Demons in the details: demonic discourse and Rabbinic culture in late antique Babylonia
Origin stories -- Classification matters -- How to avoid demonic dangers -- Legal demons -- Serving the Rabbinic project -- Exorcising demons.
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oakland, California
University of Californiarnia Press
[2022]
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| In: | Year: 2022 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Ronis, Sara, Demons in the details : demonic discourse and Rabbinic culture in late antique Babylonia] (2023) (University, Tel Aviv)
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Talmûd bavlî
/ Demon (Motif)
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| IxTheo Classification: | BH Judaism |
| Further subjects: | B
Jewish demonology
B SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies B Demonology (Iraq) (Babylonia) B Rabbis (Iraq) (Babylonia) B Incantations, Assyro-Babylonian B Ancient / Generals / HISTORY |
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| Parallel Edition: | Electronic
Electronic |
| Summary: | Origin stories -- Classification matters -- How to avoid demonic dangers -- Legal demons -- Serving the Rabbinic project -- Exorcising demons. "The Babylonian Talmud is full of stories of demonic encounters and laws that attempt to regulate those encounters. In this book, Sara Ronis takes the reader on a journey across the rabbinic canon, exploring how Late Antique rabbis imagined, feared, and controlled demons. Ronis contextualizes the Talmud's thought within the rich cultural matrix of Sasanian Babylonia, putting rabbinic thinking in conversation with Sumerian, Akkadian, Ugaritic, Syriac Christian, Zoroastrian, and Second Temple Jewish texts about demons to delve into the interactive communal context in which the rabbis created boundaries between the human and the supernatural, and between themselves and other religious communities. Demons in the Details explores the wide range of approaches that the rabbis took to their neighbors' beliefs and practices, out of which they created a profoundly Jewish demonology"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0520386175 |