Aramaic Bowl Spells, Jewish Babylonian Aramaic Bowls, Volume One, by Shaul Shaked, James Nathan Ford and Siam Bhayro, published by the academic press Brill in Leiden in 2013, is the modern critical scholarly edition of a body of incantation bowls and is the volume around which the field's own debate over unprovenanced antiquities has been conducted, since many of the bowls it publishes lack documented excavation records. Its authority rests on the editors' specialist expertise and standard rigorous academic peer review at a leading press for ancient Near Eastern studies. Its limit, stated candidly by the field itself rather than hidden by this description, is the provenance problem: readings from an object with no excavation record carry a different, weaker evidentiary standing than one recovered under controlled archaeological conditions, whatever the editors' own philological skill.
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Aramaic Bowl Spells, Jewish Babylonian Aramaic Bowls, Volume One, by Shaul Shaked, James Nathan Ford and Siam Bhayro, published by Brill in 2013, the top tier reflecting the editors' specialist expertise and rigorous academic peer review at a leading press, notwithstanding the field's own candidly stated provenance problem, that many of the bowls it publishes lack documented excavation records, which gives their readings a weaker evidentiary standing than one recovered under controlled conditions. NotesIn copyright. The modern edition, and the volume around which the unprovenanced-collection debate has been conducted.
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AuthorShaul Shaked, James Nathan Ford and Siam Bhayro
PublisherBrill, Leiden
Publication Year2013
Source TypeCritical edition
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- Sources, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Incantations, Spells & Curses, 5 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 1 general references.
- Articles, 1 claims: 1 well-attested.
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