Demons in the Details

Demonic Discourse and Rabbinic Culture in Late Antique Babylonia
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-520-38617-4
Verlag: UCAL POD

Buch, Englisch, 316 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 577 g

Reihe: University of California Press

The Babylonian Talmud is full of stories of demonic encounters, and it also includes many laws that attempt to regulate such encounters. In this book, Sara Ronis takes the reader on a journey across the rabbinic canon, exploring how late antique rabbis imagined, feared, and controlled demons. Ronis contextualizes the Talmud's thought within the rich cultural matrix of Sasanian Babylonia, placing rabbinic thinking in conversation with Sumerian, Akkadian, Ugaritic, Syriac Christian, Zoroastrian, and Second Temple Jewish texts about demons to delve into the interactive communal context in which the rabbis created boundaries between the human and the supernatural, and between themselves and other religious communities. Demons in the Details explores the wide range of ways that the rabbis participated in broader discussions about beliefs and practices with their neighbors, out of which they created a profoundly Jewish demonology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ronis, Sara

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Heilige & Traditionstexte: Torah, Talmud, Mischna, Halacha
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Altorientalische Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte des Judentums (Diaspora)
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte Religionen der Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction
1. Origin Stories
2. Classification Matters
3. How to Avoid Demonic Dangers
4. Legal Demons
5. Serving the Rabbinic Project
6. Exorcising Demons
Conclusion

Bibliography
Subject Index
Index of Jewish Sources

Über Autor(innen)

Sara Ronis is Associate Professor of Theology at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas.