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Babylonian resources?

psithyros

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I hope im posting in the right section but does anyone have reccs for babylonian (or sumerian/assyrian/akkadian/canaanite/etc just that whole region across time!!) resources concerning the ancient religion & its divinatory practices? Preferably academic obvsly im rlly interested in their astrology as well

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Hello! I have been searching for this myself. Here is a huge list I found in a Mesopotamian neopolytheism discord. Hopefully it gives you some places to start!

Books/Sources
"Wisdom from the late bronze age" by Yoram Cohen
"Born in heaven made on earth: the making of the cult image in the ancient near east" by Michael B. Dick
"Before the muses: An anthology of Akkadian literature" volume 1 and 2 (two books) by Benjamin R. Foster
"Goddesses in Context: On Divine Powers, Roles, Relationships and Gender in Mesopotamian Textual and Visual Sources"
"House Most High: The Temples of Ancient Mesopotamia" by A. R. George
"Family religion in Babylonia, Syria and Israel: Continuity and Change in the Forms of Religious Life" by Karel Van Der Toorn
"The Family God in Old Babylonian and Especially in Old Assyrian Sources" by Klaas R. Veenhof
"the cultic calendars of the ancient near east" by Mark E. Cohen
"The World of the Sumerian Mother Goddess: An Interpretation of Her Myths" by Therese Rodin
"Ancient Near eastern Gods Enki and Ea: Diachronical analysis of texts and images from the earliest sources to the neo-sumerian period" by Master's Thesis
"The Moon God Sîn in Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian times" by Aino Hätinen
"Mesopotamian incantations and related texts in the schøyen collection" by A. R. George
"Healing in Images and Texts: The Sickbed Scene" by Strahil V. Panayotov
"Remarks on Mesopotamian Divine Epithets and Their Use in Incantations and Incantation-Prayers" by Manuel Ceccarelli
"They are Seven: Demons and Monsters in the Mesopotamian Textual and Artistic Tradition" by Gina V. Konstantopoulos
“Their Divinity is Different, Their Nature is Distinct! Nature, Origin, and Features of Demons in Akkadian Literature" by Lorenzo Verderame "Counterintuitive Demons: Pazuzu and Lamaštu in Iconography, Text, and Cognition" by Brett Maiden
"The history of the cult of the sky-God Anu in Uruk: philological and archaeological evidence" by Claus Ambos
"Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia: An Illustrated Dictionary Jeremy Black and Anthony Green Illustrations" by Tessa Rickards "Purity and the Forming of Religious Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean World and Ancient Judaism" Edited by Christian Frevel and Christophe Nihan
"birth in Babylon and the bible" by Stol Marten, Wiggermann F. A. M.
"Babylonian Wisdom Literature" by W. G. Lambert
"mesopotamian protective spirits: the ritual texts" by F. A. M. Wiggermann
"Women of Babylon: Gender and representation in mesopotamia" by Zainab Bahrani
"Women in the ancient Near east" by Gruyter and translated by Helen and Mervyn Richardson.
"Inheritance Law of and through Women in the Middle Assyrian Period" Sophie Démare-Lafont École Pratique des Hautes Études "Women in Neo-Assyrian Temples" Saana Svärd, Helsinki
"Daily life in ancient mesopotamia" Karen Rhea Nemet-Nejat
"Assyria: the rise and fall of the world's first Empire" by Eckart Frahm
"Religion, literature, and scholarship: the sumerian composition Nanshe and the birds, with a catalogue of Sumerian bird names" by Niek Veldhuis
"The God Ninurta In the Mythology and Royal Ideology of Ancient Mesopotamia" by Amar Annus
"The Revival of the Anu Cult and the Nocturnal Fire Ceremony at Late Babylonian Uruk" by Julia Krul
"Crafting Purity in Assyro-Babylonian Procedures. Time, Space, and the Material World. La elaboración de la pureza en los procedimientos asiro-babilónicos. El tiempo, el espacio y el mundo material" by Noemi Borrelli and Eduardo A. Escobar
"Morality and the Minds of Gods" by T. M. Oshima

Websites
Oracc Museum
ETCSL
CDLI
Ebl (Electronic Babylonian literature)
Archibab Reallexikon der assyriologie
British Museum
 

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Hello! I have been searching for this myself. Here is a huge list I found in a Mesopotamian neopolytheism discord. Hopefully it gives you some places to start!

Books/Sources
"Wisdom from the late bronze age" by Yoram Cohen
"Born in heaven made on earth: the making of the cult image in the ancient near east" by Michael B. Dick
"Before the muses: An anthology of Akkadian literature" volume 1 and 2 (two books) by Benjamin R. Foster
"Goddesses in Context: On Divine Powers, Roles, Relationships and Gender in Mesopotamian Textual and Visual Sources"
"House Most High: The Temples of Ancient Mesopotamia" by A. R. George
"Family religion in Babylonia, Syria and Israel: Continuity and Change in the Forms of Religious Life" by Karel Van Der Toorn
"The Family God in Old Babylonian and Especially in Old Assyrian Sources" by Klaas R. Veenhof
"the cultic calendars of the ancient near east" by Mark E. Cohen
"The World of the Sumerian Mother Goddess: An Interpretation of Her Myths" by Therese Rodin
"Ancient Near eastern Gods Enki and Ea: Diachronical analysis of texts and images from the earliest sources to the neo-sumerian period" by Master's Thesis
"The Moon God Sîn in Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian times" by Aino Hätinen
"Mesopotamian incantations and related texts in the schøyen collection" by A. R. George
"Healing in Images and Texts: The Sickbed Scene" by Strahil V. Panayotov
"Remarks on Mesopotamian Divine Epithets and Their Use in Incantations and Incantation-Prayers" by Manuel Ceccarelli
"They are Seven: Demons and Monsters in the Mesopotamian Textual and Artistic Tradition" by Gina V. Konstantopoulos
“Their Divinity is Different, Their Nature is Distinct! Nature, Origin, and Features of Demons in Akkadian Literature" by Lorenzo Verderame "Counterintuitive Demons: Pazuzu and Lamaštu in Iconography, Text, and Cognition" by Brett Maiden
"The history of the cult of the sky-God Anu in Uruk: philological and archaeological evidence" by Claus Ambos
"Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia: An Illustrated Dictionary Jeremy Black and Anthony Green Illustrations" by Tessa Rickards "Purity and the Forming of Religious Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean World and Ancient Judaism" Edited by Christian Frevel and Christophe Nihan
"birth in Babylon and the bible" by Stol Marten, Wiggermann F. A. M.
"Babylonian Wisdom Literature" by W. G. Lambert
"mesopotamian protective spirits: the ritual texts" by F. A. M. Wiggermann
"Women of Babylon: Gender and representation in mesopotamia" by Zainab Bahrani
"Women in the ancient Near east" by Gruyter and translated by Helen and Mervyn Richardson.
"Inheritance Law of and through Women in the Middle Assyrian Period" Sophie Démare-Lafont École Pratique des Hautes Études "Women in Neo-Assyrian Temples" Saana Svärd, Helsinki
"Daily life in ancient mesopotamia" Karen Rhea Nemet-Nejat
"Assyria: the rise and fall of the world's first Empire" by Eckart Frahm
"Religion, literature, and scholarship: the sumerian composition Nanshe and the birds, with a catalogue of Sumerian bird names" by Niek Veldhuis
"The God Ninurta In the Mythology and Royal Ideology of Ancient Mesopotamia" by Amar Annus
"The Revival of the Anu Cult and the Nocturnal Fire Ceremony at Late Babylonian Uruk" by Julia Krul
"Crafting Purity in Assyro-Babylonian Procedures. Time, Space, and the Material World. La elaboración de la pureza en los procedimientos asiro-babilónicos. El tiempo, el espacio y el mundo material" by Noemi Borrelli and Eduardo A. Escobar
"Morality and the Minds of Gods" by T. M. Oshima

Websites
Oracc Museum
ETCSL
CDLI
Ebl (Electronic Babylonian literature)
Archibab Reallexikon der assyriologie
British Museum
Thank you so much!! Im currently looking for a pdf of "BABYLONIAN STAR-LORE an Illustrated Guide to the Star-lore and Constellations of Ancient Babylonia by Gavin White" which I was able to find on this topic but its eluded me so far
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