1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452959003321

Autore

Chajes Jeffrey Howard

Titolo

Between worlds [[electronic resource] ] : dybbuks, exorcists, and early modern Judaism / / J.H. Chajes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2003

ISBN

1-283-88994-3

0-8122-0155-8

Descrizione fisica

278 p

Collana

Jewish Culture and Contexts

Jewish culture and contexts

Disciplina

296.3/16

Soggetti

Dybbuk

Spirit possession

Exorcism

Mysticism - Judaism

Spiritual life - Judaism

Future life - Judaism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-265) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Emergence o/Dybbuk Possession -- Chapter 2. The Emergence o/Dybbuk Possession -- Chapter 3. The Task of the Exorcist -- Chapter 4. Dybbuk Possession and Women's Religiosity -- Chapter 5. Skeptics and Storytellers -- Arrival -- Appendix: Spirit Possession Narratives from Early Modern Jewish Sources -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments

Sommario/riassunto

After a nearly two-thousand-year interlude, and just as Christian Europe was in the throes of the great Witch Hunt and what historians have referred to as "The Age of the Demoniac," accounts of spirit possession began to proliferate in the Jewish world. Concentrated at first in the Near East but spreading rapidly westward, spirit possession, both benevolent and malevolent, emerged as perhaps the most characteristic form of religiosity in early modern Jewish society.



Adopting a comparative historical approach, J. H. Chajes uncovers this strain of Jewish belief to which scant attention has been paid. Informed by recent research in historical anthropology, Between Worlds provides fascinating descriptions of the cases of possession as well as analysis of the magical techniques deployed by rabbinic exorcists to expel the ghostly intruders.Seeking to understand the phenomenon of spirit possession in its full complexity, Chajes delves into its ideational framework-chiefly the doctrine of reincarnation-while exploring its relation to contemporary Christian and Islamic analogues. Regarding spirit possession as a form of religious expression open to-and even dominated by-women, Chajes initiates a major reassessment of women in the history of Jewish mysticism. In a concluding section he examines the reception history of the great Hebrew accounts of spirit possession, focusing on the deployment of these "ghost stories" in the battle against incipient skepticism in the turbulent Jewish community of seventeenth-century Amsterdam.Exploring a phenomenon that bridged learned and ignorant, rich and poor, men and women, Jews and Gentiles, Between Worlds maps for the first time a prominent feature of the early modern Jewish religious landscape, as "idian as it was portentous: the nexus of the living and the dead.



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996394774303316

Autore

Markham Gervase <1568?-1637.>

Titolo

Cheap and good husbandry, for the well-ordering of all beasts and fowls, and for the general cure of their diseases [[electronic resource] ] : Containing the natures, breeding, choice, use, feeding, and curing of the diseases of all manner of cattel, as horse, oxe, cow, sheep, goats, swine, and tame conies. Shewing further the whole art of riding great horses, with the breaking and ordering of them, and the dyeting of the running, hunting, and ambling horse, and the manner how to use them in their travel. Also, approved rules for the cramming, and fatting of all sorts of poultry, and fowls, ... Together with the use and profit of bees, the manner of fish-ponds, and the taking of all sorts of fish. Gathered together for the general good and profit of the common-wealth, ... differing from all former and forrain experiments, ... Newly corrected and enlarged with many excellent additions

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : printed by E.H. for George Sawbridge, at the Bible on Ludgate-Hill, 1676

Edizione

[The thirteenth edition.]

Descrizione fisica

[10], 146, [10] p. : ill

Soggetti

Veterinary medicine

Bees

Fishes

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Dedication signed: G.M., i.e. Gervase Markham.

With marginal notes.

Reproduction of the original in the Harvard University Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0062