Unveiling the hidden - anticipating the future : divinatory practices among Jews between Qumran and the modern period / by Josefina Rodr�iguez-Arribas, Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rodríguez Arribas, Josefina, editor.

Greenbaum, Dorian Gieseler, editor.

E.J. Brill (Firm)

Series:

Prognostication in history ; v. 5.

Prognostication in history, !x 2589-4404 ; volume 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Occultism--Religious aspects--Judaism--Congresses.

Occultism.

Divination--Congresses.

Divination.

Occultism--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 411 pages) : color illustrations.

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

1 Divination as Transaction: Rhetorical and Social Dimensions of Ancient Jewish Divination Texts p. 21 / Michael D. Swartz

2 Aramaic Calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Question of Divination p. 46 / Helen R. Jacobus

3 Jewish Oneiric Divination: From Daniel's Prayer to the Genizah Šeʾelat Ḥalom p. 101 / Alessia Bellusci

4 The Judeo-Arabic version of the Pitron Halomot ("Interpretation of Dreams") Attributed to Hai Gaon p. 140 / Blanco Villuendas Sabaté

5 If You Seek to Take Advice from the Torah, It Will Be Given-Jewish Bibliomancy through the Generations p. 161 / Shraga Bar-On

6 Judah bar Barzillai and His Role in Abraham bar Hiyya's Letter on Astrology p. 192 / Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas

7 Abraham bar Hiyya's Letter to Judah bar Barzillai-Translation p. 217 / Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas and Amos Geula

8 Maimonides on Magic, Astral Magic, and Experimental Science p. 261 / Dov Schwartz

9 On the Various Faces of Hebrew Physiognomy as a Prognostic Art in the Middle Ages p. 286 / Joseph Ziegler

10 Inscriptio characterum: Solomonic Magic and Paleography. With an Appendix on the Making of the Grimoire by Nicholas Pickwoad p. 311 / Charles Burnett.

Notes:

"This monograph emerged from a workshop, with most of its chapters stemming from the papers presented at it; others papers were requested and added later during the collection of the contributions in an effort to reflect as much as possible the catalogue of divinatory practices available and used among pre-modern Jews"--Introductory essay: Divination in Jewish cultures.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Electronic reproduction. Leiden, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 15, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version: Unveiling the hidden - anticipating the future

ISBN:

9789004445703

9004445706

Publisher Number:

99986747497

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.