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Leiden: Brill, 2013. Hardcover. Fine. Quarto (11-1/4" x 8-3/4"). xxiii, (5), 368pp. Dark blue over pictorial olive boards, spine lettered in white. Illustrated with 85 photos of bowls with some enhanced drawings of details. A fine, as new volume. This volume presents editions of sixty-four Jewish Aramaic incantation bowls from the Schøyen Collection, with accompanying introductions, translations, philological notes, photographs and indices, relating to the magical divorce and the wonder-working sages Hanina ben Dosa and Joshua bar Perahia. (OCLC) 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 Schøyen Collection, which has some 650 texts in different varieties of Aramaic: Jewish Aramaic, Mandaic and Syriac, and forms the largest collection of…
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Aramaic Bowl Spells: Jewish Babylonian Aramaic Bowls Volume One Tapa dura - 2013
de Shaul Shaked; James Nathan Ford; Siam Bhayro
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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.
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- Título Aramaic Bowl Spells: Jewish Babylonian Aramaic Bowls Volume One
- Autor Shaul Shaked; James Nathan Ford; Siam Bhayro
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Páginas 396
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Brill
- Fecha de publicación 2013
- ISBN 9789004203945 / 900420394X
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- Interdisciplinary Studies: Jewish Studies
- Religious Orientation: Jewish
- Dewey Decimal Code 492.2
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Aramaic Bowl Spells. Jewish Babylonian Aramaic Bowls. Volume One
de Shaked, Saul, and James Nathan Ford and Siam Bhayro 2 others
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