Deliver Me from Evil: Mesopotamian Incantations 2500-1500 BC

By Graham Cunningham

This study analyses five aspects of the approximately 450 published Mesopotamian Incantations dating to the period from 2500 to 1500 BC: the incantations' development during this periods; their functions and particular type of suffering, illness; the verbal techniques they use to request or represent helpful divine intervention towards those ends; their accompanying ritual; the information they provide about the ultimate cause of such suffering, that is harmful divine intervention.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8876536086
• ISBN13: 9788876536083
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Gregorian & Biblical Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.