Aramaic Bowl Spells: Jewish Babylonian Aramaic Bowls Volume Two

by Shaul Shaked and James Nathan Ford

The corpus of Aramaic magic bowls from Sasanian Mesopotamia is perhaps the most important source we have for studying the everyday beliefs and practices of the Jewish, Christian, Mandaean, Manichaean, Zoroastrian and Pagan communities on the eve of the Islamic conquests. The bowls published in this volume are from the Sch yen Collection, which has over 650 texts in Jewish Babylonian Aramaic, Mandaic and Syriac, and forms the largest collection of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004471707
• ISBN13: 9789004471702
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 336 Pages