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Aramaic Bowl Spells: Jewish Babylonian Aramaic Bowls Volume One
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Aramaic Bowl Spells: Jewish Babylonian Aramaic Bowls Volume One Hardcover - 2013

by Shaul Shaked; James Nathan Ford; Siam Bhayro

From the rear cover

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 Sch yen 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-three 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 anina ben Dosa and Joshua bar Pera ia. It is the first of a multi-volume project that aims to publish the entire Sch yen Collection of Aramaic incantation bowls.

Details

  • Title Aramaic Bowl Spells: Jewish Babylonian Aramaic Bowls Volume One
  • Author Shaul Shaked; James Nathan Ford; Siam Bhayro
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 396
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Brill
  • Date 2013
  • ISBN 9789004203945 / 900420394X
  • Themes
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Jewish Studies
    • Religious Orientation: Jewish
  • Dewey Decimal Code 492.2

About the author

Shaul Shaked, Ph.D. (1964) in Iranian Languages, SOAS, is Schwarzmann University Professor (Emeritus) in Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published extensively in the fields of Semitic and Iranian Philology, Zoroastrianism and Judaism, and received the Israel Prize for Linguistics in 2000.

James Nathan Ford, Ph.D. (2003) in Ugaritic magic, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is Senior Lecturer in Semitic Languages at Bar-Ilan University. His research interests include Semitic philology and ancient near eastern and Jewish magic. He received the American Oriental Society's Jonas C. Greenfield Prize for Younger Semitists in 2000.

Siam Bhayro, Ph.D. (2000) in Semitic Languages, University College London, is Senior Lecturer in Early Jewish Studies at the University of Exeter. His research interests include the Bible, Semitic Languages, Early Judaism, medicine in the Christian and Islamic orient, and Jewish magic.

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