Amulets

 

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Books

 

Ahrens, W., Hebraische Amulette mit Magischen Zahlenquadraten (Berlin: Lamm, 1916)

 

Brochardt, Isaak Salomon, Auslegung oder apodiktische Wahrheit eines kabbakistischen Amuletts (Berlin: Auf Kostne des Verfassers, 1831)

 

Budge, E.A. Willis, Amulets and Talismans (New Hyde Park, NY: Univeristy Books, 1968)

 

Danon, Abraham, Amulettes Sabbatiennes (Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1910)

 

Davis, Eli, Hebrew Amulets: Biblical, Medical, General (Jerusalem: Makhon le-mada`e ha-Yahadut, 1992) [Hebrew]

 

Eybeschvetz, Jonathan, Sefer Luhot `edut: kolel kitve kodesh meha-gedolim…veha  ge’onim ‘aherim adire ha-Torah `al orot ha-mahloket ‘asher haitah be-`inyan ha kemi`ot (Varsha: Ba-Defus Shel Y. Lebensohn, 1885)

 

Itzhaky, Itzhak, Lahash ve-Kema`a (Jerusalem: Keter, c1975, 1995)

 

Kotansky, Roy, Greek Magical Amulets: The Inscribed Gold, Silver, Copper, and Bronze   Lamellae Part 1: Published Texts of Known Provenance (Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1994-)

 

Maizlish, Sha'ul, Ani' Ma'amin: Kami`ot, Segulot, Minhagim (Tel Aviv: Yediot Aharonoth, 1996)

 

Nahmias, Benny, Hamsah: keme`ot, emunot, minhagim u-refuah `amamit ba-`ir ha `Atikah (Tel Aviv: Modan, 1996)

 

Rodkinson, Michael L., History of Amulets, Charms, and Talismans: A Historical Investigation into their Nature and Origin (NY: 1893)

 

Rouach, David, Les Talismans: magie et tradition Juives (Paris: A Michel, 1989)

 

Schrire, T., Hebrew Amulets: their Decipherment and Interpretation (London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1966)

 

Articles in Periodicals and Chapters in Books

 

Angerstorfer, Andreas, “Zwei Hebraische Amulette aus Holzeriet (Bohmen) aus Christlicher Production,” Schrifter des Frantische-Schweig-Museums (1998), pp. 23-27

 

Avishur, Yitzhak, "The Second Amulet Incantation from Arslan Tash," in Yitzhak Avishur (ed.) Phoenician Inscriptions and the Bible (Tel Aviv - Jaffa: Archaeoloical Center Publication, 2000), pp. 225-243

 

Bar-Ilan, Meir, “The Writing of Torah Scrolls, Tefillin, Mezuzot, and Amulets on Deer   Hide, “ Beit Mikra 102 (1985), 375-381 [Heb]

 

Barkay, G., “The Divine Name Found in Jerusalem,” BAR 9:2 (1983), 14-19

 

Barkay, G., “The Priestly Blessing on Silver Plaques from Ketef Hinnom in Jerusalem,”  Tel Aviv 19 (1992), 139-194

 

Barkay, G., “The Priestly Blessing on the Ketef Hinnom Plaques,” CATHEDRA 52 (1989), 37-76 [Heb]

 

Blau, L., “Amulets,” Jewish Encyclopedia (NY: Funk & Wagnells, 1901-1905) vol 1, pp. 546-550

 

“Biblical Passage Deciphered from 2,600-Year-Old Amulet,” New York Times June 21 (1986), 50

 

Bohak, Gideon, “A Note on the Choubis Gem from Tel Dor,” IEJ 47 (1997), 255-256

 

Bonner, C., "The Story of Jonah on a Magical Amulet," HTR 41 (1941), 31-37

 

Casanowicz, I.M., “Jewish Amulets in the United Sates National Museum,” JAOS 36 (1917), 154-167

 

Casanowicz, I.M., “The Jewish Amulets in the United States National Museum,” JAOS 37 (1917), 43-56

 

Dauphin, Claudine, "A Graeco-Roman Magical Amulet from Mazzuvah," Atiqot 22 (1993), 145-147

 

Davis, Eli, "Cabbalistic Amulets," South Africa Jewish Times Annual (1980)

 

Davis, Eli, "Hebrew Amulets," Ariel 109 (1978), 45-46

 

Davis, Eli, "Hebrew Medical Amulets," Adler Musuem Bulletin 19 (1982), 19-20

 

Davis, Eli, "The Psalms in Hebrew Medieval Amulets," VT 42 (1992), 173-178

 

Diaz, Estaban Fernand, “A Charm for a Traveler,” in Ulf Haxen, Hanne Trautner Kromann & Karen Lisa Goldschmidt Salamon (eds.), Jewish Studies in a New Europe: Proceedings of the Fifth World Congress of Jewish Studies in Copenhagen 1994 (Copenhagen: C.A.Reitzel, 1998), pp. 184-198

 

Furst, Rachel, "Red Strings: a Modern Case of Amulets and Charms," in Halpern, Micah D., and Safrai, Chana (eds.), Jewish Legal Writings by Women (Jerusalem: Urim, 1998), pp. 259-277

 

Gaster, M., “Charms and Amulets (Jewish),” HERE 111 (1910), pp. 451-455

 

Gaster, Moses, “A Note on ‘A Hebrew Amulet’,” in Moses Gaster, Studies and Texts in Folklore, Magic, and Medieval Romance, Hebrew Apocrypha, and Samaritan Archeaology [3 Vols.] (London: 1928) [Reprint NY, NY: Ktav, 1971], pp. 365-368 [=PSBA 32 (1910), 109-112]

 

Gaster, Moses, “Samaritan Phylacteries and Amulets,” in Moses Gaster, Studies and Texts in Folklore, Magic, and Medieval Romance, Hebrew Apocrypha, and Samaritan Archeaology [3 Vols.] (London: 1928) [Reprint NY, NY: Ktav, 1971], pp. 109-130

 

Gaster, Moses, “Two Thousand Years of a Charm Against the Child-Stealing Witch,” in Moses Gaster, Studies and Texts in Folklore, Magic, and Medieval Romance, Hebrew Apocrypha, and Samaritan Archeaology [3 Vols.] (London: 1928) [Reprint NY, NY: Ktav, 1971], vol. 2, pp. 1005-1038

 

Hamburger, Anit, "A Greco-Samaritan Amulet from Ceasarea," IEJ 9:1 (1959), 43-45 [=Israel Exploration Journal Reader vol 1. (NY: Ktav Publishing House, 1981),  pp. 1-3]

 

Kaplan, J., “A Samaritan Amulet from Corinth,” IEJ 30 (1980), 196-198

 

Kaplan, J., “A Second Samaritan Amulet from Tel Aviv,” EI 10 (1971), 255-257 [Heb] [=Israel Exploration Journal Reader vol 1. (NY: Ktav Publishing House, 1981),  pp. 17-20]

 

Kaplan, J., “Two Samaritan Amulets,” IEJ 17 (1967), 158-160 [=Yediot 30 (1966), pp. 239-244 [Heb] [=Israel Exploration Journal Reader vol 1. (NY: Ktav Publishing House, 1981), pp. 4-9]

 

Kotansky, Roy, "Two Inscribed Jewish Amulets from Syria," IEJ 41 (1991), 267-281

 

Kotansky, Roy, “An Inscribed Copper Amulet from Evron," Atiqot 20 (1991), 81-87

 

Kotansky, Roy, “The Chnoubis Gem from Tel Dor,” IEJ 47 (1997), 257-260

 

Kotansky, Roy, “The Deposit in Good,” HTR 87 (1994), 267-369

 

Kotansky, Roy, Naveh, Joseph, & Shaked, Shaul, "A Greek-Aramaic Silver Amulet from Egypt in the Ashmolean Museum," Le Museon 105 (1992), 5-26

 

Lowy, S., “A Note on the Samaritan Amulets Yat,” IEJ 25 (1975), 250-253 [=Israel Exploration Journal Reader vol 1. (NY: Ktav Publishing House, 1981), pp. 21-26

 

McCollough, C. Thomas, "An Aramaic Amulet from Sepphoris," Atiqot 28 (1996), 161-165

 

McCollough, C. Thomas, "Magic and Medicine in Byzantine Galilee: A Bronze Amulet  from Sepphoris," in Douglas R. Edwards and C. Thomas McCollough (eds.),  Archaeology and the Galilee: Texts and Contexts in the Graeco-Roman and Byzantine Periods (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1997), pp. 143-149

 

Millik, J.T., "Une Amulette Judeo-Arameene," Bib 48 (1967), 450-451

 

Montgomery, James, "Some Early Amulets from Palestine," JAOS 31 (1911), 272-281

 

Montgomery, James, “A Jewish Mortuary Amulet,” JAOS 38 (1918), 140-141

 

Nash, W.L., “A Hebrew Amulet Against Disease,” PSBA 28 (1906), 182-184

 

Naveh, Joseph, "Amulets and Illnesses in Antiquity," in Illness and Healing in Ancient  Times (Haifa, Israel: Reuben and Edith Hecht Museum, 1996), pp. 24-28

 

Naveh, Joseph, “A Recently Discovered Palestinian Jewish Amulet,” in M. Skoloff (ed.), Arameans, Aramaic, and the Aramaic Literary Tradition (Ramat-Gan: Bar Ilan University Press, 1983), pp. 81-88

 

Naveh, Joseph, “An Ancient Amulet of a Modern Forgery?” CBQ 44:2 (1982), 282-284

 

Naveh, Joseph, “An Aramaic Amulet From Bar`am,” in Alan J. Peck and Jacob Neusner (eds.), Judaism in Late Antiquity (Leiden: Brill, 2001), 179-185

 

Ovadia, A. & Wehrmbrand, M., “Qame`a,” Encyclopedia Hebraica (Jerusalem: 1956-7), pp. 29:817-819

 

Pilcher, E.J., “A Hebrew Amulet,” PSBA 32 (1910), 125-126

 

Puech, Emile, “Une Nouvelle Amulette Samaritaine,” in M. Heltzer et al. (eds.), Studies in the Archaeology and History of Ancient Israel (Haifa: Haifa University Press, 1993), pp. 153-163

 

Pummer, R., “Samaritan Amulets from the Roman Byzantine Period and their Wearers,” RB 94 (1987), pp. 251-253

 

Raffaeli, S., “A Recently Discovered Smaritan Charm,” JPOS 1 (1920-1921), 143-144

 

Rahmani, L.Y., "A Magic Amulet from Nahariyya," HTR 74 (1981), 387-390

 

Reich, Ronny, “A Samaritan Amulet from Nahariya,” RB 92 (1985), 383-388

 

Rosen-Ayalon, Myriam, "A Judeo-Persian Amulet," in Shaul Shaked and Amnon Netzer (eds.), Irano-Judaica II; Studies Relating to Jewish Contacts with Persian Culture Throughout the Ages (Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute, 1990), pp. 119-216

 

Ross, Barry, "Notes on Some Jewish Amulets: 'ayin ha-ra' and the Priestly Blessing," JAGNES 2:2 (1991), 34-40

 

Rubincam, David P., "Does a Jewish Amulet Commemorate the Conjunction of 2 B.C.?" Skeptical Inquirer 17:1 (1992), 78-80

 

Sasson, David S., “Another Note on ‘A Hebrew Amulet’,” PSBA 32 (1910), 234-236

 

Scholem, Gershom G., “On an Amulet of R. Jonathan Eibenschutz and his Interpretation,” Tarbiz 13 (1941-2), 226-244

 

Schrire, T., "Samaritan Amulets, yat and Exodus 14:20," IEJ 22:2-3 (1972), 153-155   [=Israel Exploration Journal Reader vol 1. (NY: Ktav Publishing House, 1981),  pp. 14-16]

 

Schrire, T., “A Kabbalistic Samaritan Amulet,” IEJ 20 (1970), 109-112 [=Israel Exploration Journal Reader vol 1. (NY: Ktav Publishing House, 1981), pp. 10-13]

 

Schrire, T., “Amulet,” Encyclopedia Judaica (Jerusalem: Keter, 1971), vol. 11, pp. 906-915

 

Schwab, M. & Reifenberg, Adolf, “A Judeo-Greek Amulet from Assyria,” 12 (1945-1946), 68-72

 

Schwab, M., "Une Amulette Judeo-Amrameene" Journal Asiatique [2nd series] 7 (1906), 5-17

 

Sperber, D., “GYLTWRY—Ligaturae: Something about Amulets in the Talmudic Period,” Bar-Ilan Yearbook 13 (1976), 125-131 [Heb]

 

Spoer, H.N., "Notes on Jewish Amulets," JBL 23 (1904), 87-105

 

Stern, E. & Sharon, I., “Tel Dor, 1993: Preliminary Report,” IEJ 45 (1995), 26-36

 

Tsereteli, Konstantin G., "An Aramaic Amulet from Mtskheta," Ancient Civilization from Scythia to Siberia 3:2-3 (1996), 218-240

 

Veltri, G., “Jewish Tradition in Greek Amulets,” Bulletin of Judeo-Greek Studies 18 (1996), 33-47

 

Vincent, H., “Amulette judeo-arameene,” RBI ns 5 (1908), 382-394

 

Weyl, R., and Rosner, I., "Investigating the Significance of a Judeo-Christian Ring Amulet with Talismanic Attributes," REJ 152 (1993), 439-448

 

Yardeni, Ada, "Remarks on the Priestly Blessing on Two Ancient Amulets from Jerusalem," VT 41 (1991), 176-185

 

Youtie, Herbert C., “A Gnostic Amulet with an Aramaic Inscription,” JAOS 50 (1930), 214-270       

 

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