Ancient Jewish Magic by Gideon Bohak HARDBACK 9780521874571

Cambridge University Press

Ancient Jewish Magic\nby Gideon Bohak\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Gideon Bohak\nTitle: Ancient Jewish Magic\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Judaism\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521874571\nISBN-10: 0521874572\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThis history of ancient Jewish magic, from the Second Temple to the rabbinic period, is based both on the ancient magicians' own compositions and on the descriptions and prescriptions of non-magicians. It studies developments arising within the Jewish tradition as well as cross-cultural borrowings from Greco-Egyptian sources.\n\nThis history of ancient Jewish magic, from the Second Temple to the rabbinic period, is based both on the ancient magicians' own compositions and on the descriptions and prescriptions o.