Continuity and innovation in the magical tradition / / edited by Gideon Bohak, Yuval Harari, and Shaul Shaked.

• Superior document: Jerusalem studies in religion and culture, v. 15
• TeilnehmendeR: Bohak, Gideon, 1961-; Harari, Yuval.; Shaked, Shaul.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Jerusalem studies in religion and culture ; v. 15.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (396 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Continuity And Innovation In The Magical Tradition: A Jerusalem Symposium And Its Wider Contexts /; The Revision Of Babylonian Anti-Witchcraft Incantations:The Critical Analysis Of Incantations In The Ceremonial Series Maqlû /; From Ritual To Magic: Ancient Egyptian Precursors Of The Charitesion And Their Social Setting /; Scribal Practices In The Production Of Magic Handbooks In Egypt /; Magic And Divination: Two Apolline Oracles On Magic /; Magic And Medicine In The Roman Imperial Period: Two Case Studies /; When Magical Techniques And Mystical Practices Become Neighbors: Methodological Considerations /; Transmission And Transformation Of Spells: The Case Of The Jewish Babylonian Aramaic Bowls /; ‘This Is A Qybl’ For Overturning Sorceries’: Form, Formula—Threads In A Web Of Transmission /; Astral Magic In Ancient Jewish Discourse: Adoption, Transformation, Differentiation /; The Planets, The Jews And The Beginnings Of “Jewish Astrology” /; Metatron And The Treasure Of Gold: Notes On A Dream Inquiry Text From The Cairo Genizah /; The Magical Rotuli From The Cairo Genizah /; An Arabic Version Of “The Sword Of Moses” /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1283161567; 9786613161567; 9004215263
• ISSN: 1570-078X
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Gideon Bohak, Yuval Harari, and Shaul Shaked.

This volume brings together thirteen studies by as many experts in the study of one or more ancient or medieval magical traditions, from ancient Mesopotamia and Pharaonic and Greco-Roman Egypt to the Greek world, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It lays special emphasis on the recurrence of similar phenomena in magical texts as far apart as the Akkadian cuneiform tablets and an Arabic manuscript bought in Egypt in the late-twentieth century. Such similarities demonstrate to what extent many different cultures share a “magical logic” which is strikingly identical, and in particular they show the recurrence of certain phenomena when magical practices are transmitted in written form and often preserve, adopt and adapt much older textual units.