Christians, Jews, and Magic in the Sasanian Realm: Between Confrontation and Cooperation
This essay focuses on one particular aspect of Jewish-Christian relations during the Sasanian period, namely various types of interaction between the two religious groups in the domain of magic. For that purpose, two distinctive bodies of textual evidence are examined: hagiographical literature prod...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Ruhr-Universität Bochum
2022
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| In: |
Entangled Religions
Year: 2022, Volume: 13, Issue: 3 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Iran (Antiquity)
/ Jews
/ Syriac churches
/ Relationship
/ Magic
/ History 224-651
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion AX Inter-religious relations BH Judaism CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations KBL Near East and North Africa KDF Orthodox Church TD Late Antiquity TF Early Middle Ages |
| Further subjects: | B
popular religion
B Sasanian empire B Syriac Christianity B Magic B Hagiography B magic bowls B Jewish-Christian relations |
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| Summary: | This essay focuses on one particular aspect of Jewish-Christian relations during the Sasanian period, namely various types of interaction between the two religious groups in the domain of magic. For that purpose, two distinctive bodies of textual evidence are examined: hagiographical literature produced by Syriac Christians, and Aramaic magic bowls, Jewish as well as Christian. Illuminating and complementing each other, the two corpora shed light on the dual dynamics of competition and cooperation between Jews and Christians in the field of popular religion. |
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| ISSN: | 2363-6696 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Entangled Religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.46586/er.13.2022.9873 |