Unveiling the hidden - anticipating the future: divinatory practices among Jews between Qumran and the modern period
Unveiling the Hidden--Anticipating the Future investigates the Jewish components of Jewish divination, showing practitioners and their practices within their cultural and intellectual contexts, along with their fears, wishes, and anxieties, drawing from original sources in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Judae...
| Subtitles: | Divinatory practices among Jews between Qumran and the modern period |
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| Contributors: | ; |
| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston
BRILL
2021
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| In: | Year: 2021 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Unveiling the Hidden - Anticipating the Future: Divinatory Practices Among Jews Between Qumran and the Modern Period] (2022) (Bergmann, Claudia D.)
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| Series/Journal: | Prognostication in History Ser.
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Judaism
/ Divination
/ Occultism
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| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Electronic books B Conference program 2015 (Erlangen) |
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| Summary: | Unveiling the Hidden--Anticipating the Future investigates the Jewish components of Jewish divination, showing practitioners and their practices within their cultural and intellectual contexts, along with their fears, wishes, and anxieties, drawing from original sources in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Judaeo-Arabic. Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Figures and Tables -- Tables for the Transliteration of Hebrew and Arabic Characters -- Notes on the Contributors -- Introductory Essay: Divination in Jewish Cultures-Some Reflections on the Subject of This Book (Rodríguez-Arribas) -- Chapter 1. Divination as Transaction: Rhetorical and Social Dimensions of Ancient Jewish Divination Texts (Swartz) -- Chapter 2. Aramaic Calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Question of Divination (Jacobus) -- Chapter 3. Jewish Oneiric Divination: From Daniel's Prayer to the Genizah Šeʾilat Ḥalom (Bellusci) -- Chapter 4. The Judeo-Arabic Version of the Pitron Ḥalomot ("Interpretation of Dreams") Attributed to Ḥai Gaon (Villuendas Sabaté) -- Chapter 5. If You Seek to Take Advice from the Torah, It Will Be Given: Jewish Bibliomancy through the Generations (Bar-On) -- Chapter 6. Judah bar Barzillai and His Role in Abraham bar Ḥiyya's Letter on Astrology (Rodríguez-Arribas) -- Chapter 7. Abraham bar Ḥiyya's Letter to Judah bar Barzillai-Translation (Rodríguez-Arribas and Geula) -- Chapter 8. Maimonides on Magic, Astral Magic, and Experimental Science (Schwartz) -- Chapter 9. On the Various Faces of Hebrew Physiognomy as a Prognostic Art in the Middle Ages (Ziegler) -- Chapter 10. Inscriptio characterum: Solomonic Magic and Paleography (Burnett) -- Bibliography -- Index of Quotations and Citations of Biblical, Pseudepigrapha, Qumran, and Rabbinic Texts -- Index of Names (People, Places, and Texts) -- Index of Subjects. |
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| ISBN: | 9004445706 |