Author

Publication

2013 - Brill, Leiden, Netherlands

Language

English

Word Count

99,000 words, Guess

Page Count

396 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC492/.2
  • LCCPJ5208.A2 S53 2013

Description

"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 its kind anywhere in the world. This volume presents editions of sixty-four 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 Ḥanina ben Dosa and Joshua bar Peraḥia. It is the first of a multi-volume project that aims to publish the entire Schøyen Collection"--

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Manuscripts in the Sch²yen Collection -- volume 20

Other Editions

  • Aramaic bowl spells: Jewish Babylonian Aramaic bowlsBrill2013-01-01

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