Cursed Are You! : The Phenomenology of Cursing in Cuneiform and Hebrew Texts.
Kitz, Anne Marie.
Cursed Are You! : The Phenomenology of Cursing in Cuneiform and Hebrew Texts. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (541 pages)
Intro -- COVER Front -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Recent Scholarly Approaches to Curses -- Chapter 2: Vows, Oaths, and Curses -- Chapter 3: The Types of Curses -- Chapter 4: Conditional Cursing -- Chapter 5: The Effectiveness of Maledictions by the Deities -- Chapter 6: The Productivity of Curses by Human Beings -- Chapter 7: Executioner Deities, Hypostatization, and the Agents of Curses -- Chapter 8: The Purpose of Curses -- Chapter 9: The Process behind Curses -- Chaptter 10: Barriers, Boundaries, and Written Display Curses -- Chapter 11: Of Nets and Arms and Webs of Words Drawing Circles and Twisting Cords -- Chapter 12: Of Nets and Arms and Webs of Words Weapons and Other Images -- Chapter 13: Curse Management -- Chapter 14: Curse Practitioners The Lay Curser -- Chapter 15: Curse Practitioners The Professionals -- Chapter 16: Curse Practitioners Antagonistic Semi-professionals -- Chapter 17: Curse-Acts -- Bibliography -- Index.
No detailed description available for "Cursed Are You!".
9781575068749
Bible.-Old Testament-Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Blessing and cursing-Middle East-History.
Cuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian.
Akkadian language-Semantics.
Hebrew language-Semantics, Historical.
Phenomenology.
Electronic books.
PJ3193.K57 2013eb
133.4/4
Cursed Are You! : The Phenomenology of Cursing in Cuneiform and Hebrew Texts. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (541 pages)
Intro -- COVER Front -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Recent Scholarly Approaches to Curses -- Chapter 2: Vows, Oaths, and Curses -- Chapter 3: The Types of Curses -- Chapter 4: Conditional Cursing -- Chapter 5: The Effectiveness of Maledictions by the Deities -- Chapter 6: The Productivity of Curses by Human Beings -- Chapter 7: Executioner Deities, Hypostatization, and the Agents of Curses -- Chapter 8: The Purpose of Curses -- Chapter 9: The Process behind Curses -- Chaptter 10: Barriers, Boundaries, and Written Display Curses -- Chapter 11: Of Nets and Arms and Webs of Words Drawing Circles and Twisting Cords -- Chapter 12: Of Nets and Arms and Webs of Words Weapons and Other Images -- Chapter 13: Curse Management -- Chapter 14: Curse Practitioners The Lay Curser -- Chapter 15: Curse Practitioners The Professionals -- Chapter 16: Curse Practitioners Antagonistic Semi-professionals -- Chapter 17: Curse-Acts -- Bibliography -- Index.
No detailed description available for "Cursed Are You!".
9781575068749
Bible.-Old Testament-Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Blessing and cursing-Middle East-History.
Cuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian.
Akkadian language-Semantics.
Hebrew language-Semantics, Historical.
Phenomenology.
Electronic books.
PJ3193.K57 2013eb
133.4/4