Scribal Magic and its Rhetoric: Formal Patterns in Medieval Hebrew and Aramaic Incantation Texts from the Cairo Genizah

Full title
Scribal Magic and its Rhetoric: Formal Patterns in Medieval Hebrew and Aramaic Incantation Texts from the Cairo Genizah
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Reference type
Journal Article
Author(s)
Swartz, Michael D.
Year
1990
Journal / Book Title || Series Title
Harvard Theological Review
Volume
83
Issue / Series Volume
2
Abbreviated Series Name
HTR
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication
Cambridge
Pages
163-180
Work type
Essay/Monograph
Related keywords
Cairo Genizah
URL
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=781448…
Abstract

The study of medieval Judaism was revolutionized by the late S. D. Goitein with A Mediterranean Society, his multilayered study of the medieval Jewish communities in Egypt based on the documents from the Cairo Genizah. For while previously the Genizah had been mined for important rabbinic documents and for the history of the philosophers and Geonim, Goitein's research sought to provide an account of the religion and life of all classes of society.