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Shaul Shaked, James Nathan Ford and Siam Bhayro Aramaic Bowl Spells: Jewish Babylonian Aramaic Bowls Volume One (Magical and Religious Literature of Late Antiquity) PDF

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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. AuthorizationtophotocopyitemsforinternalorpersonaluseisgrantedbyKoninklijkeBrillNV providedthattheappropriatefeesarepaiddirectlytoTheCopyrightClearanceCenter, 222RosewoodDrive,Suite910,Danvers,MA01923,USA. Feesaresubjecttochange. Thisbookisprintedonacid-freepaper. DedicatedtothememoryofJosephNaveh(1928–2011), forhisimmensecontributiontothestudyofmagicbowlsandamulets. 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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The corpus of Aramaic incantation 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 are from the
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