Magic in the ancient Greco-Roman and ancient Jewish worlds
Abstract
In Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, Radcliffe Edmonds provides us with a new etic framework for understanding ancient magic, but one steeped in the emic perspectives of the actual practitioners and clients as preserved in the literary, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence. In this paper I examine Edmonds’s findings in relation to the ancient Jewish magical and mystical traditions found mainly in Sefer HaRazim, “The Book of the Mysteries,” a late-antique ritual handbook written in Hebrew.
Citation
Davila , J R 2022 , ' Magic in the ancient Greco-Roman and ancient Jewish worlds ' , Gnosis , vol. 7 , no. 1 , pp. 81-91 . https://doi.org/10.1163/2451859x-00701005
Publication
Gnosis
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
2451-8581Type
Journal article
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