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Demons in the Details : Demonic Discourse and Rabbinic Culture in Late Antique Babylonia /
The Babylonian Talmud is full of stories of demonic encounters, and it also includes many laws that attempt to regulate such encounters. In this book, Sara Ronis takes the reader on a journey across the rabbinic canon, exploring how late antique rabbis imagined, feared, and controlled demons. Ronis...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley, CA :
University of California Press,
[2022]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Rabbis and Demon
- 1 Origin Stories
- 2 Classification Matters
- 3 How to Avoid Demonic Dangers
- 4 Legal Demons
- 5 Serving the Rabbinic Project
- 6 Exorcising Demons
- Conclusion: The Demon's in the Details
- Bibliography
- Subject Index
- Index of Jewish Sources