“Like the Ministering Angels”: Ritual and Purity in Early Jewish Mysticism and Magic
Students of religion are aware that the same ritual act can have many meanings depending on the cultural context. As Walter Kaelber observes, “Viewed cross-culturally, a given ascetic form may have different, even opposite objectives.” Accordingly, the same detail may have entirely opposite meanings...
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University of Pennsylvania Press
1994
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AJS review
Year: 1994, Volume: 19, Issue: 2, Pages: 135-168 |
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