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Tribal specialists in ritual were required to perform incantations to accompany the use of texts known, for example, from Ugarit which are attested to contain ways to aid in the removal of snake-venom. Ugarit is also known to have contained additional health-related incantation texts.
177:. The kings had inscribed prayers made onto cylinders made of clay and kept within buildings, in order to fulfill this function. Prayers of this type tended to not be for reason of the seeking of mercy and salvation as is found in 57:
posit an alternative use for the term, which they submit is instead with reference to the way in which a prayer is to be recited, not a general signifier (rubric) for prayer itself (a notion expressed by
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According to one source (Bromiley) the form of the word, known and used to signify prayers during the Mesopotamian era, is described today as šu-il-lá. With regards to šu-il-lá, the scholars
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Mesopotamian Ritual-prayers of "Hand-lifting" (Akkadian šuillas): An Investigation of Function in Light of the Idiomatic Meaning of the Rubric
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Divination in Ancient Israel and its Near Eastern Environment: A Socio-Historical Investigation (footnote 5 - page 197)
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By study of the prayers, it seems apparent to scholars, that these types of prayers seem to be reformations of earlier
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Perspectives on Biblical Hebrew: Comprising the Contents of Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, Volumes 1-4
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Old Babylonian Letter of Petition and Later Individual Lament Prayers
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The rulers' (Kings of Babylonia) prayers were made to a variety of
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is a modern German word. It can be literally translated into both
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Volume 1 of Gorgias Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures Series
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made, for example, in a similar vein to prayers such as the
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These prayers were performed for the purposes of divining.
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Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-witchcraft Rituals: Volume One
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: A-D (p.400)
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Prayers of this classification were performed during
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Religions of the Ancient World: A Guide (p.459-460)
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Index

prayers
ancient Mesopotamia
classifications
Incantation
Gottesbriefe
Ikribus
Hymns
deities
Marduk
Nabû
Ŝamaš
topos
complaints
grief
sorrow
namburbi rituals
omen
fate
evil
witchcraft
Mesopotamian divination
Ancient Mesopotamian religion



Babylonian Prayers to Marduk
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978-3-16-150831-8

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