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- Title
THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MAGIC Two Manuscripts from the Alliance Israelite Universelle's Genizah Collection.
- Authors
ABATE, EMMA
- Abstract
This article is intended to introduce the reader to the author's research on medieval Jewish magic, which is based on the analysis of documents from the Cairo Genizah held at the Alliance Israélite Universelle library in Paris. An amulet (ms. VI C 21) and a text of magical recipes (ms. VI C 6) are examined and compared with other texts from the same collection in order to show the main features of the magical tradition and its links with both Greco-Egyptian magic and Jewish mystical trends.
- Subjects
CAIRO (Egypt); EGYPT; JEWISH magic; MAGIC; SUPERSTITION; ZAR; GENIZAH; READER, The (Book : Hest)
- Publication
Henoch, 2012, Vol 34, Issue 2, p367
- ISSN
0393-6805
- Publication type
Article