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Jewish Aramaic curse texts from late-antique Mesopotamia : may these curses go out and flee
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ISBN: 9004257268 9781299829954 1299829953 9789004257269 9789004250925 9004250921 Year: 2013 Publisher: Brill

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The corpus of Aramaic incantation bowls from Sasanian Mesopotamia is perhaps the most important source we have for studying the everyday beliefs and practices of the Jewish, Christian, Mandaean, Manichaean, Zoroastrian and Pagan communities on the eve of the Islamic conquests. In Jewish Aramaic Curse Texts from Late-Antique Mesopotamia , Dan Levene collects and analyses a selection of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic incantation bowls. While such texts are usually apotropaic or healing in purpose, those collected here are distinctive in that their purpose was to curse or return curses against human adversaries. This book presents new editions of thirty texts, of which fourteen are edited here for the first time, with an introduction, commentary, analysis and glossaries, as well as photographs. “In this valuable addition to the literature on the role of bowls with aggressive texts in magic practices in this period, Levene (Jewish history and culture, U. of Southampton, UK) presents a summary of newly edited and already published bowls with Aramaic transcription; English translation; its type (e.g., invocation of demons to attack a named person, counter-charm); publication source; formulaic parallels in other texts; and notes.' Reference andamp; Research Book News, 2013.


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Roomscape : women writers in the British Museum from George Eliot to Virginia Woolf
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ISBN: 9780748681617 0748681612 9781299483866 1299483860 0748681620 9780748681624 9780748640652 0748640657 0748681639 0748697942 0748684360 9780748684366 0748684360 Year: 2014 Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,

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Drawing on archival materials around this national library reading room, Roomscape is the first study that integrates documentary, theoretical, historical, and literary sources to examine the significance of this public interior space for women writers and their treatment of reading and writing spaces in literary texts. This book challenges an assessment of the Reading Room of the British Museum as a bastion of class and gender privilege, an image firmly established by Virginia Woolf's 1929 A Room of One's Own and the legions of feminist scholarship that uphold this spatial conceit. Susan David Bernstein argues not only that the British Museum Reading Room facilitated various practices of women's literary traditions, she also questions the overdetermined value of privacy and autonomy in constructions of female authorship, a principle generated from Woolf's feminist manifesto. Rather than viewing reading and writing as solitary, individual events, Roomscape considers the meaning of exteriority and the public and social and gendered dimensions of literary production.

A history of the British Museum library, 1753-1973
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ISBN: 0712345620 9780712345620 Year: 1998 Publisher: London: British library,

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A Critical Edition of the Private Diaries of Robert Proctor : The Life of a Librarian at the British Museum
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ISBN: 0773429948 9780773429949 9780773436343 0773436340 Year: 2010 Publisher: Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press,

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Robert Proctor will always be remembered among bibliographers for two things: for his rearrange¬ment of the incunabula in the British Museum in what has become known as 'Proctor order', based on the way in which printing spread in its early days; and for the mystery which continues to surround his death. Born in 1868, he was appointed to the British Museum in 1891, and in 1898 he published his Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum. In 1899 he started to keep a private diary, and this lasted until his death in 1903. One of the volumes is missing, but the remaining three are edited and published for the first time here.

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