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UNINA9910791189203321 |
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Moriggi Marco |
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A corpus of Syriac incantation bowls : Syriac magical texts from late-Antique Mesopotamia / / by Marco Moriggi |
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Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014 |
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1 online resource (296 p.) |
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Magical and Religious Literature of Late Antiquity, , 2211-016X ; ; Volume 3 |
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Inscriptions, Syriac - Iraq |
Incantation bowls - Iraq |
Incantations - Iraq |
Syriac language - Iraq |
Paleography - Iraq |
Iraq Antiquities |
Iraq Religious life and customs Sources |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front Matter -- Introduction -- Palaeography -- Texts -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Lists -- Index -- Script Charts. |
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The Aramaic incantation bowls from Sasanian Mesopotamia are the most important source we have for studying the everyday beliefs of the Jewish, Christian, Mandaean, Manichaean, Zoroastrian and Pagan communities on the eve of the Islamic conquests. In A Corpus of Syriac Incantation Bowls , Marco Moriggi presents new editions of forty-nine Syriac incantation bowls that were originally published between 1853 and 2012, with accompanying introductions, translations, philological notes, photographs and glossaries. Furthermore, there is a detailed analysis of the Estrangela and Manichaean scripts as used on the bowls, together with newly drawn script charts. In gathering, organising and updating most of the published Syriac bowls, this book provides a valuable resource for further research into both their language and content. \'This volume is a significant contribution to the study of the |
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Syriac incantation bowls, and it should be of great interest to scholars of ‘magic’ in Late Antiquity as well as to those working in Syriac language, literature, and history, since the Syriac incantation bowls are a fascinating—yet often neglected—component of the broader Syriac heritage.\' - Aaron M. Butts , The Catholic University of America - Washington D.C., JNES (October 2015) . \'Moriggi’s new book will no doubt become an essential reference work for all interested in Syriac magical texts from late-antiquity. It is also an important contribution not only to our knowledge of the language of the Syriac incantation bowls, but to the whole field of Babylonian Aramaic (JBA and Mandaic).\' - Ohad Abudraham , Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Beer Sheva, Israel, Orientalia (2015) . \'The volume certainly makes an enormous contribution to furthering studies on Syriac incantation texts, and more generally on incantation bowls. For any scholar who has an interest in incantation bowls, this work is a ‘mustʼ\' - Erica C. D. Hunter , SOAS University of London, Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 113.1 (2018) . |
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UNINA9910155035403321 |
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Autore |
Lessem Ronnie |
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Community activation for integral development / / Ronnie Lessem |
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London : , : Routledge, , 2017 |
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1-315-22873-4 |
1-351-85701-0 |
1-351-85700-2 |
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[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (157 pages) : illustrations, tables |
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Transformation and Innovation |
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pt. I. Southern grounding of community : livelihood, healing, truth quest -- pt. II. Eastern emergence of community : permaculture, vitality of place, disclose new worlds -- pt. III. Northern communal navigation : participatory action research, study circles, networks -- pt. IV. Western |
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communal effect : build community, self-sufficiency, mutual development. |
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As mass global and social media communications spread across the globe, we are seeing a need for a change in the way we approach issues of political and economic development. The effects of these growing communications are that, on the one hand, we see the significance of place rising, while on the other, marginalized people clamour to be heard and identities become increasingly threatened. We are quickly realizing that a 'one-size fits all' approach is not going to work. Despite more than half a century of attempts to address issues of development, we have seen fairly bleak results. In fact, the rising of economic stars, such as Japan and the Pacific Tigers hitherto, and China and India of late, have little to do with such programs of development or cultural studies, notwithstanding their accomplishment. Typically, such successes have developed top-down, with theories born and bred in the 'West' affecting,or maligning, practices in the 'rest'. The approach taken in this book looks at these developments by turning them on their head: instead, starting bottom-up with an emphasis on what the author terms 'community activation'. With a selection of case studies, this volume looks at where community activation can be found and explores how it could evolve and be of use in developing societies at large. In the process, he addresses such topics as how to embed development in a particular society, how to generate social and economic solidarity, and how to generate wealth from pre-industrial and post-industrial networks. This book provides a guide for readers on how to build community within their organization-and-society from the ground up. |
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