More magic
A new journal , devoted to the study of magic, is supposed to have started appearing, describing itself as "serious, rigorously peer-reviewed scholarly". Doesn't that sound like they're a little insecure? Even when neuroscience is supporting traditional claims about spirit possession?
Last week I found a Jewish amulet, from 19th century Eastern Europe, which used as one of its central magical texts, a verse in Psalms:
Then stood up Phinehas and executed judgment and so the plague was stayed.
Looking through the indices of published Jewish magical texts from the Geniza (Schafer's three volumes - apparently the fourth is on the way - and Schiffman and Swartz) but this verse doesn't seem to have been utilized there. Anyone know of any such use of this nice pasuk?
Last week I found a Jewish amulet, from 19th century Eastern Europe, which used as one of its central magical texts, a verse in Psalms:
Then stood up Phinehas and executed judgment and so the plague was stayed.
Looking through the indices of published Jewish magical texts from the Geniza (Schafer's three volumes - apparently the fourth is on the way - and Schiffman and Swartz) but this verse doesn't seem to have been utilized there. Anyone know of any such use of this nice pasuk?
posted by manuscriptboy | 5:30 PM
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Even when neuroscience is supporting traditional claims about spirit possession?
It doesn't. It basically says they're not meshugge, they're metoref.
/>title="amad (aw-mad') -- abide (behind), appoint, arise, cease, confirm, continue, dwell, be employed, endure, establish" href="http://original.biblebrowser.com/hebrew/5975.htm" target="_big">Then stood up
Ha!
It did appear. It is a web journal that will be fully available on line for free. And the tab labeled "sample issues" has the first issue.
I assume you also checked Naveh and Shaked.
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what's the difference between משוגע and מטורף?
None.
Why would you expect to find anything in schafer, shaked/naveh, or swartz/schiffman? You said it's a 19th c. EASTERN EUROPEAN text! Check 17th and 18th c. magical works. Hida's works have tons of stuff of this sort from all over europe and the near east. Check up books like sefer zechirah and the like.
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