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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rodriguez Arribas, Josefina, author.

Greenbaum, Dorian Gieseler, author.

Series:

Prognostication in history ; Volume 5.

Prognostication in History ; Volume 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Occultism.

Divination--Congresses.

Divination.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

Summary:

"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. Contributors include Michael D. Swartz, Helen R. Jacobus, Alessia Bellusci, Blanca Villuendas Sabaté, Shraga Bar-On, Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas, Amos Geula, Dov Schwartz, Joseph Ziegler, and Charles Burnett"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

List of Figures and Tables

Table for the Transliteration of the Hebrew Characters

Table for the Transliteration of the Arabic Characters

Notes on the Contributors

Introductory Essay: Divination in Jewish Cultures-Some Reflections on the Subject of This Book

Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas

1 Divination as Transaction: Rhetorical and Social Dimensions of Ancient Jewish Divination Texts

Michael D. Swartz

2 Aramaic Calendars and the Question of Divination in Late Second Temple Judaism

Helen R. Jacobus

3 Jewish Oneiric Divination: From Daniel's Prayer to the Genizah Šeʾelat Ḥalom

Alessia Bellusci

4 Dream Interpretation Reinterpreted in the Light of Judaeo-Arabic Fragments Attributed to Ḥai Gaon

Blanca Villuendas Sabaté

5 If You Seek to Take Advice from the Torah, It Will Be Given -Jewish Bibliomancy through the Generations

Shraga Bar-On

6 Judah bar Barzillai and His Role in Abraham bar Ḥiyya's Letter on Astrology

7 Abraham bar Ḥiyya's Letter to Judah bar Barzillai-Translation

Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas and Amos Geula

8 Maimonides on Magic, Astral Magic and Experimental Science

Dov Schwartz

9 On the Various Faces of Hebrew Physiognomy as a Prognostic Art in the Middle Ages

Joseph Ziegler

10 Inscriptio characterum : Solomonic Magic and Palaeography. With an Appendix on the Making of the Grimoire by Nicholas Pickwoad

Charles Burnett

Bibliography

Index of Names (People, Places, and Texts)

Index of Quotations and Citations of Biblical, Pseudepigrapha, Qumran, and Rabbinic Texts

Index of Subjects.

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 index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-44570-6

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004445703 DOI