Corpus of the Aramaic Incantation Bowls

Since the 1913 publication of James A. Montgomerys Aramaic Incantation Texts from Nippur students of the bowls have used that book as the diving platform from which they enter a deep pool of study In the intervening years the body of work on incantation (or magic) bowls has continued to grow. Bowls in several ancient languages have attracted the attention of scholars from a variety of countries and traditions. The result has been the publication of a considerable number of translations of additional texts and fragments. Focusing only on those bowls inscribed in Aramaic and even then only on the seventy-two extant bowls which could be personally read in photographs or facsimiles Charles Isbell has in Corpus of the Aramaic Incantation Bowls compiled an impressive volume of work. Including the complete original texts full translations and annotations Isbell supplements the text with a glossary of all inscribed words an index of personal names and a list of quotations from scripture.