General Jewish Magic

 

 

Table of Contents

 

 

Books

 

Blau, Ludwig, Das Altjuedische Zauberwesen (Budapest: Jahresbericht der LandesÊÊÊÊ Rabbinerschule, 1898) [Reprints: Berlin: 1914; Westmead, Eng: Gregg, 1970; Graz: 1974]

 

Dennis, Geoffrey, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Myth, Magic, and Mysticism (Minneapolis MN: Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd., 2006)

 

Gaster, Moses, Studies and Texts in Folklore, Magic, and Medieval Romance, Hebrew Apocrypha, and Samaritan Archaeology [3 Vols.] (London: 1928) [Reprint NY, NY: Ktav, 1971]

 

Harari, Yuval, ha-Magyah ha-Yahadut ha-kedumah: iyunim metodologiyim ufenomenologiyim (Ph.D. Dissertation, Hebrew University, 1998)

 

Isaacs, Ronald H., Divination, Magic, and Healing: The Book of Jewish Folklore (Northvale, NJ: Jason Aaronson, 1998)

 

Joel, D., Der Aberglaube und die Stellung des Judenthums zu demselben (Breslau: 1883)

 

Josephy, Marcia Reines, Magic and Superstition in the Jewish Tradition [an exhibition organized by the Maurice Spertus Museum of Judaica] (Chicago, IL: Spertus College of Judaica Press, 1975)

 

Neusner, Jacob, Frerichs, Ernest S., & Flescher, Paul Virgil McCracken (eds.), Religion Science, and Magic: In Concert and in Conflict (NY, NY: Oxford University Press, 1989)

 

Scholz, Paul, Gotzendienst und Zauberwesen bei den Alten Hebraern und den Genochbarten Volkern (Regensburg: G.J. Manz, 1877)

 

Sharot, Stephen, Messianism, Mysticism, and Magic: A Sociological Analysis of Jewish Religious Movements (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1982)

 

Trachtenberg, Joshua, Jewish Magic and Superstition (New York: Atheneum, 1974)


 

Articles in Periodicals and Chapters in Books

 

Ahituv, S., ãDivination,ä Encyclopaedia Judaica (Jerusalem: Keter, 1971) vol. 6, pp. 111-116

 

Blau, L., ãMagic,ä Jewish Encyclopedia (New York and London, Funk & Wagnalls Company, c1901-1905), vol. 8, pp. 255-257

 

Cohn, H.H., ãSorcery,ä Encyclopaedia Judaica (Jerusalem: Keter, 1971), vol. 15, pp. 163-164

 

Dan, Y., ãMagic,ä Encyclopaedia Judaica (Jerusalem: Keter, 1971), vol. 11, pp. 703-715

 

Gaster, Moses, ãMagic (Jewish),ä in J. Hasting (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Religion andÊÊÊÊ EthicsÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1908-1926), pp. 300-305

 

ãJewish Magic: A Perspectives Symposium (Michael D. Swartz, Rebecca Lesses, Ephraim Kanarfogel),ä AJS 2:1 (2000), 10-15

 

ãMagic, Magic Bowls, Astrology in Judaism,ä in J. Neusner, Alan J. Avery Peck, and William Scott Green (eds.), Encyclopedia of Judaism (NY: Continuum, 1999), pp.ÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ 834-844

 

Neusner, Jacob, & Green, William S., ãMagic,ä in J. Neusner & William S. Green (ed.), Dictionary of Judaism in the Biblical Period (NY: Simon & Schuster, 1996), vol. 2, pp. 400-401

 

Schafer, Peter, ãMagic and Religion in Ancient Judaism,ä in Peter Schafer, and H.G. Kippenberg (eds.) Envisioning Magic: A Princeton Seminar and Symposium (Leiden--NY--Koeln: E.J. Brill, 1997), pp. 19-43