Enchanting Rabbis: Contest Narratives between Rabbis and Magicians in Late Antiquity

"Sorcerers," said R. Yochanan, "contradict the heavenly household" and oppose the divine will. So begins one of the major Talmudic discussions of magic (bSan 67b). This conception of magic bestows tremendous power in the hands of the magician creating an autonomous realm where th...

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Main Author: Levinson, Joshua (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Penn Press 2010
In: The Jewish quarterly review
Year: 2010, Volume: 100, Issue: 1, Pages: 54-94
Further subjects:B Magic
B self-fashioning
B carnivalesque
B Bakhtin
B Knowledge
B Torah
B Heretics
B Power
B travel narratives
B Rabbinic Literature
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