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Continuity and Innovation in the Magical Tradition

Continuity and Innovation in the Magical Tradition

Bohak, Gideon
Harari, Yuval
Shaked, Shaul

Hardcover

OccultIslamJudaism

ISBN10: 9004203516
ISBN13: 9789004203518
Publisher: Brill
Published: Jun 22 2011
Pages: 390
Weight: 1.61
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.25
Language: English
This volume brings together thirteen studies by as many experts in the study of one or more ancient or medieval magical traditions, from ancient Mesopotamia and Pharaonic and Greco-Roman Egypt to the Greek world, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It lays special emphasis on the recurrence of similar phenomena in magical texts as far apart as the Akkadian cuneiform tablets and an Arabic manuscript bought in Egypt in the late-twentieth century. Such similarities demonstrate to what extent many different cultures share a magical logic which is strikingly identical, and in particular they show the recurrence of certain phenomena when magical practices are transmitted in written form and often preserve, adopt and adapt much older textual units.

Contributors include: Tzvi Abusch, Joachim Friedrich Quack, Jacco Dieleman, Fritz Graf, Christopher Faraone, Ithamar Gruenwald, Shaul Shaked, Dan Levene, Kocku von Stuckrad, Reimund Leicht, Yuval Harari, Gideon Bohak, and Alexander Fodor.

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