Demons in the details: demonic discourse and Rabbinic culture in late antique Babylonia

The Babylonian Talmud is full of stories of demonic encounters, and it also includes many laws that attempt to regulate such encounters. In this book, Sara Ronis takes the reader on a journey across the rabbinic canon, exploring how late antique rabbis imagined, feared, and controlled demons. Ronis...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:  
Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. VerfasserIn: Ronis, Sara (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Subito Bestelldienst: Jetzt bestellen.
Verfügbarkeit prüfen: HBZ Gateway
Fernleihe:Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley, CA University of Californiarnia Press [2022]
In:Jahr: 2022
Rezensionen:[Rezension von: Ronis, Sara, Demons in the details : demonic discourse and Rabbinic culture in late antique Babylonia] (2023) (University, Tel Aviv)
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Babylonischer Talmud / Dämon (Motiv)
weitere Schlagwörter:B Jewish demonology
B HISTORY / Ancient / General
B Demonology (Iraq) (Babylonia)
B Rabbis (Iraq) (Babylonia)
B Incantations, Assyro-Babylonian
Online Zugang: Cover (Verlag)
Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
Parallele Ausgabe:Nicht-Elektronisch
Beschreibung
Zusammenfassung:The Babylonian Talmud is full of stories of demonic encounters, and it also includes many laws that attempt to regulate such encounters. In this book, Sara Ronis takes the reader on a journey across the rabbinic canon, exploring how late antique rabbis imagined, feared, and controlled demons. Ronis contextualizes the Talmud's thought within the rich cultural matrix of Sasanian Babylonia, placing rabbinic thinking in conversation with Sumerian, Akkadian, Ugaritic, Syriac Christian, Zoroastrian, and Second Temple Jewish texts about demons to delve into the interactive communal context in which the rabbis created boundaries between the human and the supernatural, and between themselves and other religious communities. Demons in the Details explores the wide range of ways that the rabbis participated in broader discussions about beliefs and practices with their neighbors, out of which they created a profoundly Jewish demonology
ISBN:0520386183
Zugangseinschränkungen:Restricted Access
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1525/9780520386181