Solomonic Magic: Methodology, Texts, and Histories: Magical and Religious Literature of Late Antiquity, cartea 11
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9789004546776
ISBN-10: 9004546774
Pagini: 376
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Magical and Religious Literature of Late Antiquity
ISBN-10: 9004546774
Pagini: 376
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Magical and Religious Literature of Late Antiquity
Notă biografică
Gal Sofer, MD, PhD, is a senior lecturer in the Department of the Arts at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He has studied medieval and early modern magic and Kabbalah, focusing on knowledge transmission and transformation across linguistic boundaries.
Cuprins
Preface
List of Figures and Tables
A Note on Hebrew Transliteration
1 Philology
1 Genes and Scale Shifting
2 Textual Networks
2 Solomonic Magic: A Term in Flux or a Distinct Tradition?
1 Defining through Polemical Discourses
2 The Anatomical Anomaly of “Solomonic Magic”
3 From Micro(s) to Macro: Multi-Sources and Scribal Strategies
1 Practitioners’ Confessions
2 Genesis Narratives
Part 1: Summary
Clusters and Nodes: A Brief Introduction
4 Liber Bileth (LB)
1Liber Bileth: Fusing Two Texts into One
2 The Book of Spirits
3 The Marvelous Ring
4Liber Bileth: Preliminary Intra-Clusteric Genetic Analysis
5 Clavicula Salomonis (CS)
1 Italian and Latin Claviculae: The Clavicula’s Ritual and Six Methods
2 An English Clavicula: The Return of Bileth Son of Aned
3 French Clavicula
4 Hebrew Claviculae
5Clavicula Salomonis: Preliminary Intra-Clusteric Genetic Analysis
6 Sapientia Salomonis (SP)
1 A Consecrated Catalog of Demons
2Liber consecrationum
3Ḥokhmat Shlomo: The Hebrew SPs
4Sapientia Salomonis: Preliminary Intra-Clusteric Genetic Analysis
5Liber centum regum
6 Intra- and Inter-Clusteric Analysis
Part 2: Summary
Introduction: Beyond the Solomonic Veil
7 The Babylonian Background
1Ḥover Ḥaver—The Reception of a Biblical Term
2 Babylonian Jews and Demons—Expelling or Gathering?
8 Sefer Haqqevitza
1 Gathering Demons in Fustat—Sefer Haqqevitza and the Four Elements
2Sefer Haqqevitza—A Babylonian Component of the Solomonic Network
3 Solomonic Attribution
4 Where Are You, Arabic Sources? Some Short Notes on a Great Lacuna
9 Binding Demons in Medieval Ashkenaz and Provence
1 Ashkenazic Ḥasidim and Sefer Haqqevitza
2 The Chiefs of the Teli
3 The Demonology of the Kohen Brothers
10 Binding Demons in Medieval Spain—The Astral Turn
1 Moses of Burgos and Nachmanides
2Liber Razielis
3Berit Menuḥa
11 Berengar Ganell and Liber Theysolius
1 The Magisterium and the Summa
2 Repositories of Names: The Case of Liber Theysolius
12 The Age of the Clavicula
1Clavicula Salomonis: An Italian Reaction to Information Overload
2SQR Genes in the Early Modern Period
3 Abraham Colorni and the Untold Story of the Hebrew Claviculae
13 Curating Wisdom—The Art of Knowledge Cataloging
1 Making Catalogs I: Demons
2 Making Catalogs II: Pentacles
14 The Greek Myth
1 Rethinking the Hygromanteia Hypothesis
2 Catoptromancy and the Solomonic Network
Part 3: Summary
Solomonic Magic: Final Thoughts
Bibliography
Index
List of Figures and Tables
A Note on Hebrew Transliteration
Part 1 Methodology
1 Philology
1 Genes and Scale Shifting
2 Textual Networks
2 Solomonic Magic: A Term in Flux or a Distinct Tradition?
1 Defining through Polemical Discourses
2 The Anatomical Anomaly of “Solomonic Magic”
3 From Micro(s) to Macro: Multi-Sources and Scribal Strategies
1 Practitioners’ Confessions
2 Genesis Narratives
Part 1: Summary
Part 2 Texts
Clusters and Nodes: A Brief Introduction
4 Liber Bileth (LB)
1Liber Bileth: Fusing Two Texts into One
2 The Book of Spirits
3 The Marvelous Ring
4Liber Bileth: Preliminary Intra-Clusteric Genetic Analysis
5 Clavicula Salomonis (CS)
1 Italian and Latin Claviculae: The Clavicula’s Ritual and Six Methods
2 An English Clavicula: The Return of Bileth Son of Aned
3 French Clavicula
4 Hebrew Claviculae
5Clavicula Salomonis: Preliminary Intra-Clusteric Genetic Analysis
6 Sapientia Salomonis (SP)
1 A Consecrated Catalog of Demons
2Liber consecrationum
3Ḥokhmat Shlomo: The Hebrew SPs
4Sapientia Salomonis: Preliminary Intra-Clusteric Genetic Analysis
5Liber centum regum
6 Intra- and Inter-Clusteric Analysis
Part 2: Summary
Part 3 Histories
Introduction: Beyond the Solomonic Veil
7 The Babylonian Background
1Ḥover Ḥaver—The Reception of a Biblical Term
2 Babylonian Jews and Demons—Expelling or Gathering?
8 Sefer Haqqevitza
1 Gathering Demons in Fustat—Sefer Haqqevitza and the Four Elements
2Sefer Haqqevitza—A Babylonian Component of the Solomonic Network
3 Solomonic Attribution
4 Where Are You, Arabic Sources? Some Short Notes on a Great Lacuna
9 Binding Demons in Medieval Ashkenaz and Provence
1 Ashkenazic Ḥasidim and Sefer Haqqevitza
2 The Chiefs of the Teli
3 The Demonology of the Kohen Brothers
10 Binding Demons in Medieval Spain—The Astral Turn
1 Moses of Burgos and Nachmanides
2Liber Razielis
3Berit Menuḥa
11 Berengar Ganell and Liber Theysolius
1 The Magisterium and the Summa
2 Repositories of Names: The Case of Liber Theysolius
12 The Age of the Clavicula
1Clavicula Salomonis: An Italian Reaction to Information Overload
2SQR Genes in the Early Modern Period
3 Abraham Colorni and the Untold Story of the Hebrew Claviculae
13 Curating Wisdom—The Art of Knowledge Cataloging
1 Making Catalogs I: Demons
2 Making Catalogs II: Pentacles
14 The Greek Myth
1 Rethinking the Hygromanteia Hypothesis
2 Catoptromancy and the Solomonic Network
Part 3: Summary
Solomonic Magic: Final Thoughts
Bibliography
Index