ISBN:
9780520386174
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 269 Seiten
Year of publication:
2022
Series Statement:
S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Keywords:
Babylonischer Talmud
;
Dämon
;
Demonology / Iraq / Babylonia
;
Rabbis / Iraq / Babylonia
;
Incantations, Assyro-Babylonian
;
Jewish demonology
;
Démonologie / Irak / Babylonie
;
Rabbins / Irak / Babylonie
;
Démonologie juive
;
HISTORY / Ancient / General
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies
;
Demonology
;
Incantations, Assyro-Babylonian
;
Jewish demonology
;
Rabbis
;
Middle East / Babylonia
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Babylonischer Talmud
;
Dämon
Abstract:
"The Babylonian Talmud is full of stories of demonic encounters and laws that attempt to regulate those encounters. In this book, Sara Ronis takes the reader on a journey across the rabbinic canon, exploring how Late Antique rabbis imagined, feared, and controlled demons. Ronis contextualizes the Talmud's thought within the rich cultural matrix of Sasanian Babylonia, putting rabbinic thinking in conversation with Sumerian, Akkadian, Ugaritic, Syriac Christian, Zoroastrian, and Second Temple Jewish texts about demons to delve into the interactive communal context in which the rabbis created boundaries between the human and the supernatural, and between themselves and other religious communities. Demons in the Details explores the wide range of approaches that the rabbis took to their neighbors' beliefs and practices, out of which they created a profoundly Jewish demonology"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Origin stories -- Classification matters -- How to avoid demonic dangers -- Legal demons -- Serving the Rabbinic project -- Exorcising demons
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