Aramaic Bowl Spells. Jewish Babylonian Aramaic Bowls. Volume One

Leiden: Brill, 2013. Hardcover. Fine. Quarto (11-1/4" x 8-3/4"). xxiii, (5), 368pp. Dark blue over pictorial olive boards, spine lettered in white. Illustrated with 85 photos of bowls with some enhanced drawings of details. A fine, as new volume.

This volume presents editions of sixty-four Jewish Aramaic incantation bowls from the Schøyen Collection, with accompanying introductions, translations, philological notes, photographs and indices, relating to the magical divorce and the wonder-working sages Hanina ben Dosa and Joshua bar Perahia. (OCLC)

The corpus of Aramaic incantation bowls from Sasanian Mesopotamia is perhaps the most important source we have for studying the everyday beliefs and practices of the Jewish, Christian, Mandaean, Manichaean, Zoroastrian and Pagan communities on the eve of the Islamic conquests. The bowls are from the Schøyen Collection, which has some 650 texts in different varieties of Aramaic: Jewish Aramaic, Mandaic and Syriac, and forms the largest collection of its kind anywhere in the world. This volume presents editions of sixty-four Jewish Aramaic incantation bowls, with accompanying introductions, translations, philological notes, photographs and indices. The themes covered include the magical divorce and the accounts of the wonder-working sages Ḥanina ben Dosa and Joshua bar Peraḥia. It is the first of a multi-volume project that aims to publish the entire Schøyen Collection of Aramaic incantation bowls. (Publisher)

Contents: Preface; List of Figures; List of Photographs; Abbreviations; List of Other Bowls; Sigla; Introduction; The Historical, Literary and Religious Context; Terms Designating ""Bowl"", ""Amulet"" and ""Spell""; The Structure of an Incantation; Single-Spell Incantations; Multi-Spell Incantations; Literary Features; Historiolae; Biblical Quotations; Echoes of Biblical Themes; Prayer Book Quotations and Allusions; Mishnaic Quotations; Echoes of Hekhalot; The Art of the Aramaic Incantation Bowls; Stylistic Aspects of the Figures Appearing on the Incantation Bowls; The Artists' Sources.; The Link between the Texts and the DrawingsThe Drawings of the Incantation Bowls -- A Magic Art; Summary; Linguistic Features of the Texts in This Volume; Orthography and Phonology; Use of 'aleph and he; [Shewa]; /a/; Assimilation, Dissimilation, and Other Sound Changes; Affixed Pronouns; 2 p.; 3 p. fem. sg.; The Verb; Perfect; Imperfect; Imperative; Participles; Numerals; Syntax; Particles; Vocabulary; Conclusion; I.1. RABBI HANINA BEN DOSA; Introduction; JBA 1 (MS 1927/8); JBA 2 (MS 1927/29); JBA 3 (MS 1927/45); JBA 4 (MS 1927/47); JBA 5 (MS 1927/64); JBA 6 (MS 2053/10); JBA 7 (MS 2053/12).; JBA 8 (MS 2053/55)JBA 9 (MS 2053/183); JBA 10 (MS 2053/185); I.1.1. RABBI HANINA BEN DOSA (OMITTED BY HAPLOGRAPHY); Introduction; JBA 11 (MS 2053/79); JBA 12 (MS 2053/178); I.2. DIVORCE TEXTS; Introduction; I.2.1. DIVORCE TEXTS: JOSHUA BAR PERAHIA; Introduction; JBA 13 (MS 1927/5); JBA 14 (MS 1927/39); JBA 15 (MS 1927/43); JBA 16 (MS 1929/16); JBA 17 (MS 2053/33); JBA 18 (MS 2053/103); JBA 19 (MS 2053/132); JBA 20 (MS 2053/150); JBA 21 (MS 2053/164); JBA 22 (MS 2053/165); JBA 23 (MS 2053/206); JBA 24 (MS 2053/251); JBA 25 (MS 2053/280).; I.2.1.1. Joshua bar Perahia (with Magical Excommunication rather than Divorce)Introduction; JBA 26 (MS 1928/43); I.2.2. DIVORCE TEXTS; Introduction; JBA 27 (MS 1927/16); JBA 28 (MS 1927/25); JBA 29 (MS 1927/51); JBA 30 (MS 1928/47); JBA 31 (MS 2053/41); JBA 32 (MS 2053/64); JBA 33 (MS 2053/83); JBA 34 (MS 2053/86); JBA 35 (MS 2053/89); JBA 36 (MS 2053/110); JBA 37 (MS 2053/123); JBA 38 (MS 2053/151); JBA 39 (MS 2053/162); JBA 40 (MS 2053/167); JBA 41 (MS 2053/184); JBA 42 (MS 2053/190); JBA 43 (MS 2053/193); JBA 44 (MS 2053/213); JBA 45 (MS 2053/237); JBA 46 (MS 2053/249).; JBA 47 (MS 2053/258)I.2.2.1. DIVORCE TEXTS; Introduction; JBA 48 (MS 2053/200); JBA 49 (MS 2053/270); I.2.3. DIVORCE TEXTS; Introduction; JBA 50 (MS 2053/207); JBA 51 (MS 2053/209); JBA 52 (MS 2053/231); JBA 53 (MS 2053/253); JBA 54 (MS 2053/273); I.2.4. DIVORCE TEXTS; Introduction; JBA 55 (MS 1928/1); JBA 56 (MS 1928/8); JBA 57 (MS 2053/36); JBA 58 (MS 2053/166); JBA 59 (MS 2053/174); JBA 60 (MS 2053/212); JBA 61 (MS 2053/214); JBA 62 (MS 2053/242); JBA 63 (MS 2053/250); JBA 64 (MS 2053/256); GLOSSARY, LISTS, BIBLIOGRAPHY AND INDEX; Glossary. (OCLC)

A volume in 3 Brill series: Volume 1 of "Magical and Religious Literature of Late Antiuity." Volume 1 of "Jewish Babylonian Aramaic Bowls." Volume 20 of "Manuscripts in the Schoyen Collection." " (MRLA/1).