Aramaic Incantation Bowls in Museum Collections

Volume One: The Frau Professor Hilprecht Collection of Babylonian Antiquities, Jena
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-37700-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 215 mm x 289 mm, Gewicht: 1143 g

Reihe: Magical and Religious Literature of Late Antiquity

The Frau Professor Hilprecht Collection of Babylonian Antiquities at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena houses one of the major European collections of incantation bowls. Forty bowls bear texts written in the Jewish, Manichaean Syriac or Mandaic scripts, and most of the rest (some twenty-five objects) in the Pahlavi script or in various pseudoscripts. The present volume comprises new editions of the Aramaic (and Hebrew) bowl texts based on high-resolution photographs taken by the authors, together with brief descriptions and photographs of the remaining material. New readings are often supported with close-up photographs. The volume is intended to serve as a basis for further study of magic in late Antiquity and of the Late Eastern Aramaic dialects in which the texts were composed.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ford, James Nathan

Morgenstern, Matthew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Spiritualität & Mystik (Kabbala, Chassidismus)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Preface

Concordance of text Editions (MRLA 8 and TMHC 7)

Photographs

Abbreviations

Sigla

Introduction

I. JBA and Hebrew Bowls

1 HS 3001

2 HS 3003

3 HS 3005

4 HS 3006

5 HS 3007

6 HS 3008

7 HS 3009

8 HS 3010

9 HS 3012

10 HS 3015

11 HS 3016

12 HS 3019

13 HS 3022

14 HS 3023

15 HS 3026

16 HS 3027

17 HS 3030

18 HS 3032

19 HS 3033

20 HS 3034

21 HS 3035

22 HS 3041 + HS 3070x

23 HS 3042

24 HS 3043

25 HS 3046 + HS 3069

26 HS 3047

27 HS 3051

28 HS 3052

29 HS 3058

30 HS 3064

II. Syriac Bowls

31 HS 3018

32 HS 3039

33 HS 3053

34 HS 3056

35 HS 3062

36 HS 3066

III. Mandaic Bowls

37 HS 3011

38 HS 3021

39 HS 3025

40 HS 3054

IV. Unidentified Fragments, Non-Aramaic, Pseudoscript and Uninscribed Objects

41 HS 3002

42 HS 3004

43 HS 3013

44 HS 3014

45 HS 3017

46 HS 3020

47 HS 3024

48 HS 3028

49 HS 3029

50 HS 3031

51 HS 3036

52 HS 3037

53 HS 3038

54 HS 3040

55 HS 3044

56 HS 3045

57 HS 3048

58 HS 3049

59 HS 3050

60 HS 3055

61 HS 3057

62 HS 3059

63 HS 3060

64 HS 3061

65 HS 3063

66 HS 3065

67 HS 3067

68 HS 3068

69 HS 3070

Bibliography

Glossary

List of Divine Names, Names of Angels, Demons and Exemplary Figures, and Nomina Barbara

List of Clients and Adversaries

List of Biblical Quotations

List of Texts

Index

Über Autor(innen)

James Nathan Ford, Ph.D. (2003) in Ugaritic magic, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is Associate Professor in Semitic Languages at Bar-Ilan University. His research interests include Semitic philology and ancient Near Eastern and Jewish magic.

Matthew Morgenstern, Ph.D. (2002) in Babylonian Aramaic, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is Professor in Hebrew and Semitic Languages at Tel Aviv University. His research interests include Eastern Aramaic grammar and lexicography and the Hebrew and Aramaic of the Dead Sea Scrolls.