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Author
Series
Brill reference library of Judaism volume 27
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Author
Series
Brill reference library of Judaism volume 14
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Author
Series
Brill reference library of Judaism volume 15
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Author
Series
Ancient Judaism and early Christianity volume 84
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"This book studies the significance of sight in rabbinic cultures across Palestine and Mesopotamia (approximately first to seventh centuries). It tracks the extent and effect to which the rabbis living in the Greco-Roman and Persian worlds sought to appropriate, recast and discipline contemporaneous understandings of sight. Sight had a crucial role to play in the realms of divinity, sexuality and gender, idolatry and, ultimately, rabbinic subjectivity....
11) A mirror of rabbinic hermeneutics: studies in religion, magic and language theory in ancient Judaism
Author
Series
Studia Judaica volume Band 82
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Series
Ancient Judaism and early Christianity volume Volume 89
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Gideon Bohak gives an account of the broad history of ancient Jewish magic, from the Second Temple to the rabbinic period. It is based both on ancient magicians' own compositions and products in Aramaic, Hebrew and Greek, and on the descriptions and prescriptions of non-magicians. The main focus is on the cultural make-up of ancient Jewish magic, and special attention is paid to the processes of cross-cultural contacts and borrowings between Jews...
Author
Series
Taubman lectures in Jewish studies volume 4
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Author
Series
Studies in Christianity and Judaism volume 6
Publisher
Published for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion = Corporation canadienne des sciences religieuses by Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English