LEADER 04447nam 2200757 a 450 001 9910452959003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-88994-3 010 $a0-8122-0155-8 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812201550 035 $a(CKB)2550000000707617 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000810504 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11503829 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000810504 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10846312 035 $a(PQKB)10924945 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441727 035 $a(OCoLC)833582340 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse18524 035 $a(DE-B1597)449007 035 $a(OCoLC)1013943961 035 $a(OCoLC)979591435 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812201550 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441727 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10641562 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL420244 035 $a(OCoLC)842268430 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000707617 100 $a20030227d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBetween worlds$b[electronic resource] $edybbuks, exorcists, and early modern Judaism /$fJ.H. Chajes 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2003 215 $a278 p 225 0 $aJewish Culture and Contexts 225 0$aJewish culture and contexts 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-2170-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [245]-265) and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction -- $tChapter 1. The Emergence o/Dybbuk Possession -- $tChapter 2. The Emergence o/Dybbuk Possession -- $tChapter 3. The Task of the Exorcist -- $tChapter 4. Dybbuk Possession and Women's Religiosity -- $tChapter 5. Skeptics and Storytellers -- $tArrival -- $tAppendix: Spirit Possession Narratives from Early Modern Jewish Sources -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex -- $tAcknowledgments 330 $aAfter 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. 606 $aDybbuk 606 $aSpirit possession 606 $aExorcism 606 $aMysticism$xJudaism 606 $aSpiritual life$xJudaism 606 $aFuture life$xJudaism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aDybbuk. 615 0$aSpirit possession. 615 0$aExorcism. 615 0$aMysticism$xJudaism. 615 0$aSpiritual life$xJudaism. 615 0$aFuture life$xJudaism. 676 $a296.3/16 700 $aChajes$b Jeffrey Howard$0611763 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452959003321 996 $aBetween worlds$953244 997 $aUNINA