities of survival or, if you will, multiple souls of differing levels of immortality. Of these spiritual…
Herbal, ancient Near East
Overview of the medical‐botanical reference works of ancient Mesopotamia.
Lilitu
Lilitu was a member of a class of ghost‐demons of young people who died unmarried. They victimized young persons of the opposite sex from themselves. They were believed to be a cause of personality disorders.
Lamashtu
Lamashtu was daughter of the sky‐god Anu and was cast from heaven for her taste for human flesh. She preyed on pregnant women and young children and was causal agent of typhoid fever. To neutralize her she was given a husband, Pazuzu.
Marginalia to Mesopotamian Malevolent Magic
This is a review article of Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals, vol. 1. By Tzvi Abusch and Daniel Schwemer. Ancient Magic and Divination, vol. 8/1. Leiden: Brill, 2011. Pp. xvi + 482, plates. $255
Magic, ancient Near East
Interaction between human beings and spirits in the ancient Near East was readily divisible into two unequal parts. Of these, one part, which we might term “religion,” was god‐centered. The other part, by contrast, which we might term “magic,” was man‐centered. Magic came in three types: good magic, bad magic (sorcery), and conditional magic.
Qadishtum
The Akkadian word qadištum ( qadishtum ), equivalent to Canaanite qedešah , denotes a “holy woman,” that is, a minor priestess.
Mesopotamian Medicine, Magic, and Literature: Tribute to a Polymath
Mark Geller is well known to everyone in his field and, unsurprisingly, his Festschrift is a bulging volume of contributions-from thirty-four scholars in a variety of different specialties. Like most Festschriften, it is of uneven quality, but there are some very fine articles, including useful text editions and offerings that raise interesting scholarly questions. Although there is nothing here on economics, there are articles that engage histor…
Commentary on a Commentary on Ancient Mesopotamian Commentaries
A gathering of the available ancient diagnostic commentaries, difficult as they are, should allow for the discovery of many interesting insights into the production of knowledge in ancient Mesopotamia. The work under review is disappointing in this regard. The presentation is cumbersome and confusing. The translations are all too often inaccurate, as are the interpretations. All in all, the work represents a step or two backward from previous edi…
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