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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779888703321

Autore

Shaked Shaul

Titolo

Aramaic bowl spells [[electronic resource] ] : Jewish Babylonian Aramaic bowls. Volume one / / by Shaul Shaked, James Nathan Ford, Siam Bhayro ; with contributions from Matthew Morgenstern, Naama Vilozny

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, : Brill, 2013

ISBN

90-04-22937-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (396 p.)

Collana

Jewish Babylonian Aramaic bowls ; ; v. 1

Manuscripts in the Schøyen Collection ; ; v. 20

Magical and religious literature of late antiquity, , 2211-016X ; ; v. 1

Altri autori (Persone)

FordJames Nathan

BhayroSiam

MorgensternMatthew

ViloznyNaama

Disciplina

492/.2

Soggetti

Incantation bowls - Iraq

Incantations, Aramaic

Incantations, Assyro-Babylonian

Inscriptions, Aramaic

Jewish magic - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Introduction -- The Art of the Aramaic Incantation Bowls / Naama Vilozny -- Linguistic Features of the Texts in This Volume / Matthew Morgenstern -- Rabbi Ḥanina Ben Dosa -- Divorce Texts -- Glossary -- Lists -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

The corpus of Aramaic incantation bowls from Sasanian Mesopotamia is perhaps the most important source we have for studying the everyday beliefs and practices of the Jewish, Christian, Mandaean, Manichaean, Zoroastrian and Pagan communities on the eve of the Islamic conquests. The bowls are from the Schøyen Collection, which has some 650 texts in different varieties of Aramaic: Jewish Aramaic, Mandaic and Syriac, and forms the largest collection of its kind anywhere in the world. This volume presents editions of sixty-four Jewish Aramaic



incantation bowls, with accompanying introductions, translations, philological notes, photographs and indices. The themes covered include the magical divorce and the accounts of the wonder-working sages Ḥanina ben Dosa and Joshua bar Peraḥia. It is the first of a multi-volume project that aims to publish the entire Schøyen Collection of Aramaic incantation bowls.