Two New Incantation Bowls from Rome (Italy)

Moriggi, Marco

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“…To these, one may add a handful of aramaic magical papyri, all in a sorry state of preservation (Bohak 2008: 165-69), which also will have to be edited, or re-edited, in one form or another. on the other hand, we have a few hundred published Babylonian aramaic incantation bowls (e.g., Montgomery 1913;Gordon 1937 and1941;Jeruzalmi 1963;isbell 1976;Franco 1978-79;Geller 1980 andnaveh andShaked 1985 and1993;Segal 2000;Levene 2003;Müller-kessler 2005;Moriggi 2005; see also the larger surveys by Juusola 1999;Levene 2002;Morony 2003). These will soon be joined by many hundreds of such bowls which are currently flooding the antiquities markets and are being bought mostly by private collectors.…”

Section: The Jewish Magical Texts Of Late Antiquitymentioning

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Prolegomena to the Study of the Jewish Magical Tradition

Bohak

2009

Currents in Biblical Research

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Recent years have seen a steady rise in the scholarly interest in Jewish magic. The present paper seeks to take stock of what has already been done, to explain how further study of Jewish magical texts and artifacts might make major contributions to the study of Judaism as a whole, and to provide a blueprint for further progress in this field. Its main claim is that the number of unedited and even uncharted primary sources for the study of Jewish magic is staggering, and that these sources must serve as the starting point for any serious study of the Jewish magical tradition from antiquity to the twenty-first century. Such a study must both compare the Jewish magical texts and practices of each historical period with those of the contemporaneous non-Jewish world, and thus trace processes of cross-cultural contacts and influences, and compare the Jewish magical texts and practices of one period with those of another, so as to detect processes of inner-Jewish continuity and transmission. Finally, such a study must flesh out the place of magical practices and practitioners within the Jewish society of different periods, and within different Jewish communities.

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Prolegomena to the Study of the Jewish Magical Tradition

Bohak

2009

Currents in Biblical Research

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“…the pioneering study of Hebrew in the bowls by Mishor (2007), as well as Elitzur (2013). 11 On Jewish liturgy and the bowl texts, see Naveh and Shaked (1993, 22-31) and Levene (2003, 11-14;2005). On magic and liturgy more broadly, see Schäfer (1996) and van der Vliet (2011).…”

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The Bible in the Bowls

Waller

2022

Semitic Languages and Cultures

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The Bible in the Bowls represents a complete catalogue of Hebrew Bible quotations found in the published corpus of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic magic bowls. As our only direct epigraphic witnesses to the Hebrew Bible from late antique Babylonia, the bowls are uniquely placed to contribute to research on the (oral) transmission of the biblical text in late antiquity; the pre-Masoretic Babylonian vocalisation tradition; the formation of the liturgy and the early development of the Jewish prayer book; the social locations of biblical knowledge in late antique Babylonia and socio-religious typologies of the bowls; and the dynamics of scriptural citation in ancient Jewish magic. In a number of cases, the bowls also contain the earliest attestations of biblical verses not found in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Pre-dating the next available evidence by four to five centuries, the bowls are a valuable resource for biblical text critics. By making these valuable witnesses to the Hebrew Bible easily available to scholars, The Bible in the Bowls is designed to facilitate further research by linguists, liturgists, biblical text critics, and students of Jewish magic. It collates and transcribes each biblical verse as it appears in the published bowls, furnishes details of the bowls’ publication, and notes various features of interest. The catalogue is also accompanied by an accessible introduction that briefly introduces the incantation bowls, surveys their deployment of scripture in light of their magical goals, and discusses the orthography of the quotations and what this can tell us about the encounter with the biblical text in late antique Babylonia.

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Molin²

2022

Semitic Languages and Cultures

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Two New Incantation Bowls from Rome (Italy)

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Prolegomena to the Study of the Jewish Magical Tradition

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