TY - BOOK
T1 - Continuity and innovation in the magical tradition
A2 - Bohak, Gideon
A2 - Harari, Yuval
A2 - Shaked, Shaul
N1 - notValidatingIssn:1570-078X ;
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
U2 - 10.1163/ej.978900420351
DO - 10.1163/ej.978900420351
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SN - 9789004203518
SN - 9786613161567
SN - 9004215263
SN - 9004203516
SN - 1283161567
T3 - Jerusalem studies in religion and culture
BT - Continuity and innovation in the magical tradition
PB - Brill
CY - Leiden
ER -