A Corpus Of Magic Bowls

Author : Dan Levene
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015058090625

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A Corpus of Magic Bowls by Dan Levene Pdf

This book is a unique collection of Jewish magical texts from Late Antiquity. These consist of spells for protection against a wide variety of supernatural entities, demons, ghouls, and ghosts that were thought to be the cause of humanity's misfortunes. Texts in this collection include spells for the protection of the unborn and new-born baby and for warding off afflictions of the region of the head and belly, evil spirits in general, and human enemies. The magic bowls from which the incantations in this book have been transcribed are a form of amulet which was peculiar to the Mesopotamian regions of modern day Iran and Iraq of the fourth to seventh centuries A.D. These magical texts were individually commissioned by people whose names are usually mentioned within the texts. After having been written by sorcerer -scribes on the inside of earthenware bowls these were buried upside down under the floor of the client's house. These texts are an early testament to Jewish magical textual traditions, elements of which can be traced throughout history to modern-day practices. Levene's book makes available new and exciting material from an area of which little has been published so far.

Author : Dan Levene
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:59543861

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Incantation Texts in Jewish Aramaic from Late Antiquity by Dan Levene Pdf

Author : Charles David Isbell
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781606081068

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Corpus of the Aramaic Incantation Bowls by Charles David Isbell Pdf

Since the 1913 publication of James A. Montgomery's Aramaic Incantation Texts from Nippur, students of the bowls have used that book as the diving platform from which they enter a deep pool of study, In the intervening years, the body of work on incantation (or magic) bowls has continued to grow. Bowls in several ancient languages have attracted the attention of scholars from a variety of countries and traditions. The result has been the publication of a considerable number of translations of additional texts and fragments. Focusing only on those bowls inscribed in Aramaic and even then, only on the seventy-two extant bowls which could be personally read in photographs or facsimiles, Charles Isbell has, in Corpus of the Aramaic Incantation Bowls, compiled an impressive volume of work. Including the complete original texts, full translations, and annotations, Isbell supplements the text with a glossary of all inscribed words, an index of personal names, and a list of quotations from scripture.

Author : Marco Moriggi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004272798

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A Corpus of Syriac Incantation Bowls by Marco Moriggi Pdf

The Aramaic incantation bowls from Sasanian Mesopotamia are the most important source we have for studying the everyday beliefs of the Jewish, Christian, Mandaean, Manichaean, Zoroastrian and Pagan communities on the eve of the Islamic conquests. In A Corpus of Syriac Incantation Bowls, Marco Moriggi presents new editions of forty-nine Syriac incantation bowls that were originally published between 1853 and 2012, with accompanying introductions, translations, philological notes, photographs and glossaries. Furthermore, there is a detailed analysis of the Estrangela and Manichaean scripts as used on the bowls, together with newly drawn script charts. In gathering, organising and updating most of the published Syriac bowls, this book provides a valuable resource for further research into both their language and content. "This volume is a significant contribution to the study of the Syriac incantation bowls, and it should be of great interest to scholars of ‘magic’ in Late Antiquity as well as to those working in Syriac language, literature, and history, since the Syriac incantation bowls are a fascinating—yet often neglected—component of the broader Syriac heritage." - Aaron M. Butts, Catholic University of America,Washington D.C., in: JNES (October 2015) "Moriggi’s new book will no doubt become an essential reference work for all interested in Syriac magical texts from late-antiquity. It is also an important contribution not only to our knowledge of the language of the Syriac incantation bowls, but to the whole field of Babylonian Aramaic (JBA and Mandaic)....Scholars of Aramaic are indebted to Moriggi for making this valuable and rewarding collection available. It is certain to stimulate further interest and discussion in the field." - Ohad Abudraham, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel, in: Orientalia (2015) "The volume certainly makes an enormous contribution to furthering studies on Syriac incantation texts, and more generally on incantation bowls. For any scholar who has an interest in incantation bowls, this work is a ‘mustʼ" - Erica C. D. Hunter, SOAS University of London, in: Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 113.1 (2018)

Author : Lawrence Schiffmann
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1850752850

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Hebrew and Aramaic Incantation Texts from the Cairo Genizah by Lawrence Schiffmann Pdf

In this volume, the authors assemble a group of Jewish incantation texts which were copied in the Middle Ages and preserved in the Cairo Genizah. Most of these texts, now in Cambridge University Library, are published here for the first time. All the texts are translated and provided with detailed philological and historical commentary, tracing the praxis and beliefs of the Jewish magical tradition of Late Antiquity. Their relation to Jewish legal and mystical teachings is also explored.

Author : Shaul Shaked,Siam Nhayro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:934405841

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Aramaic Bowl Spells by Shaul Shaked,Siam Nhayro Pdf

Author : Shaul Shaked,James Nathan Ford,Siam Bhayro
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004471719

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Aramaic Bowl Spells by Shaul Shaked,James Nathan Ford,Siam Bhayro Pdf

This volume presents editions of fifty-five Jewish Babylonian Aramaic magic bowls from the Schøyen Collection, with accompanying introductions, translations, philological notes, photographs and indices. The themes covered are magical seals and signet-rings.

Author : James A. Montgomery
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781512818130

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Aramaic Incantation Texts from Nippur by James A. Montgomery Pdf

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Author : Shaul Shaked,James Nathan Ford (oaut.),Siam Bhayro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Incantation bowls
ISBN : OCLC:1162051323

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Aramaic Bowl Spells by Shaul Shaked,James Nathan Ford (oaut.),Siam Bhayro Pdf

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. The bowls are from the Schøyen Collection, which has some 650 texts in different varieties of Aramaic: Jewish Aramaic, Mandaic and Syriac, and forms the largest collection of its kind anywhere in the world. This volume presents editions of sixty-four Jewish Aramaic incantation bowls, with accompanying introductions, translations, philological notes, photographs and indices. The themes covered include the magical divorce and the accounts of the wonder-working sages Ḥanina ben Dosa and Joshua bar Peraḥia. It is the first of a multi-volume project that aims to publish the entire Schøyen Collection of Aramaic incantation bowls.

Author : Ṭal Ilan
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Names, Greek
ISBN : 3161505514

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Lexicon of Jewish Names in Late Antiquity: The Eastern Diaspora 330 BCE-650 CE by Ṭal Ilan Pdf

"In this lexicon Tal Ilan collects all the information on names of Jews in Palestine and the people who bore them between 330 BCE, a date which marks the Hellenistic conquest of Palestine, and 200 CE, the date usually assigned to the close of the mishnaic period, and the early Roman Empire. Thereby she includes names from literary sources as well as those found in epigraphic and papyrological documents. Tal Ilan discusses the provenance of the names and explains them etymologically, given the many possible sources of influence for the names at that time." "In addition she shows the division between the use of biblical names and the use of Greek and other foreign names. She analyzes the identity of the persons and the choice of name and points out the most popular names at the time. The lexicon is accompanied by a lengthy and comprehensive introduction that scrutinizes the main trends in name giving current at the time." --Book Jacket.

Author : Hallvard Hagelia,Markus Zehnder
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567674258

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Interreligious Relations by Hallvard Hagelia,Markus Zehnder Pdf

This volume presents international perspectives on interreligious dialogue, with a particular focus on how this can be found or understood within biblical texts. The volume is in four parts covering both the Old and New Testaments (and related Greco Roman texts) as well as the history of reception and issues of hermeneutics. Issues of the relationships between religious cultures are assessed both in antiquity and modernity In Part 1 (Old Testament) contributions range from the discussion of the bible and plurality of theologies in church life (Erhard Gerstenberger) to the challenge of multi-culturalism (Cornelis Van Dam). Part 2 (New Testament and Greco-Roman Texts) considers such things as Pagan, Jewish and Christian historiography (Armin Baum) and the different beliefs it is possible to discern in the Ephesian community (Tor Vegge). Part 3 provides issues from the history of reception - including the role of Jesus in Islam (Craig A. Evans). The volume is completed by a hermeneutical reflection by Jože Krašovec, which draws the threads of dialogue together and questions how we can best examine the bible in a modern, international, multicultural society.

Author : David Frankfurter
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004390751

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Guide to the Study of Ancient Magic by David Frankfurter Pdf

This volume seeks to advance the study of ancient magic through separate discussions of ancient terms for ambiguous or illicit ritual, the ancient texts commonly designated magical, and contexts in which the term magic may be used descriptively.

Author : Dan Levene
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004257269

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Jewish Aramaic Curse Texts from Late-Antique Mesopotamia by Dan Levene Pdf

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 & Research Book News, 2013.

Author : James Nathan Ford,Matthew Morgenstern
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004411838

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Aramaic Incantation Bowls in Museum Collections by James Nathan Ford,Matthew Morgenstern Pdf

This volume presents new editions of the Aramaic (and Hebrew) incantation bowl texts in the Frau Professor Hilprecht Collection of Babylonian Antiquities at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena based on high-resolution photographs, together with brief descriptions and photographs of the remaining bowls.

Author : Mika Ahuvia
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520380127

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On My Right Michael, On My Left Gabriel by Mika Ahuvia Pdf

Angelic beings can be found throughout the Hebrew Bible, and by late antiquity the archangels Michael and Gabriel were as familiar as the patriarchs and matriarchs, guardian angels were as present as one’s shadow, and praise of the seraphim was as sacred as the Shema prayer. Mika Ahuvia recovers once-commonplace beliefs about the divine realm and demonstrates that angels were foundational to ancient Judaism. Ancient Jewish practice centered on humans' relationships with invisible beings who acted as intermediaries, role models, and guardians. Drawing on non-canonical sources—incantation bowls, amulets, mystical texts, and liturgical poetry—Ahuvia shows that when ancient men and women sought access to divine aid, they turned not only to their rabbis or to God alone but often also to the angels. On My Right Michael, On My Left Gabriel spotlights these overlooked stories, interactions, and rituals, offering a new entry point to the history of Judaism and the wider ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern world in which it flourished.