LEADER 05641oam 22009254a 450 001 9910464796703321 005 20211004152556.0 010 $a1-57506-874-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9781575068749 035 $a(CKB)3710000000083323 035 $a(EBL)3155696 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001084353 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12503352 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001084353 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11035407 035 $a(PQKB)10896829 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3155696 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3155696 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10827234 035 $a(OCoLC)922991821 035 $a(DE-B1597)584007 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781575068749 035 $a(OCoLC)1273306562 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_78797 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000083323 100 $a20140320h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCursed Are You!$eThe Phenomenology of Cursing in Cuneiform and Hebrew Texts /$fAnne Marie Kitz 210 1$aWinona Lake :$cEisenbrauns,$dop. 2014. 210 4$d©op. 2014. 215 $a1 online resource (524 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-57506-271-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Chronology Of Languages""; ""Introduction: Curse in the Ancient Near East""; ""Recent Scholarly Approaches to Curses""; ""Vows, Oaths, and Curses""; ""The Types of Curses""; ""Conditional Cursing""; ""The Effectiveness of Maledictions by the Deities""; ""The Productivity of Curses by Human Beings""; ""Executioner Deities, Hypostatization, and the Agents of Curses""; ""The Purpose of Curses""; ""The Process behind Curses""; ""Barriers, Boundaries and Written Display Curses""; ""Of Nets and Arms and Webs of Words"" 327 $a""Of Nets and Arms and Webs of Words""""Curse Management""; ""Curse Practitioners: The Lay Curser""; ""Curse Practitioners: The Professionals""; ""Curse Practitioners: Antagonistic Semi-Professionals""; ""Curse-Acts""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index of Authors""; ""Index of Scripture"" 330 $aThis is a book about curses. It is not about curses as insults or offensive language but curses as petitions to the divine world to render judgment and execute harm on identified, hostile forces.In the ancient world, curses functioned in a way markedly different from our own, and it is into the world of the ancient Near East that we must go in order to appreciate the scope of their influence. For the ancient Near Easterners, curses had authentic meaning. Curses were part of their life and religion. They were not inherently magic or features of superstitions, nor were they mere curiosities or trifling antidotes. They were real and effective. They were employed proactively and reactively to manage life?s many vicissitudes and maintain social harmony. They were principally protective, but they were also the cause of misfortune, illness, depression, and anything else that undermined a comfortable, well-balanced life. Every member of society used them, from slave to king, from young to old, from men and women to the deities themselves. They crossed cultural lines and required little or no explanation, for curses were the source of great evil. In other words, curses were universal.Because curses were woven into the very fabric of every known ancient Near Eastern society, they emerge frequently and in a wide variety of venues. They appear on public and private display objects, on tomb stelae, tomb lintels, and sarcophagi, on ancient kudurrus and narūs. They are used in political, administrative, social, religious, and familial contexts. They are the subject of incantations. They are tools that exorcise demons and dispel disease; they ban, protect, and heal.This is the phenomenology of cursing in the ancient Near East, and this is what the present work explores. 606 $aReligion assyro-babylonienne$2rero 606 $aBenediction et malediction$2rero 606 $aIncantations$2rero 606 $aPhenomenologie$2ram 606 $aBenediction et malediction$xNarration dans la Bible$2ram 606 $aPhenomenology$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01060522 606 $aCuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00885196 606 $aBlessing and cursing$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00834275 606 $aPhenomenology 606 $aHebrew language$xSematics, Historical 606 $aAkkadian language$xSemantics 606 $aCuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian 606 $aBlessing and cursing$zMiddle East$xHistory 607 $aMesopotamie$2rero 607 $aMiddle East$2fast 608 $aHistory. 608 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc. 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aReligion assyro-babylonienne. 615 0$aBenediction et malediction. 615 0$aIncantations. 615 0$aPhenomenologie. 615 0$aBenediction et malediction$xNarration dans la Bible. 615 0$aPhenomenology. 615 0$aCuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian. 615 0$aBlessing and cursing. 615 0$aPhenomenology. 615 0$aHebrew language$xSematics, Historical. 615 0$aAkkadian language$xSemantics. 615 0$aCuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian. 615 0$aBlessing and cursing$xHistory. 676 $a133.4/4 700 $aKitz$b Anne Marie$01027480 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910464796703321 996 $aCursed are you$92442954 997 $aUNINA