Asakkû: Demons and Illness in Ancient Mesopotamia

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction ix
5. Asakkû: Demons and Illness in Ancient Mesopotamia 1
6. Notes on the Presence of Magic within the Hebrew Bible in Light of Akkadian Literature 9
7. Apotropaic Intercession in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East 19
8. Magical Healing at Qumran (11Q11) and the Question of the Calendar 39
9. Calendars in the Book of Esther: Purim, Festivals, Cosmology 51
10. Drawing a Line between Prophecy, Magic and Divination 77
11. Dreams in the Hebrew Bible and Wisdom Literature 89
12. Aaron and the Amazing Mantic Coat 101
13. From Mantle to Scroll: the Wane of the Flesh and Blood Prophet in the Elisha Cycle 119
14. Drinking Golden Bull: the Erased Ordeal in Exodus 32 135
15. A Kind of Magic? The Law of Jealousy in Numbers 5:11–31 as Magical Ritual and as Ritual Text 149
16. Peter and Simon in the Acts of Peter: between Magic and Miracles 169
17. Paul and Magic: Complementary or Incongruent Entities? Scholarly use of the Concept of Magic, its Definition, and Prevalence of Magic in Paul’s World 181
18. How Biblical Verses Became an Enchantment against the Evil Eye (Genesis 48:16; 49:22 in Berakhot 20a; 55 b) 211
19. The Use of Biblical Quotations in Jewish Aramaic Incantation Bowls 227
20. Bibliography 247
21. Index 303
22. Index of Ancient Sources 305