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The mechanics of providence : the workings of ancient Jewish magic and mysticism /

"The phenomena we call magic and mysticism had a profound effect on the shaping of Judaism in late antiquity. In this volume, Michael D. Swartz offers a wide-ranging study of the purposes, world-views, ritual dynamics, literary forms, and social settings of ancient Jewish magic and mysticism an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Swartz, Michael D. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, [2018]
Colección:Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum ; 172.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Magic. Jewish Magic in Late Antiquity ; Scribal Magic and Its Rhetoric ; The Dead Sea Scrolls and Later Jewish Magic and Mysticism ; The Magical Jesus ; Magical Piety ; Magic and Sacrifice ; Understanding Ritual ; Verbal and Visual Aesthetics ; The Book of the Great Name
  • Part II: Mysticism. Early Jewish Mysticism and the Visionary Tradition ; Merkavah Mysticism as Mysticism ; Three-Dimensional Philology ; Patterns of Mystical Prayer ; "Like the Ministering Angels" ; Hekhalot and Piyyut ; "The Seal of the Merkavah".