Demons, Demonology, & Exorcism

 

 

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General

 

Books

 

Chajes, J.H., Spirit Possession and the Construction of Early Modern Jewish Religiosity (PhD: Yale University, 1999), UMI 9930979

 

Eshel, Esther, ha-Emunah be-Shedi, be-Erets-Yisra’el bi-yeme ha-Bayit ha-Sheni (Israel: 1999) [Demonology in Palestine during the Second Temple Period]

 

Klar, B. (ed.), Megilat Ahimaaz, 2nd ed. (Jerusalem: 1974)

 

Kohut, A., Uber die Judische Angelologie und Daemonologie in ihren Abhangigkeit von Parsimus (Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1866)

 

McCasland, S.V., By the Finger of God: Demon Possession and Exorcism in Early Christianity in Light of Modern Views of Mental Illness (NY: MacMillan, 1951)

 

Neugroschul, Joachim, The Great Works of Jewish Fantasy and Occult (Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, 1976)

 

Sherwin, Byron L., Exorcism in Judaism [unpublished manuscript]

 

Wohlstein, Joseph, Damonenbeschworungen aus nachtalmudischer Zeit (Berlin: 1894)

 

Articles in Periodicals and Chapters in Books

Alexander, P.S., "The Demonoloy of the Dead Sea Scrolls," in Peter W. Flint & James C. VanderKam (eds.) The Dead Sea Scrolls after Fifty Year: A Comprehensive Assessment Vol I-II (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1998-1999), pp. 331-353

Alexander, Tamar, "Theme and Genre: Relationships between man and she-demon in Jewish Follore," Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Review 14:1-2 (1992), pp. 56-61 [A Hebrew version appeared in Eshnav Lehayehen shel Nashim Behavarot Yehudiyot 1995]

“Asmodeus,” Encyclopaedia Judaica (Jerusalem: Keter, 1971), vol. 2, pp. 754-755

 

Bacher, W., "La legende de L'Exorcism D'un Demon par Simon b. Yohai," REJ 35 (1897), 285-287

 

Bar-Ilan, Meir, "Exorcism by the Rabbis: Talmudic Sages and Magic," Da`at 34 (1995), pp. 17-31 [Hebrew]

 

Bazak, B., "Rabbi Kook as an Exorcist," Shana be Shana (1976), pp. 387-391 [Hebrew]

 

Billerbeck, P., “Zur Altjudischen Damonologie,” in H.L. Strack and P. Billerbeck, Kommentar Neuen Testament aus Talmud und Midrash (Munchen: 1928), vol. 4:1 pp. 501-535

Bilu, Yoram, “The Moroccan Demon in Israel,” Ethos 8:1 (1980), 24-39         

 

Bonner, C., "The Technique of Exorcism," HTR 36 (1943), 39-49.

Canaan, T., "Haunted Spirits and Water Demons in Palestine," The Journal of the Palestine Oriental Society 1 (1920-1921), 153-170

Chajes, J.H., "Judgements Sweetened: Possesion and Exorcism in Early Modern Jewish Culture," Journal of Early Modern History 1:2 (1997), pp. 124-169

Chajes, J.H., "Jewish Exorcism: Early Modern Traditions and Transformations," in L.B. Fine (ed.), Judaism in Practice: from the Middle Ages Through the Early Modern  Period (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998)

 

Dan, Joseph, "Demons of the Cup and Demons of the Thumb," Tarbiz 32 (1962), pp.   [=Joseph Dan (ed.), Ashkenazi-Hasidic Literature (Ramat Gan: 1975), pp. 34-43]

Dan, Joseph, “Sipporim Demonologiyyim me-kitve R. Yehuda Hasid,” Tarbiz 30 (1961), pp. 288ff

Dan, Joseph, “Demonology in Menashe ben Israel’s ‘Nishmat Hayyim’,” in I. Twersky & B. Septimus (eds.), Jewish Thought in the 17th Century (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987), pp. 63-75

Delcor, Mathias, "Des inscriptions de Deir Alla aux traditions bibliques a propos des 'shdyn', des 'shedim' et de 'shadday'," in Manfred Gorg (ed.), Die Vater Israels  (Stuttgart: Verlag Katholosches Biblewerk, 1989), pp. 33-40

Dercharnex, Baudouin, "Apparitions et miracles des anges et demons chez Philon d'Alexandrie et Plutarque," in Alain Dierkens (ed.), Apparitions et Miracles (Bruxelles: Editions de l'Universite de Bruxelles, 1991), pp. 61-68

Dietrich, Manfried, "Die ugaritische El-Damonologie: Untersuchungen zu den Wortpaaren 'tkm'--'il siy' un 'aklm'--'qqm'," in Yitzhak Avishur & Robert Deutsch (eds.), Michael: Historical, Epigraphical and Biblical Studies in Honor of Prof. Michael Heltzer (Tel Aviv-Jaffa: Archaeological Center Publications, 1999), pp. 127-144

Douglas, Mary, "Demonology in William Roberston Smith's Theory of Religious Belief," in William Johnstone (ed.), William Robertson Smith: Essays in Reassessment  (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995), pp. 274-292

Duling, Dennis C., "The Elazar Miracle and Solomon's Magical Wisdom in Flavius Josephus' Antiquitatis Judaicae 8:42-49," HTR 78 (1985), 1-25

 

Duling, Dennis, "Solomon, Exorcism, and the Son of David," HTR 68 (1975), 235-252

Gammie, John G., "The Angeology and Demonology in the Septuagint of the Book of Job," HUCA 56 (1985), 1-19

Ginzberg, L., “Asmodeus,” Jewish Encyclopedia (NY: Funk & Wagnells, 1901-1905), vol.2, pp. 217-220

Giverson, S., “Solomon und die Demons,” in M. Krause (ed.), Essays on the Nag Hammadi Texts in Honor of Alexander Bohlig (Leiden: Brill, 1972), pp. 16-21

Goodblatt, Chanita, "Women, Demons, and the Rabbi's Son: Narratology and 'A Story from Worms'," Exemplaria 12:1 (2000), 231-253

Gordon, Cyrus H., “Leviathan: A Symbol of Evil,” A. Altmann (ed.), Biblical Motifs (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1966), pp. 1-9

Gorg, Manfred, "'Damonen' statt in 'Eulen' in Jes 13:21," Biblische Notizen 62 (1992), 16-17

Heller, B., “Autre note sur le nom divin de vingt-deux lettres et sur le demon de l’oubli,” REJ 57 (1909), 105-108

Hermmann, L., “Les Premiers exorcismes juifs et Judeo-Cretiens,” Revue de L’universite de Bruxelles 7 (1954-5), 305-308

Israel, Felice, "Un supposto aramaismo ed il demone Deber," in Riccardo Contino [et al.] (eds.),  Semtica: serta philoloica Constantino Tsereteli dicata (Torino: Silvio Zamorani Editore, 1993), pp. 127-129

Jackson, Howard M., "Echoes and Demons in the Pseudo-Philonic 'Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum'," JSJ 27:1 (1996), 1-20

Jansson, Eva-Maria, "Att Fordiva en Demon," Mamrelund 3:2 (1992), 21-40

Kirschschlager, W., “Exorcisms in Qumran,” Kairos 18 (1976), 135-153

Knox, W.G., "Jewish Liturgical Exorcism," HTR 31 (1938), 191-203

Koch, Klaus, "Monotheismus und Angelologie," in W. Dietrich, M.A. Klopfenstein (eds.), Ein Gott Allein? JHWH--Verehrung und Biblischer Monotheismus im        Kontext der Israelitischen und altorientalischen Religionsgeschichte (Freiburg: Universitatsverlag; Gottingen: Vanderhoeck & Rupr, 1994), pp. 565-581

Kottek, Samuel S., "Demons and Diseases in Bible and Talmud," in Illness and Healing in Ancient Times (Haifa, Israel: Reuben and Edith Hecht Museum, 1996), pp. 32- 38

Kristensson, Jutta, "'Embracing Lucifer'" Paradoxical Female Identity in German-Jewish Lyric Poetry," 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. 452-461

Landmann, S., “Exorzianen in der judischen tradition,” Zeitschrift fur Religions und Geistesgeschichte 28 (1978), 357-366

Lewy, Heinrich, “Zum Damonenglauben,” AR 28 (1930), 241-252

Lieber, Elinor, "Leprosy in the Lands of the Bible, and the Demons Bes and Pazuzu. Part 1: Ancient Egypt and the Bes-Image," Koroth 10 (1993-1994), 23-43

Lyons, William John, "The Demonic Virus and Qumran Studies: Some Preventative Measures," Dea Sea Discoveries 5:1 (1998), 16-32

 

Maier, J., “Geister (Damonen),” RAC IX (1976), cols. 579-585, 626-639, 668-688

Marmorstein, A., “Minhagim Qedumim be Eretz Israel,” Maasef Zion 2 (1927), 17-27

Moore, Michael S., "Job's Text of Terror," CBQ 55:4 (1993), 662-675

Naveh, Joseph, “A Good Subduing, There is None Like it,” Tarbiz 54 (1985), 367-382

Nysenholc, Judith, "A Demon's Poetic and Sacreligious Philosophy: What is Lost in the  Translation of Isaac Bashevis Singer's 'Der Shpigi'," Yiddish 9:2 (1994), 30-43

Onuki, Takashi, "Tollwut in Q?  Ein versuch uber Mt 12:45-50/Lk 11:24-26," New Testament Studies 46:3 (2000), 358-374

Patai, R., "Exorcism and Xenoglassia among the Safed Kabbalists," in On Jewish Folklore (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1983), 314-325

Puech, E., "11QpsAp "Un Ritual D'exorcismes, Essai de Reconstruction," RQ 14 (1990), 377-408

Rainey, Anson F., "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Deities and Demons," Israel Oriental Studies 18 (1998), 455-459

Rapaport, S.J.L., “Ashmedai,” in `Erekh Millim (Warsaw, 1914) [reprint: Jersualem, Makor, 1969-70) II, pp. 106-122

Ratzbaby, Yehuda, “The Sorcery Motif in Bridegroom Songs,” Tarbiz 61 (1991-2), 117-126

Schiff, Ellen, "Demythologizing the Demon: Updating the Stock Type," WCJS 9 D2 (1986), pp. 213-218

Schlolem, G, “Demons, Demonology,” Encyclopaedia Judaica (Jerusalem: Keter, 1971), vol. 5, pp.  1521-1533

Scholem, G., "Peraqim Hadashim me-Inyene Ashmedai ve-Lillit," Tarbiz 19 (1947/1948), 16-75

Scholem, G., "Somes Sources of Jewish-Arabic Demonology," JJS 16  (1965), 1-13

Scholem, Gershom, “Bilar Melech HaShedim,” Madae` HaYahadut 1 (1926), 112-127

Schorr, O.H., “Malachim, Shedim, Umazzikin,” HeHeluz 7 (1865), 16-22; 8 (1869), 3-16

Scurlock, JoAnn, "Ghosts in the Ancient Near East: Weak or Powerful," HUCA 68 (1997), 77-96

Segalla, Giuseppe, "Dall'"Eschaton" all'"Arche": scelta escatologica e origini dell'uomo nella tradizione evangelica," Ricerche Storica Bibliche 6:1-2 (1994), 201-221

Shaked, Shaul, "Badana, King of the Demons, and other Iranian term in Babylonian Aramaic Magic," Acta Iranica 25:2 (1985), 511-525

Stevens, David E., "Daniel 10 and the Notion of Terrestrial Spirits," Biblioteca Sacra 628 (2000), 410-431

Thompson, Steven, "The End of Satan," Andrews University Seminary Studies 37:2 (1999), 257-268

 

Torczyner, H., “A Hebrew Incantation Against Night-Demons from Biblical Times,” JNES 6 (1947), 21-27

Weinstock, I., “Demut Abu-Aaron ha Babli be Megilat Ahimaaz,” Shana be-Shana (1964), 2-25

 

Dybbuk

 

Books

 

Ansky, S., The Dybbuk [trans. by H.G. Alsberg & W. Katzin] (NY: Liverright, 1926)

 

Bilu, Y., The Taming of the Deviants and Beyond—An Analysis of Dibbuk Possession and Exorcism in Judaism

 

Kohen, Zamir, be-`Ikvot ha-dibuk (Jerusalem, Israel: Mekhon 'Or ve-`arakhim', 1999)

 

Nigal, G, Sipurei ‘Dybbuk’ be Sifrut Israel (Jerusalem: Ruben Mass, 1983, c1994)

            Press, 1981)

 

Ruderman, Pinhas, Ha-Dibbuk (Warsaw: 5638)

 

Winkler, G., Dybbuk: A Glimpse of the Supernatural in Jewish Tradition (The Judaica)

 

Articles in Perdiodicals and Chapters in Books

 

Bilu, Y.,  "Dybbuk and Maggid: Two Cultural Patterns of Altered Conscionsneess in Judaism," AJS Review 21/2 (1996), 341-366

 

Galford, Ellen, “The Duke and the Dybuk,” Jewish Currents 49:10 (1995), 12-13, 33

Gotholz, A.J., "HaDibbbuk," Yeda-Am 8 (1963), 59-62 [Hebrew]

 

Hoberman, J., “Repossesing the Dybbuk,” Pakn Treger 28 (1998), 20-35

 

Levy, Shimon, “The Dybbuk Revisited: Images of Religious Jews on the Israeli Stage,” Israel Affairs 4 (1998), 219-229

Lewi, Henri, "Demons et Dibbouks," Yod 31-31 (1992), 53-66

 

Lieberman, Leo, "The Concept of the 'dybukk' in Hebrew Literature and Thought," in E. Nauman (ed.), Exorcism Through the Ages (Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Press, 1974), pp. 99-104

Nigal, Gedalyah, "Ha-Dibbuk ha-Mystica ha-Yahadut," Da`at 4 (1981), 75-100 [Hebrew]

 

Nigal, Gedalya, "Al Ruhot Dibbuk ba-Sifrut Yisrael," Bar-Ilan Annual 24-25 (1989),   pp. 51-60

 

Schifrin, Daniel R., “A Play for all Seasons,” Haddasah 78:9 (1997), 32-35

 

Schnappes, Morris V., “Editor’s Diary,” Jewish Currents 52:4 (1998), 18-21

Scholem, Gershom, “Dibbuk,” Encyclopaedia Judiaca (Jerusalem: Keter, 1971), vol.  6, pp. 6-21

Yerushalmi, Dorit, "The Habinah 'Dybbuk': A Study in the Role of Excorcism," Assaph  C 14 (1998), pp. 193-214

 

 

Lilith

Books

 

Black Koltuv, Barbara, The Book of Lilith (York Beach, MA: Nicolas Hays, Inc., 1986)

Hadas, Pamela, The Passion of Lilith (St. Louis: The Cauldron Press, 1976)

 

Hurwirtz, H., Lilith, die erste Eva (1980)

Patai, Raphael, The Hebrew Goddess (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1990) [221-254]

Schwartz, Howard, Lilith’s Cave (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1988)

Zoller, I., Lilith (Roma: 1929) [reprint from Rivista di Antropologia 37]

Articles in Periodicals and Chapters in Books

 Adler, Joseph, “Lilith,” Midstream 45:5 (1999), 4-7

Ballard, H. Wayne, Jr., "Is Lilith fair? An Observation from Isaiah 34:14," Review and  Expositor 95:4 (1998), 583-588

Bitton, Michele, "Lilith ou la premiere Eve: le mythe juif de la feminite demoniaque," EHEJ (1993), 19-32

Bormanis, John, "Lilith on the Liffey: Gender, Rebellion, and Anticolonialism in   'Finnegans Wake'," James Joyce Quarterly 34:4 (1997), 489-503

Cassuto, U., “Un antico scongiuro ebraico contro Lilit,” Rivista degli Studi Orientali 15 (1934), 259-261

Dame, Enid, "Sister in the Shadows: Lilith's role in the Jewish Family Myth," in Enid Dame [et al.] (eds.) Which Lilith?  Feminist Writers Re-Create the World's First    Women (Northvale, NJ: J. Aaronson, 1998), pp. 305-317

Dufetel, Jacques, "Bible et mythe symboliste: Lilith de Remy de Gourmet," in Pierre Marie Beaude (ed.), Le Bible en Litterature: actes du colloque international de        Metz (Paris: Editions du Cerf; Metz: Universite de Metz, 1997), pp. 29-40

Fauth, Wolfgang," Lilits und Astarten in aramaischen, mandaischen und syrischen Zaubertexten," Die Welt des Orient 17 (1987), 66-94

Frohlich, Ida, "Two Aprotropaic Texts from the Jewish Museum in Budapest," in A. Fodor & E. Shivtiel (eds.), Proceedings of the Colloquium on Popular Customs and the Monotheistic Religions in the Middle East and North Africa (Budapest: Eotvos Lorand Universoty, Csoma de Koros Society, 1994), pp. 295-303

Gaster, Moses, “Beitrage zur vergleichenden Sagen- und Marchenkunde: X. Lilith und drei Engel,” MGWJ 29 (1880), 553-565

Gaster, T.H., “A Cannanite Magical Text,” Or 11 (1942), 45-55

Gordon, Cyrus H., “A World of Demons and Liliths,” in C. Gordon, Adventures in the Nearest East (London: Phoenix House Ltd., 1957) [reprint of ch. 10 of The Living Past (NY: John Day, 1941)]

Hellig, Jocelyn Louise, "Lilith as Focus of Judaism's Gender Construction," Dialogue and Alliance 12:1 (1998), pp. 35-49

Hoffeld, Jeffrey M., “Adam’s Two Wives,” MMAB June (1968), 430-440

Levi, Israel, “Lilit et Lilin,” REJ 68 (1914), 15-21

Lind, Jakov, “Lilith and Eve,” in Howard Schwartz (ed.), Imperial Messages (NY: Avon, 1976)

Montgomery, James, “The Lilith Legend,” Museum Journal 4 (1913), 62-65

Prinz, Deborah R., "Lilith, Lust, and Lore," CCAR Journal [Special issue] Summer (1997), 62-69

Stora, Jean Benjamin, "De Lilith a Eve: destin de la feminite juive au Maghreb,"  Nouvelle Revue d'Ethnopsyhciatrie 31 (1996), 53-90

Tanghe, Vincent, "Lilit in Edom (Jes 34:5-15)," ETL 69:1 (1993), 125-133

Teugels, Lieve, "The Creation of Human in Rabbinic Interpretation," in Gerard P. Luttikhuizen (ed.), The Creation of Man and Women: Interpretations of the Biblical Narratives in Jewish and Christian Traditions (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2000), pp. 107-127

Vogelsang, E.W., "The Confrontation between Lilith and Adam: the Fifth Round," Journal of Analytical Psychology 30:2 (1985), 149-163

Wnekart, Henny, "Feminist Revaluation of the mythical triad of two women and one man- Lilith, Adam, Eve," in Enid Dame [et al.] (eds.) Which Lilith?  Feminist Writers Re-Create the World's First Women (Northvale, NJ: J. Aaronson, 1998), pp. 105-111

 

Zoller, I., “Lilith,” Philologische Schriften 3 (1929), 121-142

 

 

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