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Author : Helen R. Jacobus
Publisher : Gorgias Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
ISBN : 1463203101
Author : Helen R. Jacobus,Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme
Publisher : Gorgias PressLlc
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1611438691
A selection of essays on magic and divination in relation to the biblical world, including Mesopotamian demonology, Akkadian literary influences, exorcism, healing, calendars, astrology, bibliomancy, dreams, ritual magic, priestly divination, prophecy, magic in the Christian Apocrypha and the New Testament, magic in rabbinic literature, and Jewish Aramaic magic bowls.
Author : Solomon Nigosian
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008-07-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781782847625
Explores the practices and rituals associated with magic and divination among the ancient Israelites as documented in the Old Testament.
Author : Ann Jeffers
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9004105131
This publication is a detailed study of magical and divinatory practices in the Ancient Near East, particularly in Palestine and Syria. It combines the insights of the Old Testament with the data available from Phoenician and the older Ugaritic texts. It traces the links both historically and archaeologically.
Author : Michael Labahn,Bert Jan Lietaert Peerbolte
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567629555
This collection of articles by distinguished scholars and experts in their particular fields of research is introduced by a chapter dealing with general matters of the current hermeneutics of magic: what is the nature of magic and what is the understanding of magic in the Western world-view and what - for instance - in the African world? Centered around studies on Jesus and magic the second part contains studies on the use of the term "magic" in the New Testament and especially in Acts. The third section broadens the understanding of magic through selected case studies in different approaches to magic in the environment and background of the New Testament (Old Testament, Qumran, Apuleius, Women as Magicians). Early Christianity subsequent to the New Testament develops its own view of magic, criticizing pagan magic but not being uninfluenced by magic or magic-like practices. This development is part of the fourth and last chapter of the collection along with two different papers on the possible use of Jewish and Christian themes in later magical texts. The collection explores the importance of magic within Early Christianity, an issue shared with its Old Testament and Jewish roots and with its ancient background, implying reluctance and critique. Both magical traits and the critique of non-Christian magic have an impact on later scripture and still exert influence now on modern theoretical discussion and popular ideas.
Author : Todd Klutz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567318015
The category 'magic' , long used to signify an allegedly substantive type of activity distinguishable from 'religion', has nearly been dismantled by recent historical and social-scientific approaches to religious studies. While recognising and at times reinforcing this stance, the essays in this collection show that there is still much to be learned about the cultural context of early Judaism and Christianity by analysing ancient texts which either use 'magic' as a category for purposes of deviance labelling or promote behaviour of a broadly magico-religious variety. Through sustained engagement with texts ranging from Exod. 7-9 and Acts 8 to the Testament of Solomon and the Late Antique alchemical treatise known as the Cyranides, this volume focuses chiefly on materials that challenge the familiar boundaries between miracle and magic and medicine; yet it also heightens awareness of the way unsuspecting use of a sick sign (e.g. 'magic') can impede critical understanding of texts and their respective contexts of production and reception. Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement Series, Volume 245.
Author : Leda Ciraolo,Jonathan Seidel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9789004497368
This collection of essays focuses on divination across the Ancient World from early Mesopotamia to late antiquity. The authors deal with the forms, theory and poetics of this important and still poorly understood ancient phenomenon.
Author : José Lucas Brum Teixeira
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110613421
Tobiah’s travel with the angel in Tobit chapter six constitutes a singular moment in the book. It marks a before and after for Tobiah as a character. Considered attentively, Tobit six reveals a remarkable richness in content and form, and functions as a crucial turning point in the plot’s development. This book is the first thorough study of Tobit six, examining the poetics and narrative function of this key chapter and revisiting arguments about its meaning. A better understanding of this central chapter deepens our comprehension of the book as a whole.
Author : Charles Burnett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015038551886
After discussing the terminology of talismanic magic (or necromancy) and its position in divisions of science in the Middle Ages, this book traces the history of talismanic texts from the Classical period through the Arabic world to the Latin Middle Ages. The principal authorities are Hermes and Aristotle, and the search for the 'secret knowledge' of these ancient sages is shown to have been a catalyst for the translating activity from Arabic into Latin in 12th-century Spain. The second half of the volume is devoted to examples of the kinds of divination prevalent in Arabic and Latin-reading societies: chiromancy, onomancy, scapulimancy, geomancy and fortune-telling. The book ends with advice on when to practice alchemy and a prophetic letter of supposed Arabic provenance, warning of the coming of the Mongols. Several editions of previously unedited texts are included, with translations.
Author : David Birnbaum,Martin S. Cohen
Publisher : New Paradigm Matrix
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
In its famous opening chapter, the Hebrew Bible describes creation as consisting of twin acts of making and separating: God creates light on the first day and then separates it from the darkness, just as on the next day God creates the firmament and then sets it in place to separate the waters above from the waters below. And so it follows, at least in theory, that when human beings seek to create through the medium of their own artistry, creativity, or industry—and are obviously unable to mimic the uniquely divine act of creation ex nihilo—they seek to do so through the one part of the process they can imitate: separation. Indeed, the famous quip that the correct way to make a statue of a horse is to take a huge block of marble and then to chip away the parts that don’t look like a horse is just an amusing way of suggesting the same idea: namely, that the human creative process involves the perception of something embedded within something else and then the subsequent liberation of that thing from its former setting so that it may exist on its own and in its own right.
Author : Helen R. Jacobus
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004284067
Helen R Jacobus demonstrates mathematically that the Aramaic calendar texts from Qumran were designed to show the position of the sun and moon in the zodiac for each day of the month forever.
Author : Ida Fröhlich,Nóra Dávid,Gerhard Langer
Publisher : V&R Unipress
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783847012368
Biblical Psalms are a common heritage of Jewish and Christian cultures. Serving for the common liturgy of the Jerusalem Temple and individual prayers since biblical times they inspired Hebrew poetical language. The Qumran community, as well as Jewish and Christian communities of Late Antiquity attributed to them a special authority and apotropaic function. Quoted and interpreted in various ways in the New Testament and Rabbinic tradition they had a fundamental role in regular liturgies since the Middle Ages. Referred to in medical texts, recited on pilgrimages and at funeral vigils they represented an important aspect of folk religion and the formation of religious identity. The present volume is intended to show the many ways the Psalms were used and enjoyed a lasting popularity in regular and folk religion, collectively and individually, from antiquity until today.
Author : Dan Ben Amos
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
Page : 873 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780827608719
Thanks to these generous donors for making the publication of the books in this series possible: Lloyd E. Cotsen; The Maurice Amado Foundation; National Endowment for the Humanities; and the National Foundation for Jewish Culture Tales from Arab Lands presents tales from North Africa, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq in the latest volume of the most important collection of Jewish folktales ever published. This is the third book in the multi-volume series in the tradition of Louis Ginzberg?s timeless classic, Legends of the Jews. The tales here and the others in this series have been selected from the Israel Folktale Archives (IFA), named in Honor of Dov Noy, at The University of Haifa, a treasure house of Jewish lore that has remained largely unavailable to the entire world until now. Since the creation of the State of Israel, the IFA has collected more than 20,000 tales from newly arrived immigrants, long-lost stories shared by their families from around the world. The tales come from the major ethno-linguistic communities of the Jewish world and are representative of a wide variety of subjects and motifs, especially rich in Jewish content and context. Each of the tales is accompanied by in-depth commentary that explains the tale's cultural, historical, and literary background and its similarity to other tales in the IFA collection, and extensive scholarly notes. There is also an introduction that describes the culture and its folk narrative tradition, a world map of the areas covered, illustrations, biographies of the collectors and narrators, tale type and motif indexes, a subject index, and a comprehensive bibliography. Until the establishment of the IFA, we had had only limited access to the wide range of Jewish folk narratives. Even in Israel, the gathering place of the most wide-ranging cross-section of world Jewry, these folktales have remained largely unknown. Many of the communities no longer exist as cohesive societies in their representative lands; the Holocaust, migration, and changes in living styles have made the continuation of these tales impossible. This series is a monument to a rich but vanishing oral tradition. This series is a monument to a rich but vanishing oral tradition.
Author : James Nathan Ford,Matthew Morgenstern
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004411838
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 : Thomas Kazen,Rikard Roitto
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783161624650