Scholastic Magic : : Ritual and Revelation in Early Jewish Mysticism / / Michael D. Swartz.
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 conjur...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1996 |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Edition: | Course Book |
Language: | English |
Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (278 p.) :; 4 tables |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- ABBREVIATIONS
- PART I. Introduction
- CHAPTER 1. Mentalities of Ancient Judaism
- CHAPTER 2. Memory, Torah, and Magic
- PART II: The Sar-Torah Texts
- CHAPTER 3. The Texts
- CHAPTER 4. Sar-Torah Narratives: Translation and Analysis
- CHAPTER 5. Sar-Torah Rituals and Related Texts
- PART III: Ritual and Revelation
- CHAPTER 6. Ritual and Purity
- CHAPTER 7. Tradition and Authority
- PART IV: Conclusions
- CHAPTER 8. Scholastic Magic
- Bibliography
- General Index