I Tzvi Abusch
Biographic Data
| ID | 2332300 |
|---|---|
| NAME | I Tzvi Abusch |
| GIVEN NAMES | I Tzvi |
| FAMILY NAME | Abusch |
| SIGNATURE | ABUSCH I T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brandeis University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Essays on Babylonian and Biblical Literature and Religion
The Reconciliation of Angry Personal Gods
The magical ceremony Maqlu
"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 impor…
Riches Hidden in Secret Places
Providing a scholar's salute to a teacher, colleague, and friend, the contributors to this volume honor the memory of Thorkild Jacobsen with essays on Mesopotamian history, culture, literature, and religion.
Alaktu and Halakhah Oracular Decision, Divine Revelation
This paper contains some thoughts about words. It is a modest undertaking and is meant to do no more than elaborate upon and set forth the reasoning underlying a proposal that I advanced some years ago regarding the meaning of Akkadian alaktu and its relation to the Jewish terms Hebrew hălāḵā and Aramaic hilḵĕṯā . In preparing this paper, I have had before me two distinct goals and have, accordingly, divided the paper into two separate sections. …
The form and Meaning of a Babylonian Prayer to Marduk
I. Tzvi Abusch, The form and Meaning of a Babylonian Prayer to Marduk, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 103, No. 1, Studies in Literature from the Ancient Near East, by Members of the American Oriental Society, Dedicated to Samuel Noah Kramer (Jan. - Mar., 1983), pp. 3-15
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The form and Meaning of a Babylonian Prayer to Marduk
I. Tzvi Abusch, The form and Meaning of a Babylonian Prayer to Marduk, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 103, No. 1, Studies in Literature from the Ancient Near East, by Members of the American Oriental Society, Dedicated to Samuel Noah Kramer (Jan. - Mar., 1983), pp. 3-15
Alaktu and Halakhah Oracular Decision, Divine Revelation
This paper contains some thoughts about words. It is a modest undertaking and is meant to do no more than elaborate upon and set forth the reasoning underlying a proposal that I advanced some years ago regarding the meaning of Akkadian alaktu and its relation to the Jewish terms Hebrew hălāḵā and Aramaic hilḵĕṯā . In preparing this paper, I have had before me two distinct goals and have, accordingly, divided the paper into two separate sections. …
Riches Hidden in Secret Places
Providing a scholar's salute to a teacher, colleague, and friend, the contributors to this volume honor the memory of Thorkild Jacobsen with essays on Mesopotamian history, culture, literature, and religion.
The magical ceremony Maqlu
"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 impor…
Essays on Babylonian and Biblical Literature and Religion
The Reconciliation of Angry Personal Gods
Ancient Near East History (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (2 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Meaning (existential) (2 works)