BOHAC
2009 (7SDB2019)
Gideon Bohak
Currents in Biblical Literature, nr. 8, 2009, pp. 107-150. (pdf.)
Abstract
Recent years have seen a
steady rise in the scholarly interest in Jewishmagic. The present paper seeks
to take stock of what has already beendone, to explain how further study of
Jewish magical texts and artifactsmight make major contributions to the study
of Judaism as a whole, andto provide a blueprint for further progress in
this field. Its main claimis that the number of unedited and even uncharted
primary sources forthe study of Jewish magic is staggering, and that these
sources mustserve as the starting point for any serious study of the Jewish
magicaltradition from antiquity to the twenty-first century. Such a study must both
compare the Jewish magical texts and practices of each historical period with
those of the contemporaneous non-Jewish world, and thustrace processes of
cross-cultural contacts and influences, and comparethe Jewish magical texts and
practices of one period with those ofanother, so as to detect processes of
inner-Jewish continuity and trans-mission. Finally, such a study must flesh out
the place of magical prac-tices and practitioners within the Jewish society of
different periods,and within different Jewish communities.
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