TY - JOUR
T1 - On some readings & interpretations in the Aramaic incantation bowls & related texts
AU - Morgenstern, Matthew
AU - Ford, James Nathan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
©SOAS, University of London, 2017.
PY - 2017/6/1
Y1 - 2017/6/1
N2 - This study takes a new look at a number of obscure passages in the Aramaic incantation bowls and related texts discussed in Christa Müller- Kessler's article "More on puzzling words and spellings in Aramaic incantation bowls and related texts", published in BSOAS 75/1, 2012, 1-31. Among the words discussed are 'wild boar', 'wailing', 'overthrower (type of demon)','burning' and 'protectors', all new to the Jewish Babylonian Aramaic lexicon, 'tusk' and 'broken' sounds of the shofar (as a maleficent force)", which show new meanings for previously attested lexemes, and the new plural form 'maidservants'. Additional evidence for the words or expressions 'attack (a type of demon)', 'help', (a divine epithet), (a type of demon), (a hard metal) and 'shofars (a type of demon)' is also adduced and a preliminary edition of the magic bowl Nippur 12 N 387 is presented.
AB - This study takes a new look at a number of obscure passages in the Aramaic incantation bowls and related texts discussed in Christa Müller- Kessler's article "More on puzzling words and spellings in Aramaic incantation bowls and related texts", published in BSOAS 75/1, 2012, 1-31. Among the words discussed are 'wild boar', 'wailing', 'overthrower (type of demon)','burning' and 'protectors', all new to the Jewish Babylonian Aramaic lexicon, 'tusk' and 'broken' sounds of the shofar (as a maleficent force)", which show new meanings for previously attested lexemes, and the new plural form 'maidservants'. Additional evidence for the words or expressions 'attack (a type of demon)', 'help', (a divine epithet), (a type of demon), (a hard metal) and 'shofars (a type of demon)' is also adduced and a preliminary edition of the magic bowl Nippur 12 N 387 is presented.
KW - Aramaic magic bowls
KW - Incantation bowls
KW - Jewish babylonian aramaic
KW - Mandaic
KW - Syriac
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U2 - 10.1017/S0041977X17000465
DO - 10.1017/S0041977X17000465
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AN - SCOPUS:85021728714
SN - 0041-977X
VL - 80
SP - 191
EP - 231
JO - Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
JF - Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
IS - 2
ER -