Tzvi Abusch is an Assyriologist specializing in Mesopotamian magic and religion, and this Brill critical edition is his modern scholarly edition of Maqlu, the ancient Mesopotamian anti-witchcraft incantation series, superseding the earlier 1937 edition by Meier. Its strength is direct engagement with the cuneiform tablets themselves and with the substantial body of Assyriological scholarship on the series accumulated since Meier's edition, producing a more accurate and complete text than was previously available. Its limit is that, like any critical edition of a fragmentary ancient corpus, portions of the text remain damaged or debated, and Abusch's own scholarly apparatus is the place to check which specific readings are secure and which are reconstructed, rather than treating the translated text as uniformly certain.
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AuthorTzvi Abusch
PublisherBrill, Leiden
Publication Year2016
URLhttps://brill.com/display/title/24515
Source TypeCritical edition
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Reliability Tier1
Published by Brill as Tzvi Abusch's scholarly critical edition of the Maqlu ritual text, peer reviewed university-level Assyriology. NotesIn copyright. The modern critical edition of the anti-witchcraft series, superseding Meier 1937.
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This source names Mesopotamians directly: "Tzvi Abusch is an Assyriologist specializing in Mesopotamian magic and religion, and this Brill critical edition is his modern scholarly edition of Maqlu, the ancient Mesopotamian anti-witchcraft..."
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This source backs 37 claims across the atlas. As facts: 32 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 2 holds. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Rituals, 14 claims: 12 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Incantations, Spells & Curses, 10 claims: 8 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 1 general references.
- Sources, 9 claims: 8 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Articles, 4 claims: 4 well-attested.
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32Incantations, Spells & Curses
Scholarly debate
1Incantations, Spells & Curses
General References
2Incantations, Spells & Curses
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