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Cursed Are You! : The Phenomenology of Cursing in Cuneiform and Hebrew Texts.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: University Park, PA : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (541 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781575068749
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Cursed Are You!DDC classification:
  • 133.4/4
LOC classification:
  • PJ3193.K57 2013eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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