Since the 1913 publication of James A. Montgomery's <i>Aramaic Incantation Texts from Nippur,</i> students of the bowls have used that book as the diving platform from which they enter a deep pool of study,<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> 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 <i>Corpus of the Aramaic Incantation Bowls</i>, compiled an impressive volume of work. <br> <br> 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.