Scholastic Magic: Ritual and Revelation in Early Jewish Mysticism

by Michael D. Swartz

Book Overview

In exploring the social background of early Jewish mysticism, Scholastic Magic tells the story of how imagination and magic were made to serve memory and scholasticism. In the visionary literature that circulated between the fifth and ninth centuries, there are strange tales of ancient rabbis conjuring the angel known as Sar-Torah, the "Prince of the Torah." This angel endowed the rabbis themselves with spectacular memory and skill...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691605912
• ISBN13: 9780691605913
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"