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Aramaic Incantation Bowls in Museum Collections
Volume One: The Frau Professor Hilprecht Collection of Babylonian Antiquities, Jena
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The Frau Professor Hilprecht Collection of Babylonian Antiquities at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena houses one of the major European collections of incantation bowls. Forty bowls bear texts written in the Jewish, Manichaean Syriac or Mandaic scripts, and most of the rest (some twenty-five objects) in the Pahlavi script or in various pseudoscripts. The present volume comprises new editions of the Aramaic (and Hebrew) bowl texts based on high-resolution photographs taken by the authors, together with brief descriptions and photographs of the remaining material. New readings are often supported with close-up photographs. The volume is intended to serve as a basis for further study of magic in late Antiquity and of the Late Eastern Aramaic dialects in which the texts were composed.
James Nathan Ford, Ph.D. (2003) in Ugaritic magic, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is Associate Professor in Semitic Languages at Bar-Ilan University. His research interests include Semitic philology and ancient Near Eastern and Jewish magic.
Matthew Morgenstern, Ph.D. (2002) in Babylonian Aramaic, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is Professor in Hebrew and Semitic Languages at Tel Aviv University. His research interests include Eastern Aramaic grammar and lexicography and the Hebrew and Aramaic of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Matthew Morgenstern, Ph.D. (2002) in Babylonian Aramaic, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is Professor in Hebrew and Semitic Languages at Tel Aviv University. His research interests include Eastern Aramaic grammar and lexicography and the Hebrew and Aramaic of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Contents
Preface
Concordance of text Editions (MRLA 8 and TMHC 7)
Photographs
Abbreviations
Sigla
Introduction
I. JBA and Hebrew Bowls
1 HS 3001
2 HS 3003
3 HS 3005
4 HS 3006
5 HS 3007
6 HS 3008
7 HS 3009
8 HS 3010
9 HS 3012
10 HS 3015
11 HS 3016
12 HS 3019
13 HS 3022
14 HS 3023
15 HS 3026
16 HS 3027
17 HS 3030
18 HS 3032
19 HS 3033
20 HS 3034
21 HS 3035
22 HS 3041 + HS 3070x
23 HS 3042
24 HS 3043
25 HS 3046 + HS 3069
26 HS 3047
27 HS 3051
28 HS 3052
29 HS 3058
30 HS 3064
II. Syriac Bowls
31 HS 3018
32 HS 3039
33 HS 3053
34 HS 3056
35 HS 3062
36 HS 3066
III. Mandaic Bowls
37 HS 3011
38 HS 3021
39 HS 3025
40 HS 3054
IV. Unidentified Fragments, Non-Aramaic, Pseudoscript and Uninscribed Objects
41 HS 3002
42 HS 3004
43 HS 3013
44 HS 3014
45 HS 3017
46 HS 3020
47 HS 3024
48 HS 3028
49 HS 3029
50 HS 3031
51 HS 3036
52 HS 3037
53 HS 3038
54 HS 3040
55 HS 3044
56 HS 3045
57 HS 3048
58 HS 3049
59 HS 3050
60 HS 3055
61 HS 3057
62 HS 3059
63 HS 3060
64 HS 3061
65 HS 3063
66 HS 3065
67 HS 3067
68 HS 3068
69 HS 3070
Bibliography
Glossary
List of Divine Names, Names of Angels, Demons and Exemplary Figures, and Nomina Barbara
List of Clients and Adversaries
List of Biblical Quotations
List of Texts
Index
Preface
Concordance of text Editions (MRLA 8 and TMHC 7)
Photographs
Abbreviations
Sigla
Introduction
I. JBA and Hebrew Bowls
1 HS 3001
2 HS 3003
3 HS 3005
4 HS 3006
5 HS 3007
6 HS 3008
7 HS 3009
8 HS 3010
9 HS 3012
10 HS 3015
11 HS 3016
12 HS 3019
13 HS 3022
14 HS 3023
15 HS 3026
16 HS 3027
17 HS 3030
18 HS 3032
19 HS 3033
20 HS 3034
21 HS 3035
22 HS 3041 + HS 3070x
23 HS 3042
24 HS 3043
25 HS 3046 + HS 3069
26 HS 3047
27 HS 3051
28 HS 3052
29 HS 3058
30 HS 3064
II. Syriac Bowls
31 HS 3018
32 HS 3039
33 HS 3053
34 HS 3056
35 HS 3062
36 HS 3066
III. Mandaic Bowls
37 HS 3011
38 HS 3021
39 HS 3025
40 HS 3054
IV. Unidentified Fragments, Non-Aramaic, Pseudoscript and Uninscribed Objects
41 HS 3002
42 HS 3004
43 HS 3013
44 HS 3014
45 HS 3017
46 HS 3020
47 HS 3024
48 HS 3028
49 HS 3029
50 HS 3031
51 HS 3036
52 HS 3037
53 HS 3038
54 HS 3040
55 HS 3044
56 HS 3045
57 HS 3048
58 HS 3049
59 HS 3050
60 HS 3055
61 HS 3057
62 HS 3059
63 HS 3060
64 HS 3061
65 HS 3063
66 HS 3065
67 HS 3067
68 HS 3068
69 HS 3070
Bibliography
Glossary
List of Divine Names, Names of Angels, Demons and Exemplary Figures, and Nomina Barbara
List of Clients and Adversaries
List of Biblical Quotations
List of Texts
Index
All those interested in Aramaic or Babylonian Hebrew, as well as those interested in the magic and religion of the Near East in late antiquity, or in Jewish magic in general.