Siam Bhayro, James Nathan Ford, Dan Levene, Ortal-Paz Saar

Aramaic Magic Bowls in the Vorderasiatisches Museum in Berlin

Descriptive List and Edition of Selected Texts

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Aramaic Magic Bowls in the Vorderasiatisches Museum in Berlin presents a description of the Vorderasiatisches Museum's magic bowls, including details of users and other names, biblical quotations, parallel texts, and linguistic features. Furthermore, sixteen texts, which are representative of the whole collection, are edited.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9789004344471
• ISBN-10: 9004344470
• Artikelnr.: 52439227

Autorenporträt

Siam Bhayro (PhD 2000, University College London) is Associate Professor in Early Jewish Studies at the University of Exeter. His research interests include the Bible, Semitic languages, medicine in the Christian and Islamic orient, and Jewish magic. James Nathan Ford (PhD 2003, 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. Dan Levene (PhD 2000, University College London) is Professor of Semitics and the History of Religion at the University of Southampton. His research interests include Semitic languages, popular belief systems in Ethiopia, and Jewish magic. Ortal-Paz Saar (PhD 2009, Tel Aviv University) is a cultural historian researching Judaism and its contacts with other religious traditions. Her publications focus on ancient and medieval Jewish magic, and she currently researches Jewish diasporic identity at Utrecht University.