Demons in the Details

Demonic Discourse and Rabbinic Culture in Late Antique Babylonia

Demons in the Details
Sara Ronis
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Hardback
h229 x 152mm - 316pg
9 Aug 2022 US
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9780520386174
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The Babylonian Talmud is full of stories of demonic encounters and laws that attempt to regulate those encounters. In this book, Sara Ronis takes the reader on a journey across the rabbinic canon, exploring how Late Antique rabbis imagined, feared, and controlled demons. Ronis contextualizes the Talmud' s thought within the rich cultural matrix of Sasanian Babylonia, putting rabbinic thinking in conversation with Sumerian, Akkadian, Ugaritic, Syriac Christian, Zoroastrian, and Second Temple Jewish texts about demons to delve into the interactive communal context in which the rabbis created boundaries between the human and the supernatural, and between themselves and other religious communities. Demons in the Details explores the wide range of approaches that the rabbis took to their neighbors' beliefs and practices, out of which they created a profoundly Jewish demonology.
Sara Ronis is Associate Professor of Theology at St. Mary' s University in San Antonio, Texas.
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ISBN-13: 9780520386174
Published: 9 Aug 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: University of California Press
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 544g
Pages: 316

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