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

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The Materiality of Power: Explorations in the Social History of Ancient Israelite Magic - Schmidt, Brian B
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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 living and the dead. The same data also preserve a countervailing realm of ...

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The Materiality of Power: Explorations in the Social History of Ancient Israelite Magic 2016, Mohr Siebeck, Tuebingen

ISBN-13: 9783161533020

Hardcover