Jewish Magic and Superstition : : A Study in Folk Religion /

Jewish Magic and Superstition : : A Study in Folk Religion / / Joshua Trachtenberg.

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Alongside the formal development of Judaism from the eleventh through the sixteenth centuries, a robust Jewish folk religion flourished-ideas and practices that never met with wholehearted approval by religious leaders yet enjoyed such wide popularity that they could not be altogether excluded from...

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VerfasserIn:
Trachtenberg, Joshua,
TeilnehmendeR:
Idel, Moshe.
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012]
©2004
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (392 p.) :; illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • FOREWORD
  • PREFACE
  • Chapter 1. THE LEGEND OF JEWISH SORCERY
  • Chapter 2. THE TRUTH BEHIND THE LEGEND
  • Chapter 3. THE POWERS OF EVIL
  • Chapter 4. MAN AND THE DEMONS
  • Chapter 5. THE SPIRITS OF THE DEAD
  • Chapter 6. THE POWERS OF GOOD
  • Chapter 7. "IN THE NAME OF ... "
  • Chapter 8. THE BIBLE IN MAGIC
  • Chapter 9. THE MAGICAL PROCEDURE
  • Chapter 10. AMULETS
  • Chapter 11. THE WAR WITH THE SPIRITS
  • Chapter 12. NATURE AND MAN
  • Chapter 13. MEDICINE
  • Chapter 14. DIVINATION
  • Chapter 15. DREAMS
  • Chapter 16. ASTROLOGY
  • APPENDIX I: THE FORMATION OF MAGICAL NAMES
  • APPENDIX II: MS. SEFER GEMATRIAOT, pp. 43a-44b, ON GEMS
  • ABBREVIATIONS AND HEBREW TITLES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • GLOSSARY OF HEBREW TERMS
  • INDEX

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