Scholastic Magic : ritual and revelation in early Jewish mysticism /
In exploring the social background of early Jewish mysticism, Scholastic Magic tells the story of how imagination and magic were made to serve memory and scholasticism. In the visionary literature that circulated between the fifth and ninth centuries, there are strange tales of ancient rabbis conjur...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2014]
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Colección: | Princeton legacy library.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction. Mentalities of ancient Judaism
- Memory, Torah, and magic
- The Sar-Torah texts. The texts
- Sar-Torah narratives : translation and analysis
- Sar-Torah rituals and related texts
- Ritual and revelation. Ritual and Purity
- Tradition and authority
- Conclusions. Scholastic magic.