{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/61c869811c6a7900119a34ed/635d654f176c6c00122e964c?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Demons in Ancient Mesopotamia","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/61c869811c6a7900119a34ed/1667065155869-8104938e56de335e24b3962afcd6d054.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>We continue this year's Shocktober with an exploration of demons and exorcism in Ancient Mesopotamia.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Sources/Recomended Reading:</p><ul><li>Abusch, I. Tzvi (2020). \"Babylonian witchcraft literature: case studies\". Brown Judaic Studies. Scholars Press, Atlanta, Georgia.</li><li>Abusch, I. Tzvi (2020). \"Mesopotamian Religion\". In Essays on Babylonian and Biblical Literature and Religion, Vol. 65: 5-23. Brill.</li><li>Abusch, Tzvi &amp; Daniel Schwemer (ed.) (2011). \"Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals\". Brill.</li><li>Bottéro, Jean (2004). \"Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia\". Translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan. University of Chicago Press.</li><li>Johnston, Sarah Iles (ed.) (2004). \"Religions of the Ancient World: a guide\". The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.</li><li>Konstantopoulos, Gina (2020). \"Demons and exorcism in ancient Mesopotamia\". Article. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences,</li><li>University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan.</li><li>Kotansky, Roy D. (2019). \"Textual Amulets and Writing Traditions in the Ancient World\". In \"Guide to the Study of Ancient Magic\" (edited by David Frankfurter). Brill.</li><li>Van Buylaere, Greta; Mikko Luukko; Daniel Schwemer &amp; Avigail Mertens-Wagschal (2018). \"Sources of Evil: Studies in Mesopotamian Exorcistic Lore\". Brill.</li><li>Van De Mieroop, Marc (2015). A History of the Ancient Near East, ca. 3000-323 BC. Wiley-Blackwell.</li></ul><p><br></p><p>#mesopotamia #demons #ghost</p>","author_name":"Filip Holm"}