[PDF.59rr] Between Worlds: Dybbuks, Exorcists, and Early Modern Judaism (Jewish Culture and Contexts)

Between Worlds: Dybbuks, Exorcists, and Early Modern Judaism (Jewish Culture and Contexts)

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 | #2925549 in Books |  University of Pennsylvania Press |  2003-07-03 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x6.25 x1.25l,1.30 | File type: PDF | 288 pages

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||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Warning: Scholarly work ahead. Keep a dictionary and the internet handy. Proceed with caution.|By Warlock5555|Between Worlds is dense with knowledge on the history of exorcisms and demon possession especially as it pertains to Judaism and kabbalah. It is one of the only books I am aware of that attempts to put in historical perspective the phenomenon. The vast array of source t| ||"Chajes's excellent new book . . . succeeds in demystifying the subject of Jewish spirit (i.e., "dybbuk") possession by placing it within a broader cross-cultural and historical context, a s sophisticated methodological approach he calls a 'historical anthrop

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.
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Between Worlds: Dybbuks, Exorcists, and Early Modern Judaism (Jewish Culture and Contexts)   |  J. H. Chajes. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.

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