Officina magica : essays on the practice of magic in antiquity / edited by Shaul Shaked.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Shaked, Shaul
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005.
Series:	IJS studies in Judaica ; v. 4.
Subjects:	Jewish magic > Congresses. Magic in rabbinical literature > Congresses. Magic, Ancient > Congresses. BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Magick Studies. BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Witchcraft & Wicca. Jewish magic Magic, Ancient Magic in rabbinical literature Magie. Conference papers and proceedings
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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.

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