| Description |
1 online resource (278 pages). |
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Princeton legacy library
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Princeton legacy library.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-247) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Introduction. Mentalities of ancient Judaism -- Memory, Torah, and magic -- The Sar-Torah texts. The texts -- Sar-Torah narratives : translation and analysis -- Sar-Torah rituals and related texts -- Ritual and revelation. Ritual and Purity -- Tradition and authority -- Conclusions. Scholastic magic. |
| Summary |
In exploring the social background of early Jewish mysticism, Scholastic Magic tells the story of how imagination and magic were made to serve memory and scholasticism. In the visionary literature that circulated between the fifth and ninth centuries, there are strange tales of ancient rabbis conjuring the angel known as Sar-Torah, the "Prince of the Torah." This angel endowed the rabbis themselves with spectacular memory and skill in learning, and then taught them the formulas for giving others these gifts. This literature, according to Michael Swartz, gives us rare glimpse. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Heikhalot rabbati.
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Heikhalot rabbati. |
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Maʻaśeh merkavah.
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Maʻaśeh merkavah. |
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Heikhalot rabbati. |
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Maʻaśeh merkavah. |
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Mysticism -- Judaism -- History.
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Mysticism -- Judaism. |
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History. |
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Jewish magic.
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Rabbis -- Prayers and devotions.
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| Genre/Form |
Prayers and devotions.
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Intercessory prayer -- Judaism.
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Intercessory prayer -- Judaism. |
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Jewish magic. |
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RELIGION -- Judaism -- Rituals & Practice. |
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Rabbis. |
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RELIGION -- Judaism -- General. |
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History.
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Prayers.
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Prayers.
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Devotional literature.
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Devotional literature.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Swartz, Michael D. Scholastic magic. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, ©1996 0691010986 (DLC) 96033720 (OCoLC)34547002 |
| ISBN |
9781400864416 (electronic book) |
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1400864410 (electronic book) |
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