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

by Brian B. Schmidt

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
  • 23.7 x 16.1 x 1.4 cm

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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 apotropaism over which YHWH and Asherah, portrayed as the quintessential protective deities Bes and Beset, governed. In addition to Asherah's role in this realm as YHWH's mediatrix, various other material media including amulets, inscribed blessings, decorated jars served to convey apotropaism's empowerment to humanity.
The Materiality of Power: Explorations in the Social History of Ancient Israelite Magic and Contextualizing Israel's Sacred Writings : Ancient Literacy, Orality, and Literary Production
Contextualizing Israel's Sacred Writings : Ancient Literacy, Orality, and Literary ProductionThe Materiality of Power: Explorations in the Social History of Ancient Israelite Magic

  • Author

    Brian B. Schmidt

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Mohr Siebeck

  • Published

    May 2016

  • Weight

    559g

  • Dimensions

    23.7 x 16.1 x 1.4 cm

  • ISBN

    9783161533020

  • ISBN-10

    316153302X

  • Eden Code

    4891906

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