Between Worlds: Dybbuks, Exorcists, and Early Modern JudaismUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 7 mar 2012 - 288 pagine After a nearly two-thousand-year interlude, and just as Christian Europe was in the throes of the great Witch Hunt and what historians have referred to as "The Age of the Demoniac," accounts of spirit possession began to proliferate in the Jewish world. Concentrated at first in the Near East but spreading rapidly westward, spirit possession, both benevolent and malevolent, emerged as perhaps the most characteristic form of religiosity in early modern Jewish society. |
Sommario
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The Dead and the Possessed | 32 |
The Task of the Exorcist | 57 |
Dybbuk Possession and Womens Religiosity | 97 |
Skeptics and Storytellers | 119 |
Arrival | 139 |
Spirit Possession Narratives from Early Modern Jewish Sources | 141 |
Notes | 181 |
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Acknowledgments | 277 |
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