Babylonian Jewish Society: The Evidence of the Incantation Bowls.
Since their discovery, the Jewish Babylonian Aramaic incantation bowls have typically been understood to represent "popular" Jewish religious practice that stood in marked contrast with the scholastic rabbinic elite. As a result of this characterization, the usefulness of the bowls for understanding...
| Publicado en: | Jewish Quarterly Review Vol. 112; no. 1; pp. 1 - 32 |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
Winter2022
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