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050 14 $aBF1622.J45$bS9 2018
050 4 $aBM700$b.S927 2018
100 1 $aSwartz, Michael D.,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe mechanics of providence :$bthe workings of ancient Jewish magic and mysticism /$cMichael D. Swartz
246 30 $aWorkings of ancient Jewish magic and mysticism
246 30 $aAncient Jewish magic and mysticism
264 1 $aTübingen :$bMohr Siebeck,$c[2018]
264 4 $c©2018
300 $aXVI, 333 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aTexts and studies in ancient Judaism =$aTexte und Studien zum antiken Judentum,$x0721-8753 ;$v172
500 $aRevised from previously published studies from 1992 to 2013. See Preface, page [ix] and Acknowledgements, pages xii-xiii.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 289-314) and indexes.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- Part I: Magic. Jewish Magic in Late Antiquity ; Scribal Magic and Its Rhetoric ; The Dead Sea Scrolls and Later Jewish Magic and Mysticism ; The Magical Jesus ; Magical Piety ; Magic and Sacrifice ; Understanding Ritual ; Verbal and Visual Aesthetics ; The Book of the Great Name -- Part II: Mysticism. Early Jewish Mysticism and the Visionary Tradition ; Merkavah Mysticism as Mysticism ; Three-Dimensional Philology ; Patterns of Mystical Prayer ; "Like the Ministering Angels" ; Hekhalot and Piyyut ; "The Seal of the Merkavah".
520 $a"The phenomena we call magic and mysticism had a profound effect on the shaping of Judaism in late antiquity. In this volume, Michael D. Swartz offers a wide-ranging study of the purposes, world-views, ritual dynamics, literary forms, and social settings of ancient Jewish magic and mysticism and their function in religion and history. Based on the author's studies over the past few decades, he proposes innovative methods for the study of these two phenomena. The author focuses especially on the rituals of early Jewish magic and mysticism, their social contexts, and the textual dimension of this complex literature. He also offers introductions to these phenomena. Michael D. Swartz argues that the authors of these texts employed intricate technologies, literary and artistic forms, and physical practices to negotiate between the values and world-views of their cultures and the texture of everyday life."--$cPublisher's website.
650 0 $aJewish magic.
650 0 $aMagic in rabbinical literature.
650 0 $aMysticism$xJudaism$xHistory.
650 0 $aCabala$xHistory.
650 0 $aJudaism$xHistory$yPost-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.
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650 7 $aJewish magic.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01730508
650 7 $aJudaism$xPost-exilic period (Judaism)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01907049
650 7 $aMagic in rabbinical literature.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01005499
650 7 $aMysticism$xJudaism.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01031646
648 7 $a586 B.C.-210 A.D.$2fast
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411628
830 0 $aTexte und Studien zum antiken Judentum ;$v172.$x0721-8753
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