Magic and language : perspectives on Jewish and Christian magic in Early Modern Europe / edited by Yuval Harari, Gerold Necker and Marco Frenschkowski.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harari, Yuval N., editor.

Necker, Gerold, editor.

Frenschkowski, Marco, editor.

Goldstein-Goren International Center for Jewish Thought (Beersheba, Israel)

Series:

Studies in magic and Kabbalah ; v. 1.

Studies in magic and Kabbalah, 2943-8780 ; volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish magic.

Mysticism--Judaism.

Mysticism.

Magic--Europe--History.

Magic.

Europe.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

xvi, 292 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Perspectives on Jewish and Christian magic in Early Modern Europe

Place of Publication:

Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2024.

Summary:

Magic and Language is dedicated to phenomena, texts, and writers with magical affiliations and their interactions with reality, daily life, cultural images, language, ritual, theology, and literature. The sources discussed primarily come from the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Although the main focus of this volume is oriented towards the Jewish frame of reference, it also engages with various Christian views as well as with intercultural interactions in the form of the exchange of perceptions, concepts, and practices in the field. The relationship between "magic and language"--that is, the connection between what is essentially a system of ritual technology and its expression in theoretical writing or as a performative act--is particularly complex and multilayered. It encompasses the very verbal essence of the magic act and its linguistic components, differences between verbal and nonverbal acts, performative speech and writing as opposed to, for example, the listing of information in manuals of know-how, and the coding of language using non-semantic elements such as seals and other performative diagrams. All these aspects and more are the focus of well-known experts and young researchers in Jewish or Christian magic and Kabbalah in this volume.

Contents:

Renaissance manuscript of Jewish magic / Gideon Bohak

Between Safed and Ancona : text and paratext in two sixteenth-century Jewsih manuscripts of magic and divination / Yuval Harari

Magic problems : Francesco Zorzi's theory of occult operations / Saverio Campanini

Hebrew divine names into Latin and Italian : Shiv'ah Shemot and other samples from Egidio da Viterbo's workshop / Emma Abate

Moses Zacuto and the Kabbalah of divine names Uri Safrai and eliezer Baumgarten

R. Moses Zacuto's correspondence and the transmission fo magical knowledge / Maximilian de Molière

Magic in lurianic contexts : aspects of affinity and diffusion / Gerold Necker

Hebrew "Solomonic magic" : the case of the Ydea Salomonis / Gal Sofer

Speaking biblically : Unio Magica and the magician as biblical figure / Dorothea M. Salzer

Unveiling the secrets of practical Kabbalah : Gottfried's German translation of Sefer Shimmush Tehillim or "Book of the magical use of psalm's / Bill Rebiger

Collecting and assessing magical books : The sixth and seventh books of Moses / Michael Siefener

Jews, Judaism, fantasy Judaism in German magical texts and texts on magic mainly from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century : some basic observations / Marco Frenschkowski.

Notes:

"In collaboration with the Goldstein-Goren International Center for Jewish Thought at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-280) and indexes.

Other Format:

Online version: Magic and language.

ISBN:

9783447122634

3447122633

OCLC:

1460658691

Publisher Number:

9783447122634