Aramaic Bowl Spells: Jewish Babylonian Aramaic Bowls Volume One (magical And Religious Literature Of Late Antiquity)
by Shaul Shaked /
2013 / English / PDF
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This volume presents editions of sixty-four Jewish Aramaic incantation bowls from the Schøyen Collection, with accompanying introductions, translations, philological notes, photographs and indices, relating to the magical divorce and the wonder-working sages anina ben Dosa and Joshua bar Peraia. The magic bowls in the Schøyen Collection form part of a vast and unique collection of written documents on various surfaces assembled from many parts of the globe and representing a large number of cultures, languages, religions, and periods.
