Syriac Love Charms. Part I: The Recipe-TypeScriniumSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/SS9MG7AN/tei
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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.AnnaCherkashinaAlexeiLyavdanskySyriac Love Charms. Part I: The Recipe-Typehttp://syriaca.org/cbss/SS9MG7ANhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/SS9MG7ANhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/SS9MG7ANScrinium17202168-91In this paper we consider 6 Syriac love charms and edit their original text and translation. All but two texts are published here for the first time. This is the first part of our inquiry, in which we consider one of the two types of Syriac love charms, the recipe-type. Among its primary characteristics is its extreme rarity in Syriac magic codices. Another prominent trait of this type, which makes these texts especially valuable, is that some of them contain ritual instructions which are exceedingly rare for Syriac charms as a whole, while others may contain what we call an allusion to it. Our assumption is that texts of this type reflect ancient magic practices originating in pre-Christian time, which are credibly attested in the texts belonging to other magic traditions of the Near East and Egypt.
Cherkashina, Anna, and Alexei Lyavdansky. “Syriac Love Charms. Part I: The Recipe-Type.” Scrinium 17 (2021): 68–91.
Anna Cherkashina and Alexei Lyavdansky, Syriac Love Charms. Part I: The Recipe-Type,Scrinium 17 (2021): 68–91.NestoriansVII-XVIII CEXIX CEXIX-XXI CEXVIII CEamuletslovemagicpopular religionprimary sources [Syriac] + English translation