An Aramaic Ritual for Burning Straw in Sefire IA:36–37

The Old Aramaic inscription Sefire I (KAI 222) includes, in a series of mimetic curses, a debated clause that has been read by most previous scholars to involve a mysterious {gnbʾ} gannābaʾ(?) ‘thief’, which (or who?) is symbolically burned (Sefire I A:36–37). The present article argues that ther…