Magic in the Rabbinic Period

 

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Books

 

Brecher, Gideon, Das Transcendetale, Magie, und Magische Heilertarten im Talmud (Wien: Klopf und Eurich, 1850)

 

Daiches, Samuel, Babylonian Oil Magic in the Talmud and in the Later Jewish Literature (London: Jews' College Publication, 1913) [microfilm reel, NY: New York Public Library, 1994]

 

Gaster, Moses, Exempla of the Rabbis (London: 1924) [Reprint: Ny: Ktav, 1968]

 

Geller, Mark J., Joshua b. Perahia and Jesus of Nazareth: Two Rabbinic Magicians [Ph.D. Dissertation, Brandeis University, 1974]

 

Neusner, Jacob, A History of the Jews in Babylonia (Leiden: Brill), vol. 2 (1996), pp. 147-150, vol. 3 (1986), pp. 110-126, vol. 4 (1969), pp. 330-362, vol 5 (1970), pp. 174-196, 217-243

 

Neusner, Jacob, Sage, Miracle, Magic, and Science: Why No Gospels in TalmudicÊÊ Judaism? (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1987)

 

Neusner, Jacob, The Wonder-Working Lawyers of Talmudic Babylonia (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1987)

 

Smith, Morton, Jesus the Magician (NY: Harper and Row, 1978)

 

Sperber, Daniel, Magic and Folklore in Rabbinic Literature (Ramat Gan, Israel: Bar-Ilan University Press, 1994)

 

Teitelbaum, Irving, Jewish Magic in the Sassanian Period (Ph.D. Dissertation, Dropsie College, 1964)

 

Vertri, Giussepe, Magie und Halakha (Tuebingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 1997)

 

Von Stuckrad, K., Frommigkeit und Wissenschaft: Astrologie in Tanach, Qumran, und fruhrabbinischer Literature (Europaische Hochschulschriften, series 23 Theologie, vol. 572; Frankfurt: Lang, 1996)

 

Articles in Periodicals and Chapters in Books

 

ãDarkhe ha-Emori,ä in Encyclopedia Talmudit 7 (1956), pp. 706-712

 

Avishur, Y., ãDarke ha-Emori: ha rega ha-kena`ani-bavli we-ha-mivne ha-sifruti,ä in Ch. Rabin, D. Patterson, B.Z. Luria, and Y. Avishur (eds.), Studies in the Bible andÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ Hebrew Language Offered to Meir Wellenstein on the Occasion of his Seventy fifth Birthday (Jerusalem: Jewish Society for Bible Research in Israel, 1979), pp. 17-47

 

Bacher, W., "La Legende de L'Exorcisme D'un Demon par Simon b. Yohai," REJ 35 (1897), 285-7

 

Bar-Ilan, Meir, "Exorcism by the Rabbi: Talmudic Sages and Magic," Da'at 34 (1995), 17-31

 

Bar-Ilan, Meir, "Witches in the Bible and in the Talmud," in Herbert W. Basser and Sincha Fishbane (eds.) Approaches to Ancient Judaism, New Series [Vol V] (Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1993), pp. 7-32

 

Bazak, J., ãCucumbers and Witchcracft,ä Bar-Ilan Yearbook 6 (1968), 156-166 [Heb]

 

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

 

Bokser, B.M., "Wonder-Working and the Rabbinic Tradition: the Case of Hanina ben Dosa," JSJ 16 (1985), 42-92

 

Chajes, Z.H., ãDemons, Witchcraft, Incantations, Dreams, and Planetary Influences: Medical Prescription and Curative Methods in the Aggadah,ä in Z.H. Chajes, TheÊÊÊÊÊ Studentâs Guide Through the Talmud [trans. & ed. Jacob Schacter] (NY: Feldheim, 1960), pp. 233-244

 

Charlesworth, James, ãJewish Astrology in the Talmud, Pseudepigrapha, the Dead SeaÊ Scrolls, and Early Palestinean Synagogues,ä HTR 70 (1977), 183-200

 

Cohen, Samuel S., "The Name of God: A Study in Rabbinic Theology," HUCA 23 (1950-1951), 579-604

 

Efron, J., ãThe Deed of Simeon ben Shatah in Ascalon,ä in A. Kasher (ed.), Jews andÊ Hellenistic Cities in Eretz-Israel.Ê Relations of the Jews in Eretz-Israel with theÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ Hellenistic Cities During the Second Temple Period (332 BCE-70 CE) (Tubingen: 1990), pp. 227-228

 

Finkel, Irving L., ãNecromancy in Ancient Mesopotamia,ä AfO 29 (1983), 14-15

 

Fishbane, Michael, ãAspects of Jewish Magic in the Ancient Rabbinic Period,ä in N. Stampfer (ed.), Perspectives in Jewish Learning (Chicago: Spertus College of Judaica Press, 1979)

 

Fishbane, Simcha, "'Most Women Engage in Sorcery' an Analysis of Sorceresses in the Babylonian Talmud," Jewish History 7:1 (1993), 27-42

 

Freeman, David L., "The Gittin Book of Remedies," Korot 13 (1998-1999), 151-164

 

Geller, Markham J., ãThe Influence of Ancient Mesopotamia on Hellenistic Judaism,ä in Jack M. Sasson (ed.), Civilizations of the Ancient Near East (NY: Charles Scriberâs Sons, 1995), Vol 1, pp. 43-54

 

Geller, Markham J., ãThe Survival of Babylonian Wissenschaft in Later Tradition,ä in Sanno Aro & R.M. Whiting (eds.), Melammu Symposia (Helsinki: 2000), pp. 1-6

 

Goldin, Judah, "The Magic of Magic and Superstition," in Elisabeth Shuessler Fiorenza (ed.) Aspects of Religious Propaganda in Judaism and Early Christianity (Notre Dame--London: University of Notre Dame Press), pp. 115-147 [reprinted in J. Goldin, Studies in Midrash and Related Literature (Philadelphia--NY--Jerusalem:Ê JPS, 1988), pp. 337-357] Ê

 

Goldin, Judah, ãOn Honi the Circle Maker,ä in J. Goldin, Studies in Midrash and Related Literature (Philadelphia--NY--Jerusalem: JPS, 1988), pp. 331-335

 

Grabbe, L.J., ãThe Jannes/Jambres Tradition in Targum Pseudo-Jonathan and its Date,ä JBL 98 (1979), 395-401

 

Green, W.S., ãPalestinian Holy Men: Charismatic Leadership and Rabbinic Tradition,ä ANRW 2.19.2 (1979), 618-647

 

Hengel, Martin, ãRabbinische Legende und iruhpharisaische Geschichte Schimeon b. Shetach und die Achtzig Hexen von Ashkalon,ä Philosophisch-Historische KlasseÊ 2 (Heidelberg: Akademie der Wissenchaften, 1984)

 

Jansson, Eva-Maria, "The Magic of the Mezzuzah in Rabbinic Literature," Nordisk Judaistik 15:1-2 (1994), 51-66 [=Ulf Haxen, Hanne Trautner-Kromann, & KarenÊÊ 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. 415-425]

 

Kern-Ulmer, Brigitte (Rivka), "The Depiction of Magic in Rabbinic Texts: the Rabbinic and Greek Concept of Magic," JSJ 27 (1996), 289-303

 

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

 

Lesses, Rebecca, ãExe(o)rcising Power: Women as Sorceresses, Exorcists, and Demonesses in Babylonian Jewish Society in Late Antiquity,ä JAAR 69:2 (2001), 343-375

 

Lieberman, Saul, ãPleasures and Fears,ä in S. Lieberman, Greek in Jewish Palestine (NY: JTS, 1942, 1994), pp. 91-114

 

Lieberman, Saul, ãSome Notes on Adjuration in Israel,ä in S. Lieberman, Texts and Studies (NY: Ktav, 1974), pp. 21-8

 

Lightstone, J.N., "Magicians, Holy Men, and Rabbis: Patterns of the Sacred in Late Antique Judaism," in W. Green (ed.), Approaches to Ancient Judaism [Vol 1] (Missoula: Scholars Press, 1985), pp. 133-148

 

Lightstone, J.N., ãMagicians and Divine Men,ä in J.N. Lightstone, The Commerce of the Sacred: Mediation of the Divine among Jews in the Graeco-Roman Diaspora (Chico: Scholars Press, 1984), pp. 17-56

 

ãMatters Pertaining to Divination and Healing,ä in H.N. Bialik & Y.H. Ravinitzky (eds.) [trans., W.G. Braude], The Book of Legends: Sefer ha-Aggadah (NY: Schocken, 1992), pp. 789-804

 

Milgrom, Jacob, "The Water Libation in the Festival of Booths," Bible Review 12 (1996), 18, 55-56

 

Moore, George F., ãIntermediares in Jewish Theology,ä HTR 15 (1922), 41-85

 

Neusner, Jacob, "Rabbi and Magus in Third-century Sassanian Babylonia," History ofÊ Religions 6 (1966), 169-178

 

Neusner, Jacob, "Science and Magic; Miracle and Magic in Formative Judaism; the System and the Differences." 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. 61-81

 

Neusner, Jacob, ãThe Phenomenon of the Rabbi,ä Numen 16:1 (1969), 1-20

 

Noy, Dov, "Talmudic-Midrashic 'Healing Stories' as a Narrative Genre," Koroth 9 (1988), 124-146

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

 

Rosenfeld, Ben-Zion, "R. Simon b. Yohai--Wonder Worker and Magician Scholar, Sadiq, and Hasid," REJ 158 (1999), 349-384

 

Schafer, Peter, "The Magic of the Golem: the Early Development of the Golem Legend," JJS 46 (1995), 249-261

 

Schoeps, Han Joachim," Simon Magus in der Haggadah," HUCA 21 (1948), 257-274

 

Seidel, Jonathan, "Charging Criminals: Classification of Magic in the Babylonian Talmud," in Marvin Meyer and Paul Mirecki (eds.) Ancient Magic and Ritual Power (Leiden: EJ Brill, 1995), pp. 145-166

 

Seidel, Jonathan, "'Release us and We Will Release You!' Rabbinic Encounters with Witches and Witchcraft," JAGNES 3:1 (1992), 45-61

 

Sperber, Daniel, ãGYLTWRY÷Ligaturae: Something About Amulets in the Talmudic Period,ä Bar-Ilan Yearbook 13 (1976), 125-131 [Heb]

 

Urbach, Ephraim, ãMagic and Miracle,ä in E. Urbach, The Sages: Their Concepts and Beliefs (Jerusalem: Magnes 1975), pp. 97-183

 

Veltri, Giussepe, "Defining Forbidden Foreign Customs: Some Remarks on the RabbinicÊ Halakha of Magic," in D. Assaf (ed.) Proceedings of the 11th World Congress of Jewish Studies, Div. C Thought and Literature, Vol 1 Rabbinic and Talmudic Literature (1994), pp. 25-32

 

Veltri, Giussepe, "Magic in Ancient Judaism: the Key to Understanding Medicine, Sciences, and the Arts?" Judaism Today 10 (1998), 11-14

 

Veltri, Giussepe, "The 'Other' Physicians: the Amorites of the Rabbis and the Magic of Pliny," Korot 13 (1998-1999), 37-54

 

Veltri, Giussepe, "The Rabbis and Pliny the Elder: Jewish and Greco-Roman Attitudes Toward Magic and Empirical Knowledge," Poetics Today 19:1 (1998), 63-89

 

Vermes, Geza, ãJesus and Charismatic Judaism,ä in G. Vermes, Jesus the JewÊ (Philadephia: Fortress Press, 1981), pp. 58-82

 

Wachter, L., ãAstrologie und Schick Salsglaube im Rabbinischen Judentum,ä Kairos 11 (1969), 181-200

 

Wolfson, Elliot R., ã "Phantasmagoria: The Image of the Image in Jewish Magic from Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages,ä Review of Rabbinic Judaism: Ancient, Medieval, Modern 4 (2001), 78-120

 

Yassif, Eli, ãAspects of Magical Stories in Rabbinic Literature,ä in Jerusalem Studies in Folklore: The Dov Noy Festschrift (Jerusalem: 1992) [Heb]

 

Yassif, Eli, ãTales of Magic and Demonology in the Rabbinic Period,ä in Eli Yassif The Hebrew Folktale: History, Genre, Meaning (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1999), pp. 144-166.

 

Yassif, Eli, ãTraces of Folk Traditions of the Second Temple Period in Rabbinic Literature,ä JJS 39 (1988), 212-233

 

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