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Rodríguez Arribas, Josefina - Gieseler Greenbaum, Dorian (eds.), Unveiling the Hidden—Anticipating the Future: Divinatory Practices Among Jews Between Qumran and the Modern Period, Leiden - Boston, Brill (Prognostication in History, 5), 2021, xviii + 411 pp.
- Resum
- In Unveiling the Hidden—Anticipating the Future: Divinatory Practices Among Jews Between Qumran and the Modern Period, Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas and Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum collect ten studies based on primary sources ranging from Qumran to the modern period and covering Europe and the Mediterranean basin. The studies show Jews practising divination (astrology, bibliomancy, physiognomy, dream requests, astral magic, etc.) and implementing the study and practice of the prognostic arts in ways that allowed Jews to make them "Jewish," by avoiding any conflict with Jewish law or halakhah. These studies focus on the Jewish components of this divination, providing specific firsthand details about the practices and their practitioners within their cultural and intellectual contexts—as well as their fears, wishes, and anxieties—using ancient scrolls and medieval manuscripts in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Judaeo-Arabic.
Contents:
* Introductory Essay: Divination in Jewish Cultures—Some Reflections on the Subject of This Book / Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas · 1–20
* Chapter 1. Divination as Transaction: Rhetorical and Social Dimensions of Ancient Jewish Divination Texts / Michael D. Swartz · 21–45
* Chapter 2. Aramaic Calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Question of Divination / Helen R. Jacobus · 46–100
* Chapter 3. Jewish Oneiric Divination: From Daniel's Prayer to the Genizah Šeʾilat Ḥalom / Alessia Bellusci · 101–139
* Chapter 4. The Judeo-Arabic Version of the Pitron Ḥalomot (“Interpretation of Dreams”) Attributed to Ḥai Gaon / Blanca Villuendas Sabaté · 140–160
* Chapter 5. If You Seek to Take Advice from the Torah, It Will Be Given: Jewish Bibliomancy through the Generations / Shraga Bar-On · 161–191
* Chapter 6. Judah bar Barzillai and His Role in Abraham bar Ḥiyya's Letter on Astrology / Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas · 192–216
* Chapter 7. Abraham bar Ḥiyya's Letter to Judah bar Barzillai—Translation / Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas & Amos Geula · 217–260
* Chapter 8. Maimonides on Magic, Astral Magic, and Experimental Science / Dov Schwartz · 261–285
* Chapter 9. On the Various Faces of Hebrew Physiognomy as a Prognostic Art in the Middle Ages / Joseph Ziegler · 286–310
* Chapter 10. Inscriptio characterum: Solomonic Magic and Paleography
With an Appendix on the Making of the Grimoire by Nicholas Pickwoad / Charles Burnett · 311–332
* Bibliography / Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas & Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum
* Indexes
- Matèries
- Màgia - Endevinació
Hebraisme
- Notes
- Informació de l'editor
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