Micah’s Mother (Judg. 17:1– 4) and a Curse from Carthage (KAI 89): Canaanite Precedents for Greek and Latin Curses against Thieves?

Faraone et al discuss systematically the intriguing similarity of the two Canaanite texts, the biblical Micah's Mother (Judg. 17:11-4) and the Punic inscription on lead, a curse motivated by the theft or loss of a silver found in a graveyard of the seventh or sixth century BC. They also reexamine the two Canaanite texts in light of the Greek and Latin parallelism, so as to clarify some obscurities and interpretative problems in both, and revisit Sherwood Fox's thesis that the Greek and Roman curses against thieves are ultimately derived from a Canaanite practice.