3. Accusations of actually practicing magic can sometimes appear in modern contexts and
reflect the enduring power of this discourse. Shaw, Memories of the Slave Trade, 206, for …

Rabbis, Sorcerers, Kings, and Priests examines the impact of the Persian Sasanian context
on the Babylonian Talmud, perhaps the most important corpus in the Jewish sacred canon …

Rabbinic tales of drought, disaster, and charismatic holy men illuminate critical questions
about power, ethics, and ecology in Jewish late antiquity. Through a sustained reading of …

Recent years have seen a steady rise in the scholarly interest in intermediary beings in Late
Antique Judaism. The present article traces developments in the academic study of …

This dissertation examines the ways that bodies are used in defining the boundaries
between pious 'religion'and illicit 'magic'in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic literatures of the …

This dissertation examines the emergence and development of traditions of family law
among East Syrian and West Syrian Christians in Muslim-ruled Syria, Iraq, and Iran between …

In recent years, the study of demons in late antique Christianity has taken off; by comparison,
the study of late ancient Jewish demonology has arguably lagged behind. In the broader …

Abstract MC 77.233, an incantation bowl in Jewish Babylonian Aramaic script held in the
Magnes Collection, is here published for the first time. Written primarily for Ḥammādā …

For the rabbis, female corporeality–and the control of the female body through rules and
regulations–was the locus for (decidedly male) rabbinic piety, and a means for the rabbis to …

Abstract Morton Smith (1978), Dominic Crossan (1994), Gabriele Cornelli (2006), Daniel
Justi (2010) and André Chevitarese (2017, 2022) argue that Jesus of Nazareth was a …