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Continuity and innovation in the magical tradition /
This volume brings together thirteen studies by as many experts in the study of one or more ancient or medieval magical traditions, from ancient Mesopotamia and Pharaonic and Greco-Roman Egypt to the Greek world, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It lays special emphasis on the recurrence of similar...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2011.
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| Colección: | Jerusalem studies in religion and culture ;
v. 15. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Continuity and innovation in the magical tradition : a Jerusalem symposium and its wider contexts / Gideon Bohak, Yuval Harari and Shaul Shaked
- The revision of Babylonian anti-witchcraft incantations : the critical analysis of incantations in the ceremonial series Maqlû / Tzvi Abusch
- From ritual to magic : ancient Egyptian precursors of the Charitesion and their social setting / Joachim Friedrich Quack
- Scribal practices in the production of magic handbooks in Egypt / Jacco Dieleman
- Magic and divination : two Apolline oracles on magic / Fritz Graf
- Magic and medicine in the Roman imperial period : two case studies / Christopher A. Faraone
- When magical techniques and mystical practices become neighbors : methodological considerations / Ithamar Gruenwald
- Transmission and transformation of spells : the case of the Jewish Babylonian Aramaic bowls / Shaul Shaked
- 'This is a qyblʹ for overturning sorceries' : form, formula
- threads in a web of transmission / Dan Levene
- Astral magic in ancient Jewish discourse : adoption, transformation, differentiation / Kocku von Stuckrad
- The planets, the Jews and the beginnings of "Jewish astrology" / Reimund Leicht
- Metatron and the treasure of gold : notes on a dream inquiry text from the Cairo Genizah / Yuval Harari
- The magical rotuli from the Cairo Genizah / Gideon Bohak
- An Arabic version of "The Sword of Moses" / Alexander Fodor.