מקומראן לקהיר: תולדותיה וגלגוליה של נוסחה לגירוש שדים

The number of non-canonical Second Temple period texts that survived
|into the Middle Ages is extremely small. The present study traces a rare
|example of the transmission of a Jewish exorcistic formula from Second
|Temple period literature to the Cairo Genizah. This formula is first attested
|in 11Q11, a scroll containing exorcistic psalms attributed to David and
|perhaps also to Solomon. It re-emerges more than a thousand years later,
|in the Genizah fragment T(aylor)–S(chechter) K 1.123, and in between,
|it surfaces in several Jewish incantation bowls from Sasanian Babylonia.
|As it was not codified in any canonical text or transmitted in rabbinic
|literature, its survival probably attests to its continuous use by Jewish
|exorcists during the Second Temple period, Late Antiquity, and the Middle
|Ages.