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This book discusses various aspects of the theory and practice of magic in antique cultures around the Mediterranean. While some of its contributors address problems of methodology of research into magic and the definition of magic, others deal with specific historical and textual issues. Although a major focus is on Jewish texts ranging from antiquity to the medieval period, the book also includes studies of several magical texts from ancient Mesopotamia and their impact on later magical practice, and studies of Greek and Zoroastrian texts and artifacts. The approaches thus range from the examination of textual or visual sources to theoretical issues such as the history of research and the definition of magic.

Jewish magic --- Magic in rabbinical literature --- Magic, Ancient --- Rabbinical literature --- Magic, Jewish --- Magic, Semitic

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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 conjuring the angel known as Sar-Torah, the "Prince of the Torah." This angel endowed the rabbis themselves with spectacular memory and skill in learning, and then taught them the formulas for giving others these gifts. This literature, according to Michael Swartz, gives us rare glimpses of how ancient and medieval Jews who stood outside the mainstream of rabbinic leadership viewed Torah and ritual. Through close readings of the texts, he uncovers unfamiliar dimensions of the classical Judaic idea of Torah and the rabbinic civilization that forged them.Swartz sets the stage for his analysis with a discussion of the place of memory and orality in ancient and medieval Judaism and how early educational and physiological theories were marshaled for the cultivation of memory. He then examines the unusual magical rituals for conjuring angels and ascending to heaven as well as the authors' attitudes to authority and tradition, showing them to have subverted essential rabbinic values even as they remained beholden to them. The result is a ground-breaking analysis of the social and conceptual background of rabbinic Judaism and ancient Mediterranean religions. Offering complete translations of the principal Sar-Torah texts, Scholastic Magic will become essential reading for those interested in religions in the ancient and medieval world, ritual studies, and popular religion.Originally published in 1996.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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The corpus of Aramaic incantation bowls from Sasanian Mesopotamia is perhaps the most important source we have for studying the everyday beliefs and practices of the Jewish, Christian, Mandaean, Manichaean, Zoroastrian and Pagan communities on the eve of the Islamic conquests. In Jewish Aramaic Curse Texts from Late-Antique Mesopotamia , Dan Levene collects and analyses a selection of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic incantation bowls. While such texts are usually apotropaic or healing in purpose, those collected here are distinctive in that their purpose was to curse or return curses against human adversaries. This book presents new editions of thirty texts, of which fourteen are edited here for the first time, with an introduction, commentary, analysis and glossaries, as well as photographs. “In this valuable addition to the literature on the role of bowls with aggressive texts in magic practices in this period, Levene (Jewish history and culture, U. of Southampton, UK) presents a summary of newly edited and already published bowls with Aramaic transcription; English translation; its type (e.g., invocation of demons to attack a named person, counter-charm); publication source; formulaic parallels in other texts; and notes.' Reference andamp; Research Book News, 2013.

Incantations, Aramaic. --- Incantation bowls. --- Jewish magic --- Magic, Jewish --- Magic, Semitic --- Babylonian demon bowls --- Bowls, Incantation --- Magic bowls --- Ceremonial objects --- Aramaic incantations --- History. --- Pergamonmuseum (Berlin, Germany) --- British Museum --- British Library --- Daiei Hakubutsukan --- Matḥaf al-Barīṭānī --- Museo Británico --- Britské muzeum v Londýně --- Briṭish Muzeʼon --- Ta Ying po wu kuan --- Da Ying bo wu guan --- Museum Britannicum --- Great Britain. --- בריטיש מוזיאום --- מוזיאון הבריטי --- 大英博物館 --- Pergamon Museum (Berlin, Germany) --- Pergamum Museum (Berlin, Germany) --- Staatliche Museen zu Berlin--Preussischer Kulturbesitz. --- Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz. --- Archaeological collections. --- Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz. Pergamonmuseum

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Now available in English, a provocative new biography of the founder of Hasidism

Leadership --- Mysticism --- Jewish magic. --- Magic, Jewish --- Magic, Semitic --- Religious aspects --- Judaism. --- Baʻal Shem Ṭov, --- Israel ben Eliezer, --- Baalʹ-Shem-Tov, Israėlʹ, --- Baʻal Shem Tob, Israel ben Eliezer, --- Baʻal Shem Ṭov, Yiśraʼel, --- Baal-Shem-Tov, Yisroel, --- Baalshem, Israel, --- Baʻalshem, Yiśraʼel, --- Bal-Shem-Ṭoyv, Yiśroel, --- Besht, --- Ha-Besht, --- Besht, Israel ben Eliezer, --- Beshṭ, Yiśraʼel ben Eliʻezer, --- Eliezer, Israel ben, --- Eliʻezer, Yiśraʼel ben, --- Horivash, --- Ha-Rivash, --- Rivash, --- Ha-R. Y. B. Sh., --- R. Y. B. Sh., --- Baʻa. Sh. Ṭ., --- Israel Baal Shem Tov, --- Israel, --- Miedzyboz, Israel of, --- Or Shivʻat ha-Yamim, --- Yiśraʼel Baʻal Shem Ṭov, --- Yiśraʼel ben Eliʻezer, --- Yisroel Baal-Shem-Tov, --- Yiśroel Bal-Shem-Ṭoyv, --- Baal Szem Tow, --- Beszt, --- Yiśraʼel, --- ב --- בעש״ט --- בעש״ט, --- בעש״ט, ישראל, --- בעל שם --- בעל שם טוב, --- בעל־שם־טוב --- הבעש״ט --- ישראל בעש״ט --- ישראל בעל שם טוב --- ישראל בעל שם טוב, --- ישראל, --- ישראל בן אליעזר, --- ישראל בן אליעזר בעל שם טוב, --- ישראל בן אליעזר ושרה --- ישראל-בן-אליעזר, בעל שם טוב, --- Baal Shem Tov,