Beware the Evil Eye Volume 1

The Evil Eye in the Bible and the Ancient World—Introduction, Mesopotamia, and Egypt

Elliott

• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Year: 2015
• eBook ISBN: 9781498273657
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Religion

In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus of Nazareth makes reference to one of the oldest beliefs in the ancient world--the malignity of an Evil Eye. The Holy Scriptures in their original languages contain no less than twenty-four references to the Evil Eye, although this is obscured by most modern Bible translations. John H. Elliott's Beware the Evil Eye describes this belief and associated practices, its history, its voluminous appearances in ancient cultures, and the extensive research devoted to it over the centuries in order to unravel this enigma for readers who have never heard of the Evil Eye and its presence in the Bible.

Abbreviations for Chapter 1: Introduction

ABD - The Anchor Bible Dictionary. 6 vols. Edited by David Noel Freedman. New York: Doubleday, 1992

ET - English translation

HWDA - Handwörterbuch des deutschen Aberglaubens. 10 vols. Edited by H. Bächtold-Stäubli and E. Hoffmann-Krayer. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1927–1942; Reprinted, 1987

HERE - Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics. 13 vols. Edited by James Hasting, James, et al. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1908–1927. 4th ed. Reprinted, 1958

IDB - Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible. 4 vols. Edited by G. W. Buttrick. Nashville: Abingdon, 1962

JSNTSup - Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplements

LCL - Loeb Classical Library

RAC - Reallexikon für Antike und Christentum. Sachwörterbuch zur Auseinandersetzung des Christentums mit der antiken Welt. 25+ vols. Edited by Theodore Klauser et al. Stuttgart: Hiersemann, 1950–

REB - Revue des études Byzantines, successor of Échos d’Orient. Paris, 1897–1942

Abbreviations for Chapter 2: Mesopotamia and Egypt

A. ANCIENT PRIMARY SOURCES

Mesopotamian and Ugaritic Sources

ALASP(M) - Abhandlungen zur Literatur Alt-Syrien-Palästinas (und Mesopotamiens)

ArOr - Archiv Orientálni

AO - Antiquités orientales. Tablets in the collection of the Louvre Museum, Paris

BAM - Die babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen. Edited by Franz Köcher. 6 vols. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1963–1980

BL - Babylonian Liturgies. Edited by Stephen H. Langdon. Paris: Geuthner, 1913

BM - Tablets, Objects of the British Museum

CAT - Canaanite in the Amarna Tablets. Edited by A. F. Rainey. Handbuch der Orientalistik I 25,1–4, Leiden: Brill, 1996

CT - Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum. 58 Volumes.

IM - Museum siglum of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad

KTU - Die keil-alphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit. Edited by M. Dietrich, O. Loretz and J. Sanmartín. AOAT 24.1. Neukirchen- - Vluyn: Neukirchener, 1976

KTU2 - Die keil-alphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit. Edited by M. Dietrich, O. Loretz and J. Sanmartín. 2nd ed. ALASP(M) 8. Munster: Ugarit-Verlag, 1995

MDP - Mémoires de la Délégation en Perse. Paris 1900–

PT - Pyramid Text

RS - Ras Shamra. Museum siglum of the Louvre and Damascus Museums

SEL - Studi Epigrafici e Linguistici sul Vicino Oriente Antico. Verona: Essedue, 1984–

STT - The Sultantepe Tablets. Volume 1. Edited by O. R. Gurney and J. J. Finkelstein. Occasional Publications of the BritishInstitute of Archaeology at Ankara no. 3. London: British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, 1957

- The Sultantepe Tablets. Volume 2. Edited by O. R. Gurney and P. Hulin. Occasional Publications of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara no. 7. London: British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, 1964

TCL - Textes Cunéiforms, Musées du Louvre. Paris 1910–

UDB - Ugaritic ...

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Illustrations
• Preface
• Acknowlegments
• Abbreviations for Chapter 1: Introduction
• Abbreviations for Chapter 2: Mesopotamia and Egypt
• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Mesopotamia and Egypt
• Bibliography for Chapter 1: Introduction
• Bibliography for Chapter 2: Mesopotamia and Egypt