Hebrew and Aramaic Incantation Texts from the Cairo Genizah

Door: Lawrence Schiffmann ; Michael Swartz

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• ISBN: 9781850752851
• Boekreferentie: 3-2
• Uitgever: Sheffield Academic Press
• Taal: ------------------
• Categorie: Kennis en wetenschap
• Details: Hardcover, Goed
• Extra informatie: In this volume, Lawrence Schiffman and Michael Swartz assemble a collection of Jewish incantation texts which were copied in the Middle Ages and preserved in the Cairo Genizah. Many of these texts, now held in Cambridge University Library, are published here for the first time. All the texts are translated and supplemented by detailed philological and historical commentary, tracing the praxis and beliefs of the Jewish magical tradition of Late Antiquity. Their relation to Jewish legal and mystic
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