{"title":"Magical Obstetrics: Anubis, Bird Blood, and a Black Shrew","authors":"Andrea L. Winkler","doi":"10.1086/718783","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"If not explained, magical writings can be obscure to a modern audience. Often, however, the reader of a grimoire is informed about the purpose of a specific incantation by an explanatory caption. This is a common feature in Demotic magical papyri and numerous Coptic and Greek works of a similar kind.1 One such case is the Demotic O.Stras.Dem. 1338,2 which is introduced by a heading clarifying the intent of the invocation of various deities mentioned in the text.3 Individual applications of spells, as can be found for example on","PeriodicalId":45745,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES","volume":"81 1","pages":"53 - 70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6000,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1086/718783","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"ARCHAEOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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If not explained, magical writings can be obscure to a modern audience. Often, however, the reader of a grimoire is informed about the purpose of a specific incantation by an explanatory caption. This is a common feature in Demotic magical papyri and numerous Coptic and Greek works of a similar kind.1 One such case is the Demotic O.Stras.Dem. 1338,2 which is introduced by a heading clarifying the intent of the invocation of various deities mentioned in the text.3 Individual applications of spells, as can be found for example on
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Devoted to an examination of the civilizations of the Near East, the Journal of Near Eastern Studies has for 125 years published contributions from scholars of international reputation on the archaeology, art, history, languages, literatures, and religions of the Near East. Founded in 1884 as Hebraica, the journal was renamed twice over the course of the following century, each name change reflecting the growth and expansion of the fields covered by the publication. In 1895 it became the American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, and in 1942 it received its present designation, the Journal of Near Eastern Studies. From an original emphasis on Old Testament studies in the nineteenth century.
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