"Invoke at any time ...": apotropaic texts and belief in demons in the literature of the Qumran community
Apocryphal psalms and ’sectarian’ apotropaic compositions from Qumran refer regularly to traditions about the origin and characteristic of evil spirits. A systematic elaboration of these traditions can be found in two comprehensive pseudepigraphic works, in the so-called Ethiopic book of Enoch (1En...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Herder
2008
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Biblische Notizen
Year: 2008, Volume: 137, Pages: 41-74 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Dead Sea scrolls, Qumran Scrolls
/ Demon
/ Defensive magic
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| IxTheo Classification: | AZ New religious movements HD Early Judaism NBH Angelology; demonology |
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Dead Sea Scrolls
B Demon B Magic B Book of Jubilees B Enoch B Qumran Community |