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

Journal / Book Title || Series Title: 
Harvard Theological Review
Volume: 
83
Issue / Series Volume: 
2
Abbreviated Series Name: 
HTR
Place of Publication: 
Cambridge
Publisher: 
Cambridge University Press
Pages: 
163-180
Work type: 
Essay/Monograph
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.

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http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=7814489&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0017816000005617
Record number: 
101 766