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The corpus of Aramaic magic 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 published in this volume are from the Schøyen Collection, which has over 650 texts in Jewish Babylonian Aramaic, Mandaic and Syriac, and forms the largest collection of its kind in the world. This volume presents editions of fifty-five Jewish Babylonian Aramaic texts, with accompanying introductions, translations, philological notes, photographs and indices. The themes covered are magical seals and signet-rings. It is the second in a multi-volume project that aims to publish the Schøyen Collection of magic bowls.
Price: $161.00
Pages: 316
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Magical and Religious Literature of Late Antiquity
Publication Date:
23 March 2022
ISBN: 9789004471702
Format: Hardcover
''Il faut féliciter les auteurs, des spécialistes de ces textes, pour ce travail assez ingrat sur des textes difficiles, parfois mal conservés ou effacés, cassés et avec quelques fragments manquants. Nul doute que la publication de toute la Collection Schøyen enrichira grandement la pratique juive des protections de possessions des nombreuses puissances démoniaques." - Émile Puech, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, in: Revue Biblique Volume 132, Issue 1, 2025.
Shaul Shaked, PhD (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, PhD (2003) in Ugaritic magic, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is Associate Professor 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, PhD (2000) in Semitic Languages, UCL, is Associate Professor in Early Jewish Studies at the University of Exeter. His research interests include the Bible, Semitic philology, early Judaism, and medicine and magic in the Christian and Islamic orient.
James Nathan Ford, PhD (2003) in Ugaritic magic, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is Associate Professor 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, PhD (2000) in Semitic Languages, UCL, is Associate Professor in Early Jewish Studies at the University of Exeter. His research interests include the Bible, Semitic philology, early Judaism, and medicine and magic in the Christian and Islamic orient.