Between worlds : dybbuks, exorcists, and early modern Judaism / J.H. Chajes.
Between worlds : dybbuks, exorcists, and early modern Judaism / J.H. Chajes.
Between worlds : dybbuks, exorcists, and early modern Judaism / J.H. Chajes.
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Publisher
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2003.
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N296.316/ 2
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Language
English
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Physical content
p. cm.
Contents
1. The Emergence of Dybbuk Possession -- 2. The Dead and the Possessed -- 3. The Task of the Exorcist -- 4. Dybbuk Possession and Women's Religiosity -- 5. Skeptics and Storytellers -- App. Spirit Possession Narratives from Early Modern Jewish Sources.
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Publisher
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2003.
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania
Date Published
c2003.
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Summary
"Between Worlds provides descriptions of the cases of possession as well as analysis of the magical techniques deployed by rabbinic exorcists to expel the ghostly intruders.".
Exploring a phenomenon that bridged learned and ignorant, rich and poor, men and women, Jews and Gentiles, Between Worlds maps for the first time a prominent feature of the early modern Jewish religious landscape, as quotidian as it was portentous: the nexus of the living and the dead."--BOOK JACKET....
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Between worlds : dybbuks, exorcists, and early modern Judaism / J.H. Chajes.
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Jewish culture and contexts.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c2003.
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N296.316/ 2
Record Identifier
74VK2B06deWd
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK2B06deWd
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ISBN
0812237242 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780812237245 (cloth : alk. paper)
DDC
296.316
MMS ID
991018176549702626
