The Materiality of Power: Explorations in the Social History of Ancient Israelite Magic

by Brian B Schmidt and Brian B. Schmidt

Brian B. Schmidt presents five case studies in which architectural spaces, artifacts, epigraphs, images and biblical manuscripts corroborate the existence of a robust daimonic realm in late pre-exilic Israel, along with an embryonic pandemonium. The material and epigraphic data from Kuntillet Ajrud, Ketef Hinnom, and Khirbet el-Qom, along with the manuscript evidence from Deut 32 and 1 Sam 28, indicate that pandemonium members wreaked havoc on the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 316153302X
• ISBN13: 9783161533020
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.