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.