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The mechanics of providence : the workings of ancient Jewish magic and mysticism
- Title
- The mechanics of providence : the workings of ancient Jewish magic and mysticism / Michael D. Swartz.
- Author
- Swartz, Michael D.
- Publication
- Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, [2018]
- ©2018
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- Description
- xvi, 333 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "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."--
- Series Statement
- Texts and studies in ancient Judaism = Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum, 0721-8753 ; 172
- Uniform Title
- Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum ; 172.
- Alternative Title
- Workings of ancient Jewish magic and mysticism
- Ancient Jewish magic and mysticism
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Note
- Revised from previously published studies from 1992 to 2013. See Preface, page [ix] and Acknowledgements, pages xii-xiii.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-314) and indexes.
- Contents
- Introduction -- 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".
- Call Number
- JFE 19-496
- ISBN
- 9783161550027
- 3161550021
- OCLC
- 1059260417
- Author
- Swartz, Michael D., author.
- Title
- The mechanics of providence : the workings of ancient Jewish magic and mysticism / Michael D. Swartz.
- Publisher
- Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, [2018]
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Texts and studies in ancient Judaism = Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum, 0721-8753 ; 172Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum ; 172.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-314) and indexes.
- Chronological Term
- 586 B.C.-210 A.D.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-496