Spirit Possession In Judaism
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Spirit Possession In Judaism
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Author : Matt Goldish
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2003
Spirit Possession In Judaism written by Matt Goldish and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
This extraordinary collection of essays is the first to approach the phenomenon of spirit possession among Jews from a multidisciplinary perspective. What beliefs have Jews held about spirit possession? Have Jewish people believed themselves to be possessed by spirits? If so, what sorts of spirits were they? Have Jews' conceptions of possession been the same as those of their Christian and Muslim neighbors? These are some of the questions addressed in these thirteen essays, which together explore spirit possession in a wide range of temporal and geographic contexts. The phenomena known as spirit possession are both very widespread and very difficult to explain. The late Raphael Patai initiated study of spirit possession as found in the Jewish world in the post-Talmudic period by taking a folkloric and anthropological approach to the subject. Other scholars have opened up new avenues of inquiry through discussions of the topic in connection with Jewish mystical and magical traditions. The essays in this collection expand the variety of approaches to the subject, addressing Jewish possession phenomena from the points of view of religion, mysticism, literature, anthropology, psychology, history, and folklore. Scholarly views and popular traditions, benevolent spirits and malevolent shades, exorcism, social control, messianic implications, madness, literary structure, and a host of other topics are brought into the discussion of spirit possession in Jewish culture. This juxtaposition of approaches among the essays in this volume, some of which analyze the same texts in different ways, creates a broad foundation on which to contemplate the meaning of spirit possession.
Between Worlds
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Author : J. H. Chajes
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2012-03-07
Between Worlds written by J. H. Chajes and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-07 with Religion categories.
After a nearly two-thousand-year interlude, and just as Christian Europe was in the throes of the great Witch Hunt and what historians have referred to as "The Age of the Demoniac," accounts of spirit possession began to proliferate in the Jewish world. Concentrated at first in the Near East but spreading rapidly westward, spirit possession, both benevolent and malevolent, emerged as perhaps the most characteristic form of religiosity in early modern Jewish society. Adopting a comparative historical approach, J. H. Chajes uncovers this strain of Jewish belief to which scant attention has been paid. Informed by recent research in historical anthropology, Between Worlds provides fascinating descriptions of the cases of possession as well as analysis of the magical techniques deployed by rabbinic exorcists to expel the ghostly intruders. Seeking to understand the phenomenon of spirit possession in its full complexity, Chajes delves into its ideational framework—chiefly the doctrine of reincarnation—while exploring its relation to contemporary Christian and Islamic analogues. Regarding spirit possession as a form of religious expression open to—and even dominated by—women, Chajes initiates a major reassessment of women in the history of Jewish mysticism. In a concluding section he examines the reception history of the great Hebrew accounts of spirit possession, focusing on the deployment of these "ghost stories" in the battle against incipient skepticism in the turbulent Jewish community of seventeenth-century Amsterdam. Exploring a phenomenon that bridged learned and ignorant, rich and poor, men and women, Jews and Gentiles, Between Worlds maps for the first time a prominent feature of the early modern Jewish religious landscape, as quotidian as it was portentous: the nexus of the living and the dead.
Unfamiliar Selves In The Hebrew Bible
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Author : Reed Carlson
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2022-01-19
Unfamiliar Selves In The Hebrew Bible written by Reed Carlson and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-19 with Religion categories.
Spirit possession is more commonly associated with late Second Temple Jewish literature and the New Testament than it is with the Hebrew Bible. In Unfamiliar Selves in the Hebrew Bible, however, Reed Carlson argues that possession is also depicted in this earlier literature, though rarely according to the typical western paradigm. This new approach utilizes theoretical models developed by cultural anthropologists and ethnographers of contemporary possession-practicing communities in the global south and its diasporas. Carlson demonstrates how possession in the Bible is a corporate and cultivated practice that can function as social commentary and as a means to model the moral self. The author treats a variety of spirit phenomena in the Hebrew Bible, including spirit language in the Psalms and Job, spirit empowerment in Judges and Samuel, and communal possession in the prophets. Carlson also surveys apotropaic texts and spirit myths in early Jewish literature—including the Dead Sea Scrolls. In this volume, two recent scholarly trends in biblical studies converge: investigations into notions of evil and of the self. The result is a synthesizing project, useful to biblical scholars and those of early Judaism and Christianity alike.
Dybbuks And Jewish Women In Social History Mysticism And Folklore
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Author : Rachel Elior
language : en
Publisher: Urim Publications
Release Date : 2008-09-01
Dybbuks And Jewish Women In Social History Mysticism And Folklore written by Rachel Elior and has been published by Urim Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-01 with Religion categories.
How and why a person comes to be possessed by a dybbuk—the possession of a living body by the soul of a deceased person—and what consequences ensue from such possession, form the subject of this book. Though possession by a dybbuk has traditionally been understood as punishment for a terrible sin, it can also be seen as a mechanism used by desperate individuals—often women—who had no other means of escape from the demands and expectations of an all-encompassing patriarchal social order. Dybbuks and Jewish Women examines these and other aspects of dybbuk possession from historical and phenomenological perspectives, with particular attention to the gender significance of the subject.
The Spirit In First Century Judaism
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Author : John R. Levison
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 1997
The Spirit In First Century Judaism written by John R. Levison and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Religion categories.
The Spirit in First Century Judaism lays a cornerstone in the foundation of pneumatological studies by scouring ancient writings like Plato and Plutarch, Daniel and the Dead Sea Scrolls, as well as those of Philo of Alexandria and Flavius Josephus. This publication has also been published in hardback, please click here for details.
Jesus And The Impurity Of Spirits In The Synoptic Gospels
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Author : Clinton Wahlen
language : en
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Release Date : 2004
Jesus And The Impurity Of Spirits In The Synoptic Gospels written by Clinton Wahlen and has been published by Mohr Siebeck this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Religion categories.
This study sheds light on Jewish and early Christian reflections on spirits and demons and explores the relation between Judaism and early Christianity in the first century.
Experientia
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Author : Frances Flannery
language : en
Publisher: Society of Biblical Lit
Release Date : 2008
Experientia written by Frances Flannery and has been published by Society of Biblical Lit this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Literary Criticism categories.
An investigation of religious experience in early Judaism and early Christianity.
The Origin Of Evil Spirits
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Author : Archie T. Wright
language : en
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Release Date : 2013-11-26
The Origin Of Evil Spirits written by Archie T. Wright and has been published by Mohr Siebeck this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-26 with Religion categories.
How do we account for the explosion of demonic activity in the New Testament? Archie T. Wright examines the trajectory of the origin of evil spirits in early Jewish literature. His work traces the development of the concept of evil spirits from the Hebrew Bible (Genesis 6) through post-biblical Jewish literature. "I would in fact recommend this book, not because of the answers it gives, but the questions it raises." -- Philip R. Davies in Journal of Semitic Studies 55 (2010) "This work is marked by several strengths. First, Wright shows an impressive command of the primary and secondary literature. Second, this writer appreciates Wright's tendency to express cautious conclusions regarding historical and source-critical matters. These qualities are especially helpful in a work dealing with the reception history of a given text. Third, Wright has an extremely helpful discussion of the identity of the nephilim of Gen. 6:4 (80-83)." -- Mark D. Owens in Faith & Mission 24 (2007), pp. 68-70
Demons Angels And Writing In Ancient Judaism
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Author : Annette Yoshiko Reed
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-01-16
Demons Angels And Writing In Ancient Judaism written by Annette Yoshiko Reed and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-16 with Religion categories.
A new explanation of the beginnings of Jewish angelology and demonology, drawing on non-canonical writings and Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls.
The Dybbuk
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Author : S. An-Ski
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1926
The Dybbuk written by S. An-Ski and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1926 with Brides categories.
The Dybbuk is a haunting tale about ill-fated love, possession, and exorcism in a small Jewish town in Eastern Europe. It was originally called "Between Two Worlds," which is also an apt description of the life of this unusual writer.