Abstract
IT is clear from the seventy-five plates of cuneiform texts with which Mr. King has furnished his book, that he addresses himself mainly to the little group of cuneiform scholars who in England, America, and Germany are pushing on their science with strenuous endeavours; but those who take the trouble to read his translations of these texts, and his remarks upon the same, will at once see that he is in reality speaking to a much larger audience—namely, to all those who take an interest in the science of the ancient religions of the world, and to those who spend their time in tracing the development of the sister subjects of magic and sorcery from the earliest ages to the present day.
Babylonian Magic and Sorcery.
By L. W. King Pp. xxx + 199. (London: Luzac and Co., 1896.)
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Babylonian Magic and Sorcery. Nature 54, 489–490 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/054489a0
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