Officina magica : essays on the practice of magic in antiquity /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2005.
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| Series: | IJS studies in Judaica,
v. 4 |
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=173900 |
Table of Contents:
- Form and purpose in Aramaic spells: some Jewish themes (the poetics of magic texts) / Shaul Shaked
- Incantations in southern Mesopotamia
- from clay tablets to magical bowls (thoughts on the decline of the Babylonian culture) / Joachim Oelsner
- Tablets and magical bowls / Markham J. Geller
- Lunar and snake omens among the Zoroastrians / Antonio Panaino
- What is a magical text? Methodological reflections aimed at redefining early Jewish magic / Yuval Harari
- Drawing and writing: a fourth-century magical spell from Oxyrhynchus / Hagit Amirav
- (Re)interpreting magical gems, ancient and modern / Simone Michel
- Jewish mysticism in the Geonic period: the prayer of Rav Hamnuna Sava / Klaus Herrmann
- Some observations on the diffusion of Jewish magical texts from late antiquity and the early middle ages in manuscripts from the Cairo Genizah and Ashkenaz / Reimund Leicht
- Understanding ritual in Jewish magic: perspectives from the Genizah and related sources / Michael D. Swartz
- "Watermarks" in the MS Munich, Hebr. 95: magical recipes in historical context / Giuseppe Veltri
- The unwritten chapter: notes towards a social and religious history of Geniza magic / Steven Wasserstrom
- Magic and human reason / Marcel Sigrist.