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Aramaic Bowl Spells Magical and Religious Literature of Late Antiquity SeriesEditors ShaulShaked SiamBhayro VOLUME1 Thetitlespublishedinthisseriesarelistedatbrill.com/mrla Jewish Babylonian Aramaic Bowls VOLUME1 Manuscripts in the Schøyen Collection VOLUME20 Aramaic Bowl Spells Jewish Babylonian Aramaic Bowls Volume One By ShaulShaked JamesNathanFord SiamBhayro Withcontributionsfrom MatthewMorgenstern NaamaVilozny LEIDEN•BOSTON 2013 Coverillustration:JBA55(MS1928/1)courtesyoftheSchøyenCollection. TheprintsinthisvolumewerephotographedbyDrMatthewMorgenstern. © photographs:DrMatthewMorgensternandtheSchøyenCollection. ThedrawingsinthisvolumewerecreatedbyDrNaamaVilozny. © drawings:DrNaamaVilozny. Shaked,Shaul. Aramaicbowlspells:JewishBabylonianAramaicbowls/byShaulShaked,JamesNathanFord,SiamBhayro;with contributionsfromMatthewMorgenstern,NaamaVilozny. volumecm.–(Magicalandreligiousliteratureoflateantiquity;volume1) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-90-04-20394-5(hardback:alk.paper)–ISBN978-90-04-22937-2(e-book)1.Incantations,Aramaic.2. Incantationbowls.3.Jewishmagic–History.4.Sch?yenCollection.I.Title. PJ5208.A2S532013 492'.2–dc23 2013009563 Thispublicationhasbeentypesetinthemultilingual“Brill”typeface.Withover5,100characterscoveringLatin,IPA,Greek, andCyrillic,thistypefaceisespeciallysuitableforuseinthehumanities.Formoreinformation,pleaseseewww.brill.com/ brill-typeface. ISSN2211-016X ISBN978-90-04-20394-5(hardback) ISBN978-90-04-22937-2(e-book) Copyright2013byKoninklijkeBrillNV,Leiden,TheNetherlands. KoninklijkeBrillNVincorporatestheimprintsBrill,GlobalOriental,HoteiPublishing, IDCPublishersandMartinusNijhoffPublishers. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,translated,storedin aretrievalsystem,ortransmittedinanyformorbyanymeans,electronic,mechanical, photocopying,recordingorotherwise,withoutpriorwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher. 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CONTENTS Preface.............................................................................................. xiii ListofFigures....................................................................................... xvii ListofPhotographs ................................................................................. xix Abbreviations....................................................................................... xxi ListofOtherBowls ................................................................................. xxv Sigla.................................................................................................xxvii Introduction........................................................................................ 1 TheHistorical,LiteraryandReligiousContext ................................................. 1 TermsDesignating“Bowl”,“Amulet”and“Spell”................................................ 8 TheStructureofanIncantation ................................................................ 8 Single-SpellIncantations................................................................... 9 Multi-SpellIncantations ................................................................... 10 LiteraryFeatures ............................................................................... 13 Historiolae.................................................................................. 13 BiblicalQuotations......................................................................... 18 EchoesofBiblicalThemes ................................................................. 20 PrayerBookQuotationsandAllusions..................................................... 21 MishnaicQuotations....................................................................... 22 EchoesofHekhalot......................................................................... 23 TheArtoftheAramaicIncantationBowls(NaamaVilozny) ....................................... 29 StylisticAspectsoftheFiguresAppearingontheIncantationBowls........................... 30 TheArtists’Sources............................................................................. 33 TheLinkbetweentheTextsandtheDrawings ................................................. 35 TheDrawingsoftheIncantationBowls—AMagicArt......................................... 36 Summary ....................................................................................... 37 LinguisticFeaturesoftheTextsinThisVolume(MatthewMorgenstern) ........................... 39 OrthographyandPhonology ................................................................... 40 Useofʾalephandhe ........................................................................ 40 Shewa ...................................................................................... 41 /ā/.......................................................................................... 41 Assimilation,Dissimilation,andOtherSoundChanges.................................... 41 AffixedPronouns............................................................................... 42 TheVerb........................................................................................ 43 Perfect...................................................................................... 43 Imperfect................................................................................... 44 Imperative ................................................................................. 44 Participles.................................................................................. 45 Numerals....................................................................................... 45 Syntax .......................................................................................... 46 Particles ........................................................................................ 46

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This volume presents editions of sixty-four Jewish Aramaic incantation bowls from the Schøyen Collection, with accompanying introductions, translations, philological notes, photographs and indices, relating to the magical divorce and the wonder-working sages anina ben Dosa and Joshua bar Peraia.