RT Article
T1 An Aramaic Amulet for Winning a Case in a Court of Law
JF Jewish studies quarterly
VO 26
IS 1
SP 1
OP 16
A1 Shaked, Shaul 1933-2021
A1 Elitzur-Leiman, Rivka
LA English
PB Mohr Siebeck
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1682020495
AB An unusually long text of a Jewish-Aramaic amulet of the sixth or seventh century, inscribed on a sheet of gold, is the topic of this paper. Its language is close to Jewish Palestinian Aramaic and to the late Targums. Its vocabulary consists of a number of rare words and some peculiar spellings. It is copied with some errors (e. g., mistaking the letters dalet and resh) from a book of magic recipes, and includes the title that accompanied the text, »For all authorities,« and some instruction for its use. The goal of the spell is to reach a successful issue in litigation. The text reflects some typical Jewish notions and expressions, but it also refers to Shamash (or Shamish), a solar deity, and employs divine attributes that are rarely if ever employed in Jewish texts. Such oddities may be explained by its provenance in the Balkan area.
K1 Jewish-Aramaic amulet
K1 Palestinian Aramaic
K1 Litigation
K1 magic recipe
K1 solar deity
DO 10.1628/jsq-2019-0002