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    This document provides a bibliography of important works on Mesopotamian magic and ritual incantations. It lists several seminal books on the topic published between 1985-2007 that provide collections of source texts and analyses. It also lists over 20 relevant academic articles published between 1972-2003 in journals like Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Orientalia, and Acta Sumerologica. The bibliography aims to identify some of the most essential resources for both newcomers and experts in the field of Mesopotamian magic studies. However, it notes that acquiring some of these rare and specialized works may still prove difficult.

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    This document provides a bibliography of important works on Mesopotamian magic and ritual incantations. It lists several seminal books on the topic published between 1985-2007 that provide collections of source texts and analyses. It also lists over 20 relevant academic articles published between 1972-2003 in journals like Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Orientalia, and Acta Sumerologica. The bibliography aims to identify some of the most essential resources for both newcomers and experts in the field of Mesopotamian magic studies. However, it notes that acquiring some of these rare and specialized works may still prove difficult.

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    This document provides a bibliography of important works on Mesopotamian magic and ritual incantations. It lists several seminal books on the topic published between 1985-2007 that provide collections of source texts and analyses. It also lists over 20 relevant academic articles published between 1972-2003 in journals like Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Orientalia, and Acta Sumerologica. The bibliography aims to identify some of the most essential resources for both newcomers and experts in the field of Mesopotamian magic studies. However, it notes that acquiring some of these rare and specialized works may still prove difficult.

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    Bibliography of Mesopotamian Magic

    The below bibliography is a list of Assyriological works which apply themselves to the narrow study of
    the Mesopotamian ritual and incantation lore. While some have gone to impressive lengths to list huge
    numbers of relevant materials (see for example the following link
    http://www.orientalisti.net/na_magic.htm), we hope to list below only some of the most essential books
    and articles and some that would prove most effective for newcomer and expert alike. It can be difficult
    especially for the former to come across these titles, and while the below resoure may help here,
    unfortunatly acquireing these rare books afterwards would likely remain a troublesome prospect in
    some cases.

    Books on Mesopotamian Magic


    Deliever me from Evil: Mesopotamian Incantations 2500-1500
    by Graham Cunningham, 1997
    Eisenbrauns
    ISBN: 8876536086
    Religion and Magic: Approaches and Theories
    Graham Cunningham, 1999
    Eisenbrauns
    ISBN: 0-8147-1588-5
    Forerunners to Udug-Hul: Sumerian Exorcistic Incantations
    by M.J. Geller, 1985
    Eisenbrauns
    ISBN: 3-515-04403-5
    Evil Demons: Canonical Utukku- Lemnu-tu Incantations
    M.J. Geller, 2007
    Eisenbrauns
    ISBN: 9521013311
    Ur III Incantations from the Frau Professor Hilprecht Collection-Jena
    by Jan Van Dijk, M. J. Geller, and Joachim Oelsner, 2003
    Eisenbrauns
    ISBN: 3-447-04707-0
    Early Mesopotamian Incantations and Rituals
    by Jan Van Dijk, Albrecht Goetze, and Mary I. Hussey; 1985
    Eisenbrauns
    ISBN: 0-300-03147-5
    Mesopotamian Protective Spirits
    by F.A.M. Wiggermann
    Eisenbrauns
    ISBN: 90-72371-52-6
    Mesopotamian Witchcraft
    by Tzvi Abusch, 2002
    Eisenbrauns

    ISBN: 90-04-12387-3
    Magico-Medical Means of Treating Ghost-Induced Illness in Ancient Mesopotamia
    by Jo Ann Scurlock, 2006
    Eisenbrauns
    ISBN: 90-04-12397-0
    Mesopotamian Magic: Textual, Historical, and Interpretive Perspectives
    by Tzvi Abusch and Karel van der Toorn
    Eisenbrauns
    ISBN: 90-5693-033-8
    Die Beschwrungen aus Fara und Ebla: Untersuchungen zur ltesten keilschriftlichen
    Beschwrungsliteratur
    By Manfred Krebernik, 1984
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    ISBN: 3487074796

    Articles on Mesopotamian Magic


    - "A brief examination of HI-la2 in incantations"
    by N. Veldhuis
    CDLI
    - "Another Early Dynastic Incantation"
    by N. Veldhuis
    CDLI
    - "When you perform the ritual of "rubbing" on medicine and magic in Ancient Mesopotamia"
    by Barbara Bock
    Journal of Near Eastern studies 62
    - "A Neo-Sumerian ritual tablet in Philadelphia"
    By Michael Dick
    Journal of Near Eastern studies 64
    - "Aetiology of illness in ancient Mesopotamia: On Supernatural causes"
    by Erica Couto-Ferreira
    link
    - A Sumerian Incantation Against Gall.
    B. Alster
    Orientalia n.s. 41 (1972) 349-358.
    - Incantation to Utu
    B. Alster
    Acta Sumerologica 13 (1991) 27-96.
    - Necromancy in Ancient Mesopotamia
    I. Finkel
    AfO 29-30 (1983-1984) 1-17
    - "Very Different Utu Incantations"
    M. Geller
    ASJ 17 (1995), 101-126

    - 'Another Old Babylonian Childbirth Incantation.'


    Gertrud Farber
    JNES 43, p311ff
    - 'Mannum Luspur ana Enkidu: some new thoughts about an old motif'
    Walter Farber 1990b
    JNES 49, p299ff
    - 'Gula'
    R. Frankena 1957-71:
    Reallexikon der Assyriologue 3, p695ff
    - 'Ur-Nanshe's Diorite Plaque'
    Thorkild Jacobsen 1985
    - 'Dingir..dib.ba Incantations,
    Lambert W.G 1974:
    JNES 33, p57ff
    - 'An Old Babylonian Charm again Merhu'
    Benno Landsberger and Thorkild Jacobsen 1955,
    JNES 14m p14ff
    -Piotr Michalowski:
    a) 'On some Early Magical Texts', Orientalia 52 p216ff
    b) 1993: 'Torch and the Censor', Cohen et al 1993m p152ff.
    c) 1991 "Incantation Incipits," N.A.B.U. 48.
    d) Also note Michalowski has a 'work in progress' entitled "Ur III Incantations from Nippur"
    -'urpu: A Collection of Sumerian and Akkadian Incantations'
    Erica Reiner 1958:
    (AfO Beih 11), Graz
    - 'Une conjuration sumerienne et ses rapports avec le culte',
    Herbert Sauren 1968
    Geneva NS 16, p109ff.
    - 'On the Bite of a Dog'
    Marcel Sigrist 1987:
    Marks and Good 1987 p85ff.
    - Niek Veldhuis::
    a) 'The Fly, the Worm, and the Chain: Old Babylonian Chain Incantations' Orientalia Lovaniensia
    Periodica 24, p41ff.
    b) Review of "G. Cunningham, "Deliver Me from Evil" Mesopotamian Incantations 2500-1500 BC
    (Studia Pohl Series Maior 17). Rome 1997", in Bibliotheca Orientalis 55, 850-852.
    c) Review of "G. Cunningham, Religion and Magic. Approaches and Theories. Edinburgh 1999" in
    Archiv fr Orientforschung 48/49 (2001/2002), 226-228
    -W . von Soden 1954:
    a) 'Eine albabylonische Beschworungen gegen die Damonin Lamastum', Orientalia 23, p337ff.
    b) 1956: 'Eine altassyrische Beschworungen gegen die Damonin Lamastum', Orientalia 25, p141ff.
    - 'Liebesbeschworungen aus Isin'
    Claus Wilke 1985:

    Zeitschift fur Assyiorlogie 75, p188ff.


    - Topoi and stock-strophes in Sumerian Literary tradition: Some Observations, part I
    A. J. Ferrara 1995:
    JNES 54, 81-117
    -M.J Geller (link):
    a) More Magic Spells and Formulae, BSOAS 60.2 (1997), pp. 327-35 (with 4 plates)
    b) Freud, Magic and Mesopotamia: How the Magic Works, Folklore 108 (1997), pp. 1-7.
    c) 'Mesopotamian Love Magic: Discourse or Intercourse?', CRAAI 47/1 (2003), ed. S. Parpola and R.
    Whiting (Helsinki, 2002), 129-139
    d) A New piece of Witchcraft, in Dumu Edubba, Studies in Honor of A Sjberg, (Philadlephia, 1989),
    193-205.
    -"Magical Uses of Ancient Mesopotamian Festivals of the Dead." Scurlock, J. A.
    In Ancient Magic and Ritual Power. M. Meyer and P. Mirecki, 93-107
    Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, 129. Leiden: Brill, 1995
    - "Rituals at Ebla."
    Vigan Lorenzo
    Journal of Near Eastern Studies 54 (1995) 215-22.

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