Magic in the Greco-Roman Period

 

Table of Contents

 

 

General

 

Gager, John G., Curse Tablets and Binding Spells from Antiquity and the Ancient WorldÊÊÊÊ (NY: Oxford University Press, 1992)

 

Graf, Fritz, Magic in the Ancient World (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,ÊÊ 1997)

 

Luck, George, Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds: AÊÊÊ Collection of Ancient Texts (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985)

 

General Jewish

 

Books

 

Blau, Ludwig, Das Altjuedische Zauberwesen (Budapest: Jahresbericht der LandesÊÊÊÊ Rabbinerschule, 1898) [Berlin: 1914] [reprint Graz: 1974] [reprint Darmstadt, Germany: Hesse/Becker, 1987]

 

Charlesworth, James, Astrology, Astronomy, and Magic (Evanston, IL: Religion andÊÊ Ethics Institute, 1983)

 

Eshel, Esther, ha-Emunah be-Shedi, be-Erets-Yisraâel bi-yeme ha-Bayit ha-Sheni (Ph.D. Dissertation, Hebrew University: Jerusalem, Israel, 1999) [Heb--Demonology in Palestine during the Second Temple Period]

 

Goodenough, Erwin R., Jewish Symbols in the Greco-Roman Period [13 Vols.]Ê (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1953-68)

 

Henderson, Zoe Anne, Much More than Hocus Pocus: Magic in Hellenistic Judaism (Ph.D. Dissertation, Columbia Theological Seminary, 1995)

 

Meyer, M. & Mirecki P. (eds.), Ancient Magic and Ritual Power (Leiden: Brill, 1995)

 

Mills, Mary E., Human Agents of Cosmic Power in Hellenistic Judaism and the Synoptic Tradition (Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1990)

 

Saar, O., Superstitions in Israel during the Roman and Early-Byzantine Periods, (Masters Thesis, Tel Aviv University, 2003 (in Hebrew)

 

Wise, Michael O., Thunder in Gemini and Other Essays on the History, Language, and Literature of Second Temple Palestine (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1994)

 

Articles in Periodicals and Chapters in Books

 

Alexander, P.S., "Incantations and Books of Magic," in Emil Schurer, The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ (175 B.C.--A.D. 135), English versionÊ revised and edited by G. Vermes, F. Millar, and M. Goodman, Vol. III, part 1Ê (Edinburgh: 1986), pp. 341-379

 

Alexander, Philip, "Jewish Elements in Gnosticism and Magic c. CE 70," in William Horbury, W.D. Davies, and John Sturdy (eds.) The Cambridge History of Judaism III (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. 1052-1078

 

Bar-Ilan, Meir, "Magic Seals on the Body Among Jews in the First Century CE," Tarbiz 57 (1988), 37-50 [HEB]

 

Bergmann, J., "Gebet und Zauberspruch," MGWJ 74 (1930), 457-463

 

Bohak, Gideon, "Greek, Coptic, and Jewish Magic in the Cairo Geniza," in Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 36 (1999), 27-44

 

Charlesworth, James H., "Jewish Interest in Astrology During the Hellenistic and Roman Period," ANRW 11.20.2 (1987), 926-950

 

Foerster, G., "The Zodiac in Ancient Synagogues and its Place in Jewish Thought and Literature," EI 19 (1987), 225-234

 

Gager, John, "Moses and Magic," in J. Gager, Moses in Greco-Roman Paganism (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1972), pp. 134-161

 

Gager, John, "Moses the Magician: Hero of an Ancient Counter-Culture?" Helios 21:2Ê (1994), 179-188

 

Gero, Stephen, "The Enigma of the Magician Lotapes (Pliny, Naturalis Historia XXX, 11)," JSJ 27 (1996), pp. 304-323

 

Greenfield, J.C. and Sokoloff, Michael, "Astrological and Related Omen Texts in Jewish Palestinian Aramaic," JNES 48 (1989), 201-214Ê

 

Kee, Howard Clark, "Magic and Messiah," in Jacob Neusner, Ernest S. Frerichs, & Paul Virgil McCracken Flescher (eds.), Religion, Science, and Magic: In Concert and in Conflict (NY, NY: Oxford University Press, 1989), pp. 121-141

 

Kloner, Amos, "The Synagogues of Harvar Rimmon," in R. Hachlili (eds.), Ancient Synagogues in Israel: third-seventh century CE (Oxford: B.A.R., 1989), pp. 43-48

 

Korrington, Gail Paterson, "Power and the Man of Power in the Context of Hellenistic Popular Belief," SBLSP 23 (1984), 257-261

 

Lesses, Rebecca, "Speaking with Angels: Jewish and Greco-Egyptian Revelatory Adjurations," HTR 89 (1996), 41-60

 

Menard, Jacques E., "Les origines de la Gnose," Revue des Sciences Religieuses 42 (1968), 24-38

 

Millard, Alan R., "âBGD·-Magic Spell of Educational Exercise," EI 18 (1985) 39-42

 

Mussies, Gerard, "The Interpretation Judaica of Thot-Hermes," in M. Voss (ed.), Studies in Egyptian Religion (Leiden: Brill, 1982), pp. 89-120

 

Naveh, Joseph, "Lamp Inscriptions and Inverted Writing," IEJ 38:1-2 (1988), 36-43

 

Naveh, Joseph, "Some Considerations on the Ancient Samaritian Inscriptions," in R. Macuch and M. Macuch [et al.] (eds.) Studia Semitica Necnon Iranica (Wiesbaden: O. Harrasowitz, 1989), pp. 179-185

 

Schurer, E., "Zeuberformeln und Zauberbucher," in E. Schurer, Geschichte des Judischen Volkes im Zeitalter Jesu Christi, bd. 3 (Leipzig: 1909), pp. 407-420

 

Simon, M., Verus Israel (Paris, 1964), pp. 394-431 [Superstition et Magie]; (London, 1996), pp. 339-368 [English trans.]

 

Sloyan, Gerard S., "Jewish Ritual of the 1st Century CE and Christian Sacramental Behavior," Biblical Theology Bulletin 15 (1985), 98-103

 

Torrey, Charles C., "The Magic of 'Lotapes'," JBL 68:4 (1949), 325-327

 

Jewish Literature (Philo, Josephus, Apocrypha, OT Pseudepigrapha)

 

Books

 

Pietersma, A., The Apocryphon of Jannes and Jambres the Magicians (Leiden-NYÊ Koeln: Brill, 1994)

Reimer, Andy M., Miracle and Magic: A Study in the Acts of the Apostles and the Life of Apollonious of Tyana(JSNTSup, 235; London: Sheffield Academic Press, 2002)

 

Articles in Periodicals and Chapters in Books

 

Berchman, Robert M., "Arcana Mundi Betweem Balaam and Hecate: Prophecy, Divination, and Magic in Later Platonism," SBLSP 28 (1989), pp. 107-185

 

Berchman, Robert M., "Arcana Mundi: Magic and Divination in the 'de Somniis' of Philo of Alexandria," SBLSP 26 (1987), pp. 403-428

 

Berchman, Robert, "Arcana Mundi: Prophecy and Divination in the ÎVita Mosisâ of Philo of Alexandria," SBLSP 27 (1988), pp. 385-423

 

Bischoff, E., "Astrologie in der Henoch Tradition," ZAW 109 (1997), 222-245

 

Charlesworth, James, "Jewish Astrology in the Talmud, Pseudepigrapha, the Dead SeaÊ Scrolls, and Early Palestinean Synagogues," HTR 70 (1977), pp. 183-200

 

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

 

Dion, Paul E., "Raphael l'exorciste," Biblica 57:3 (1976), 399-413

 

Frohlich, Ida, "Magic, Sorcery, and Myth in Jewish Pseudepigraphic Literature (the Ethiopic Book of Enoch)," in K. Deveny and T. Ivany (eds.) Proceedings of the Colloquium on Logos, Mythos II (Budapest: Eotvos Lorand University: Csomo de Koros Society, 1996), pp. 163-175

 

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

 

Hayward, Robert, "Pseudo-Philo and the Priestly Oracle," JSS 46 (1995), pp. 43-54

 

Hunstman, Eric D., "And They Cast Lots: Divination, Democracy and Josephus," Brigham Young University Series 36:3 (1996-1997), pp. 365-377

 

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

 

James, M.R., "Citharismus regis David contra daemonum Saulis," in M.R. James (ed.),Ê Apocrypha Anecdota: Texts and Studies (Cambridge: University Press, 1983)ÊÊ [Reprint: Nendeln: Kraus, 1967], pp. 83-85

 

Kee, Howard C., "Satan, Magic, and Salvation in the Testament of Job," Society of Biblical Literature 1 (1974), 53-76

 

Kollman, Bernd, "Gottlich Offenbarung Magisch--Pharmaleogischer Heilkunst in DuchÊÊ Tobit," ZAW 106:2 (1994), 289-299

 

Molenberg, Corrie, "A Study of the Roles in Shemihaza and Asael in I Enoch 6-11," JJS 35 (1984), pp. 136-146

 

Pietersma, A., "The Apocryphon of Jannes and Jambres," in J. Emerton (ed.), Congress Volume (Leuven: 1989), pp. 383-395

 

Smith, Morton, "The Occult in Josephus," in L. Feldman, G. Hata (eds.), Josephus, Judaism, and Christianity (Leiden: Brill, 1987), pp. 236-256

 

 

Greek Magical Papyri

 

Books

 

Betz, Hans D., (ed.), The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation, Including the Demotic Spells (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986)

 

Preisendanz, K., (ed.), Papyri Graecae Magicae die Griechischen Zauberpapyri [2 vols.] (Stuttgart: Teubner, 1973-1974)

 

 

Articles in Periodicals and Chapters in Books

 

Betz, Hans D., "Jewish Magic in the Greek Magical Papyri (PGM VII. 260-271)," in Peter Schafer, and H.G. Kippenberg (eds.) Envisioning Magic: A Princeton Seminar and Symposium (Leiden--NY--Koeln: E.J. Brill, 1997), pp. 45-63

 

Gaster, Moses, "The Logos Ebraikos in the Magical Papyrus of Paris, and the Book of Enoch," in M. 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. 356-364

 

Judge, E.A., "The Magical Use of Scripture in the Papyri," in E.W. Conrad and E.G. Newing (eds.), Perspectives on Language and Text: Essays and Poems in Honour of Frances I. Anderson (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1987), pp. 339-349

 

Leonas, Alexis, "The Septuagint and the Magical Papyri," BIOSCS 32 (1999), 51-64

 

Smith, Morton, "The Eighth Book of Moses and How it Grew," in Shaye J.D. Cohen (ed.) Studies in the Cult of Yahweh (New York: E.J.Brill, 1996-), pp. 217-226 [=Atti del XVII Congresso di Papirologia, vol 2 (Naples: Centro internazionale per lo studio dei papiri ercolanesi, 1984), pp. 683-693]

 

Smith, Morton, "The Jewish Elements in the Magical Papyri," in Shaye J.D. Cohen (ed.) Studies in the Cult of Yahweh (New York: E.J.Brill, 1996-), pp. 242-256 [=SBLSP 25 (1986), pp. 455-462]

 

Smith, Morton, "A Note on Some Jewish Assimilationists: The Angels (P. Berlin 5025b, P. Louvre 2391), in Shaye J.D. Cohen (ed.) Studies in the Cult of Yahweh (NewÊ York: E.J.Brill, 1996-), pp. 235-241

 

Sperber, Daniel, "Some Rabbinic Themes in Magical Papyri," JSJ 16 (1985), 93-103

 

Veltri, G., "Zur Uberlieferung medizinisch-magischer Traditionen: Da metra-Motiv in den Papyri Magicae und der Kairoer Genizah," Henoch 18 (1996), 157-175

 

Solomon the Magician

 

Books

 

Peterca, Vladimir, LâImagine di Salomone nella bibbia ebraica e greca contributo allo studio del midrash (Diss. Pontificia Universitas Gregoriana, 1981)

 

Winston, David, The Wisdom of Solomon (AB; Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1979)

 

Articles in Periodicals and Chapters in Books

 

Conybeare, F.C., "The Wisdom of Solomon," JQR 11 (1898), 1-45

 

Duling, D.C., (trans.), "The Testament of Solomon," in J.H. Charlesworth (ed.), The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha (Garden City NY: Doubleday, 1983), Vol 1, pp. 935 987

 

Duling, D.C., "The Legend of Solomon the Magician in Antiquity: Problem andÊ Perspectives," in Proceedings: Eastern Great Lakes Biblical Society 4 (Westerville, OH: 1984), pp. 1-23

 

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

 

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

 

Frey, J.B., "Apocryphes de lâAncien Testament: Le Testament de Salomon," DBS 1 (1928), 455-456

 

Giverson, S., "Solomon und die Daemon," in M Krause (ed.), Essays on the Nag Hammadi Texts in Honour of Alexander Bohliq (Leiden: Brill, 1972), pp. 16-21

 

Halperin, David J., "The Book of Remedies, the Canonization of the Solomonic Writings and the Riddle of Pseudo-Eusebius," JQR 72 (1982), 269-292

 

McCown, Chestor C., "The Christian Tradition as to the Magical Wisdom of Solomon," JPOS 2:1 (1922), 1-24

 

Naldini, M., "Un Frammento esorcistico e il Testamento di Salomone," in Studia Florentina Alexandro Ronconi Sexagenario Oblata (Roma, Edizioni dell'Ateneo, 1970), pp. 281-287

 

Perdrizet, P., "Solomonâs Seal," REG 16 (1903), 42-61

 

Preisendanz, Karl, "Ein Weinder Papyrusfragment zum Testamentum Salomonis," EosÊÊ 48 (1957), 161-167

 

Preisendanz, Karl, "Salomon," PRE.S 8 (1956), 660-704

Rainbow, Jesse, "The Derivation of 'Kordiakos': A New Proposal," Journal for the Study of Judaism 38 (2007) 1-12

 

Rainbow, Jesse, "The Song of Songs and the Testament of Solomon: Solomon's Love Poetry and Christian Magic," HTR 100 (2007): 249-274

 

Toy, C.H., "Solomon, Testament of," Jewish Encyclopedia (NY: Funk & Wagnells, c1901-1905), vol. 6, pp. 448-449

 

Whittaker, M., "The Testement of Solomon," in H.D.F. Sparks (ed.), The Apocryphal Old Testament (1984), pp. 737-751

 

Magic in the Qumran Community

 

Articles in Periodicals and Chapters in Books

 

Albani, "Der Zokaikos in 4Q318 und die Henoch-Astronomie," Theologische Fakultat Leipzig Forschungsstelle Judentum Mitteilungen und Beitrage 7 (1993), 7-8

 

Alexander, Philip S., "Magic and Magical Texts," in L.H. Schiffman and J.C. VanderKam (eds.), Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls (NY: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 502-504

 

Alexander, Philip S., Physiognomy, Initiation, and Rank in the Qumran Community," in Peter Schafer (ed.), Geschichte -Tradition - Reflexion 1 (Tubingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 1996), pp. 385-394

 

Alexander, Philip S., "'Wrestling against the Wickedness in High Places' Magic in the Worldview of the Qumran Community," in Stanley E. Porter and Craig E. EvansÊÊ (eds.) The Scrolls and the Scriptures: Qumran Fifty Years After (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997), pp. 318-337

 

Alexander, Philip 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

 

Allegro, J., "An Astrological Cryptic Document from Qumran," JSS 9 (1964), 291- 294

 

Bailler, M., "Cantiques du Sage [4Q 510-511] DJD 7 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968-) 215-261

 

Baumgarten, I.A., "Al Shirei ha-Pegaim mi Qumran," Tarbiz 55 (1986), 442-445

 

Baumgarten, J.M., "On the Nature of the Seductress in 4Q184," Revue de Qumran 15 (1991), 131-143

 

Brayer, Menachem M., "Psychosomatics, Hermetic Medicine, and Dream Interpretation in the Qumran Literature," JQR 60 (1969), 112-127; 70 (1970), 213-230

 

Brayer, Menachem M., "Apotropaic Medicine and Dream Interpretation in the Scrolls of the Judean Desert and in the Apocrypha," in M. Zohori, A. Tartakover, & H. Ormian (eds.), Hagut Ivirt BeâAmerika Vol. 1 (Tel Aviv: Yavneh, 1972), pp. 174-185)

 

Charlesworth, James, "Jewish Astrology in the Talmud, Pseudepigrapha, the Dead SeaÊ Scrolls, and Early Palestinean Synagogues," HTR 70 (1977), pp. 183-200

 

Delcor, M., "Lâutilisation des psaumes contre les mauvais espirits a Qumran," in P. Grelot (ed.), La vie de la parole: De lâAncien au Nouveau Testament (Paris: Desclee, 1987), pp. 61-70

 

Dupont-Sommer, A., "Exorcismes et Guerisons dans les Ecrits de Qumran," VTSup 7 (1960), 246-261

 

Finkel, Asher, "The Pesher of Dreams and Scriptures," RQ 15 (1963), 357-370.

 

Fletcher-Louis , C. H. T, All the Glory of Adam: Liturgical Anthropology in the Dead Sea Scrolls (STDJ 42; Leiden: Brill, 2001)

 

Flusser, David, "Qumran and Medicine," in Illness and Healing in Ancient Times (Haifa, Israel: Reuben and Edith Hecht Museum, 1996), pp. 30-31

 

Greenfield, J.C., & Sokoloff, M., "An Astrological Text from Qumran (4Q318) and Reflections on Some Zodiacal Names," RevQ 16 (1995), 507-525

 

Kirchschlage, W., "Exorcizmus in Qumran," Kairos 18 (1976), 135-153

 

Lange, A., "The Essene Position on Magic and Divination," in F. Garcia Martinez and A.S. van der Woode (eds.) Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judea (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1997), pp. 377-433

 

Lange, A., "The Determination of Fate by the Oracle of the Lot in the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Mesopotamian Literature," in Daniel K. Falk, F. Garc’a Mart’nez, and Elieen M. Schuller (eds.) Sapiential, Liturgical, and Poetical Texts from Qumran: Proceedings of the Third Meeting of the International Organization for Qumran Studies, Oslo 1998, Published in Memory of Murice Baillet (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, 35; Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2000), pp. 39-48

 

Lehmann, M.R., "New Light on Astrology in Qumran and the Talmud," Revue de Qumran 32 (1975), 599-602

 

Lyons, William John & Reimer, A.M., "The Demonic Virus and Qumran Studies: Some Preventative Measures," Dead Sea Discoveries 5:1 (1998), 16-32

 

Mach, M., "Demons," in L. Schiffman & James C. VanderKam (eds.), EncyclopediaÊÊ of the Dead Sea Scrolls (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), vol. 1, pp. 189-192

 

Naveh, Joseph, "Fragments of an Aramaic Magic Book from Qumran," IEJ 48:3-4 (1998), 257-261

 

Nitzan, Bilha, "Hymns from Qumran 4Q510-4Q511," in Devorah Dimant and Uriel Rappaport (eds.) The Dead Sea Scrolls: Forty Years of Research (Leiden: E.J. Brill; Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1992), pp. 53-63

 

Nitzan, Bilha, "Magical Poetry," in B. Nitzan, Qumran Prayer and Religious Poetry (Leiden: Brill, 1994), pp. 227-272

 

Nitzan, Bilha, "Shirei Shebah mi-Qumran Île-pahad u-lehalelâ ruhot resha," Tarbiz 55 (1986), 19-46

 

Penney, Douglas L., and Wise, Michael D., "By the Power of Beelzabub: an Aramaic Incantation Formula from Qumran (4Q560)," JBL 113 (1994), 627-650.

 

Philonenko, Marc, "Son Soleil Eternal Brillera (4Q TestLevi 9:3) Revue d'Histoire et de Philosophie Religeuses 73:4 (1993), 405-408

 

Pingree, D., "Astronomical Consideration," RQ 16 (1995), 517-519

 

Puech, E., "11QpsApa: un ritual dâexorcismes.Ê Essai de reconstruction," RevQ 14 (1990), 377-408

 

Puech, E., "Les deux derniers psaumes davidiques du ritual dâexorcisme 11QpsApa," in Devorah Dimant and Uriel Rappaport (eds.) The Dead Sea Scrolls: Forty Years of Research (Leiden: E.J. Brill; Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1992), pp. 64-89

 

Peuch, Emile, "Les psaumes davidiques du rituel d'excorcisme (11 Q11)," in Daniel K. Falk, F. Garc’a Mart’nez, and Elieen M. Schuller (eds.) The Sapiential, Liturgical, and Poetical Texts from Qumran: Proceedings of the Third Meeting of the International Organization for Qumran Studies, Oslo 1998, Published in Memory of Murice Baillet (Leiden: E.J. Brill; Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1992), (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, 35; Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2000), pp. 160-181

 

Schmidt, F., "Astrologie juive ancienne: Essai dâinterpretation de 4Qcryptique (4Q186)," in Orion International Symposium: Jerusalem 12-14 May 1996 [unpublished]

 

Ta-Shma, I.M., "Hearot le-Shirei Shebah mi-Qumran," Tarbiz 55 (1986), 440-442

 

Van der Ploeg, J.P.M., "Un Petit rouleau de psaumes apocryphes (11QpsApa)," in Tradition und Glaube: Festschrift fur Karl Georg Kuhn (Gottingen: VandenhoeskÊÊ & Ruprecht, 1971), pp. 128-131

 

VanderKam, James C., "Mantic Vision in the Dead Sea Scroll," Dea Sea Discoveries 4:3 (1997), 336-353

 

Wise, M.O., "Thunder in Gemini: An Aramaic Brontologion (4Q318) from Qumran," in M.O. Wise, Thunder in Gemini and Other Essays on the History, Language, and Literature of Second Temple Palestine (Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1994), pp. 13-50

 

 

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