Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note:-I. Theoretical Perspectives -- Wim van Binsbergen & Frans Wiggermann -- Magic in History. A Theoretical Perspective, and its application to Ancient Mesopotamia 1 -- Niek Veldhuis -- The Poetry of Magic 35 -- Mark J. Geller -- Freud and Mesopotamian Magic 49 -- Marten Stol -- Psychosomatic Suffering in Ancient Mesopotamia 57 -- JoAnn Scurlock -- Physician, Exorcist, Conjurer, Magician: A Tale of Two Healing Professionals 69 -- ---II. Surveys and Studies -- Tzvi Abusch -- Witchcraft and the Anger of the Personal God 81 -- Stefan M. Maul -- How the Babylonians Protected Themselves against Calamities Announced by Omens 123 -- Alasdair Livingstone -- The Magic of Time 131 -- Karel van der Toorn -- Magic at the Cradle: A Reassessment 139 -- Eva A. Braun-Holzinger -- Apotropaic Figures at Mesopotamian Temples in the Third and Second Millennia 149 -- Shaul Shaked -- The Poetics of Spells. Language and Structure in Aramaic Incantations of Late Antiquity 173 -- Christa Miiller-Kessler -- Interrelations between Mandaic Lead Scrolls and Incantation Bowls 197 -- Irving L. Finkel -- On Some Dog, Snake and Scorpion Incantations 211 -- Antoine Cavigneaux -- A Scholar's Library in Meturan? 253 -- William W Hallo -- More Incantations and Rituals from the Yale Babylonian Collection 277 -- Wilfred G. Lambert -- Marduk's Address to the Demons 293.