Jewish Magic Bibliography - Michael S. Heiser

Jewish Magic Bibliography 

I intend the following bibliography to serve as an aid to the student of Jewish “magic,” 

however defined. It ranges from biblical to modern times and is organized both 

chronologically and by subject with many entries appearing in multiple locations to 

facilitate research. My former undergraduate student Alex Jassen (now an Assistant 

Professor in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies at the University of 

Minnesota) originally compiled the bibliography with the assistance of a Mary Gates 

Undergraduate Research Grant at the University of Washington. More recently, my 

graduate student Jacob Rennaker has helped to correct incomplete information and to 

reformat the bibliography. I now maintain and update the site. If you know of works that 

should be included please send me the complete citation at snoegel@u.washington.edu. 

Prof. Scott Noegel 

University of Washington 

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I. General Magic 

II. General Jewish Magic 

A. Books 

Jewish Magic Bibliography 

Table of Contents 

B. Articles in Periocials and Chapters in Books 

III. Magic in the Bible 

A. General and Comparative Studies 

B. General 

1. Books 

2. Articles in Periodicals and Chapters in Books 

C. Torah 

1. Books 


D. Nebi’im 

1. Books 


E. Ketubim 

1. Books 


F. Technical Terms 


G. Urim and Thummim 

1. Books 


IV. Magic in the Greco-Roman Period 

A. General 

B. General Jewish 

1. Books 


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C. Jewish Literature (Philo, Josephus, Apocrypha, OT Pseudepigrapha) 

1. Books 


D. Greek Magical Papyri 

1. Books 


E. Solomon the Magician 

1. Books 


F. Magic in the Qumran Community 


V. Magic in the Rabbinic Period 

A. Books 

B. Articles in Periodicals and Chapters in Books 

VI. Magic in Late Antiquity 

A. General 

1. Books 


B. Magic and the Merkaba Literature 

1. Books 


C. Sefer Yesira 

1. Books 


D. The Sword of Moses 

1. Versions 

2. Studies 

E. Sefer ha-Razim 

1. Books 


VII. The Aramaic Incantation Bowls 

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A. Books 


C. The Aramaic Cuneiform Incantation 

D. Other Magic Bowl Traditions 

VIII. Magic in the Medieval Period 

A. General 

1. Books 


B. Magic in the Cairo Genizah 

1. Books 


C. Magic and Kabbala 

1. Books 


D. Golem 

1. Books 


E. Maimonides 

F. Alchemy 

1. Books 


G. Sefer Hasidim 

H. The Key of Solomon 

1. Books 


I. Islam 

IX. Magic and the Modern Period 

A. Books 


X. Medicine—Healing 

A. Books 

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C. Books of Seguloth 

XI. Astrology 

A. General 

1. Books 


B. Ancient 

1. Books 


C. Middle Ages 

XII. Amulets 

1. Books 


A. Books 


XIII. Dreams and Dream Interpretation 

A. General 

1. Books 


B. Bible 

1. Books 


C. Ancient 

1. Books 


D. Middle Ages 

1. Books 


E. Modern 

1. Books 


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XIV. Demons, Demonology, and Exorcism 

A. General 

1. Books 


B. Dybbuk 

1. Books 


C. Lilith 

1. Books 


XV. Law, Ritual, and Folklore 

A. Books 


XVI. Evil Eye 

A. General 

B. Books 

C. Articles in Periodicals and Chapters in Books 

XVII. Book Reviews 

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General Magic 

Abusch, Tzvi, and Karel van der Toorn, eds., Mesopotamian Magic: Textual, Historical, 

and Interpretative Perspectives (Ancient Magic and Divination, 1; Groningen: 

Styx, 1999). 

Durkheim, Emile, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (London: George Allen & 

Unwin, 1915). 

Evans-Pritchard, E. E., Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic among the Azande (Oxford: 

Clarendon Press, 1976). 

Frazer, Sir James George, The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion. Edited 

with an introduction by Robert Fraser (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998). 

Frazer, Sir James George, The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (London: 

Macmillan and Co. Limited; New York: The Macmillan Company, 1900). 

Frey, J. B., Corpus Instriptionum Judaicarum. Vols. 1-2 (Rome: Pontifico Istituto di 

Archeologia Cristiana, 1936-52). 

Geertz, H., “An Anthropology of Religion and Magic,” JIH 6 (1975), pp. 71-89. 

Gruenwald, Ithmar, “Magic and Myth: Scholarship and Historical Reality,” in Havivah 

Pedayah, ed., Myth in Judaism, Eshel Beer-Sheba. Vol. 4 (Beer-Sheba: Ben- 

Gurion University, 1996), pp. 15-28. 

King, L. W., Babylonian Magic and Sorcery: Being “The Prayers of the Lifting of the 

Hand” (Hildesheim: Olms, 1975). 

Malinowski, B., Magic, Science, and Religion and Other Essays (New York: Doubleday, 

1948). 

Mauss, Marcel, and Henri Hubert, “Esquisse d’une theorie generale de la magie,” L’anee 

Sociologique 7 (1902-1903), pp. 1-146. 

Mauss, Marcel, A General Theory on Magic (London: Routledge and K. Paul, 1972). 

Ritner, Robert K., The Mechanics of Egyptian Magical Practice (Studies of Ancient 

Oriental Civilization, 54; Oriental Institute of University of Chicago: Chicago, 

1993). 

Smith, Jonathan Z., “The Temple and the Magician,” in J. Z. Smith, Map is Not 

Territory: Studies in the History of Religions (Chicago: University of Chicago 

Press, 1993), pp. 172-189. 

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Thorndike, Lynn, A History of Magic and Experimental Science (New York: MacMillan, 

1923). 

Tyler, E. B., Primitive Culture: Researches in the Development of Mythology, 

Philosophy, Religion, Art, and Custom (London: John Murrey, 1873). 

General Jewish Magic 

Books 

Blau, Ludwig, Das Altjuedische Zauberwesen (Budapest: Jahresbericht der Landes 

Rabbinerschule, 1898) [Reprints: Berlin, 1914; Westmead, England: Gregg, 1970; 

Graz, 1974]. 

Bohak, Gideon, Ancient Jewish Magic: A History (Camrbidge: Cambridge University 

Press, 2008). 

Daniel, R. W., and F. Maltomini, Supplementum Magicum. Vols. 1-2 (Papyrologica 

Coloniensia 16; Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1990-1992). 

Gaster, Moses, Studies and Texts in Folklore, Magic, and Medieval Romance, Hebrew 

Apocrypha, and Samaritan Archaeology. Vols. 1-3 (New York: Ktav, 1971). 

Harari, Yuval, ha-Magyah ha-Yahadut ha-kedumah: iyunim metodologiyim u 

fenomenologiyim (Ph.D. Dissertation: Hebrew University, 1998). 

Isaacs, Ronald H., Divination, Magic, and Healing: The Book of Jewish Folklore 

(Northvale, N.J.: Jason Aaronson, 1998). 

Joel, D., Der Aberglaube und die Stellung des Judenthums zu demselben (Breslau: F.W. 

Jungfer's Buch, 1883). 

Josephy, Marcia Reines, Magic and Superstition in the Jewish Tradition [an exhibition 

organized by the Maurice Spertus Museum of Judaica] (Chicago, IL: Spertus 

College of Judaica Press, 1975). 

Klutz, Todd, ed., Magic in the Biblical World: From the Rod of Aaron to the Ring of 

Solomon (JSNT Supplement 245; London: T & T Clark, 2003). 

Neusner, Jacob, Frerichs, S. Ernest, and Flescher, Paul Virgil McCracken, eds., Religion, 

Science, and Magic: In Concert and in Conflict (New York: Oxford University 

Press, 1989). 

Scholz, Paul, Gotzendienst und Zauberwesen bei den Alten Hebraern und den 

Genochbarten Volkern (Regensburg: G.J. Manz, 1877). 

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Seidel, Jonathan, Studies in Ancient Jewish Magic (Ph.D. Dissertation: University of 

California Berkley, 1996). 

Sharot, Stephen, Messianism, Mysticism, and Magic: A Sociological Analysis of 

JewishReligious Movements (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina 

Press, 1982). 

Trachtenberg, Joshua, Jewish Magic and Superstition (New York: Atheneum, 1974). 

Articles in Periodicals and Chapters in Books 

Ahituv, S., “Divination,” Encyclopaedia Judaica. Vol. 6 (Jerusalem: Keter, 1971), 

pp.111-116. 

Avery-Peck, Alan, “Magic, Magic Bowls, Astrology in Judaism,” in J. Neusner, Alan J. 

Avery Peck, and William Scott Green, eds., Encyclopedia of Judaism (New York: 

Continuum, 1999), pp. 832-844. 

Bar-Levav, Avriel, “Death and the (Blurred) Boundaries of Magic: Strategies of 

Coexistence,” Kabbalah 7 (2002), pp. 51-54. 

Blau, L., “Magic,” Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 8 (New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 

1901-1905), pp. 255-257. 

Bohak, Gideon, “Jewish Myth in Pagan Magic in Antiquity,” in I. Gruenwald and M. 

Idel, eds., Myths in Judaism: History, Thought, Literature (Jerusalem: Shazar, 

2004), pp. 97-122. 

Cohn, H. H., “Sorcery,” Encyclopaedia Judaica. Vol. 15 (Jerusalem: Keter, 1971), pp. 

163-164. 

Dan, Y., “Magic,” Encyclopaedia Judaica. Vol. 11 (Jerusalem: Keter, 1971), pp. 703- 

715. 

Gaster, Moses, “Magic (Jewish),” in J. Hasting, ed., Encyclopaedia of Religion and 

Ethics (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1908-1926), pp. 300-305. 

Harari, Yuval, “What is a Magical Text?: Methodological Reflections Aimed at 

Redefining Early Jewish Magic,” in Shaul Shaked, Officina Magica: Essays on 

the Practice of Magic in Antiquity (Institute of Jewish Studies, Studies in Judaica 

4; Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2005), pp. 91-124. 

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Neusner, Jacob and William S. Green, “Magic,” in J. Neusner and William S. Green, 

eds., Dictionary of Judaism in the Biblical Period. Vol. 2 (New York: Simon & 

Schuster, 1996), pp. 400-401. 

Rabbinowitz, L. I., “Divination,” Encyclopaedia Judaica Vol. 6 (Jerusalem: Keter, 1971), 

pp. 116-118. 

Schafer, Peter, “Magic and Religion in Ancient Judaism,” in Peter Schafer and H.G. 

Kippenberg, eds., Envisioning Magic: A Princeton Seminar and Symposium 

(New York: E. J. Brill, 1997), pp. 19-43. 

Swartz, Michael D., Rebecca Lesses, and Ephraim Kanarfogel, “Jewish Magic: A 

Perspectives Symposium,” AJS 2:1 (2000), pp. 10-15. 

Shaked, Shaul, “Form and Purpose in Aramaic Spells: Some Jewish Themes (The Poetics 

of Magic Texts),” in Shaul Shaked Officina Magica: Essays on the Practice of 

Magic Antiquity (Institute of Jewish Studies, Studies in Judaica 4; Leiden: E. J. 

Brill, 2005), pp. 1-30. 

Wolfson, Elliot R., “Phantasmagoria: The Image of the Image in Jewish Magic from Late 

Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages,” Review of Rabbinic Judaism 4 (2001), pp. 

78-120. 

Magic and the Bible 

General and Comparative Studies 

Frazer, Sir James G., Folklore in the Old Testament: Studies in Comparative Religion, 

Legend and Law. Vols. 1-3 (London: Macmillan, 1918). 

Gaster, Theodor H., Myth, Legend, and Custom in the Old Testament: A Comparative 

Study with Chapters from Sir James G. Frazer’s Folklore in the Old Testament. 

Vols. 1-2 (Gloucester, MS: Peter Smith, 1981). 

Ginzberg, Louis, Legends of the Jews. Vols. 1-7 (Philadelphia: JPS, 1909-1938). 

Smith, W. Robertson, The Religion of the Semites (New York: Schocken Books, 1972). 

General 

Books 

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Braman, Robert Michael, The Problem of Magic in Ancient Israel (Ph.D. Dissertation: 

Drew University, 1989). 

Brichto, J. C., The Problem of “Curse” in the Hebrew Bible (JBL Monograph Series 13; 

Philadelphia Society of Biblical Literature, 1963). 

Ciraolo, Leda, and Jonathan Seidel, eds., Magic and Divination in the Ancient World 

(Ancient Magic and Divination, 2; Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2002). 

Cryer, Fredrick H., Divination in Ancient Israel and its Near Eastern Environment 

(Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1994). 

Cryer, Frederick H., and Marie-Louise Thomsen, Biblical and Pagan Societies 

(Witchcraft and Magic in Europe; Philadelphia, PA.: University of Pennsylvania 

Press, 2001). 

Davies, T. Witton, Magic, Divination, and Demonology Among the Hebrews and Their 

Neighbors (Dissertation: University of Leipzig; Liepzig and London, 1898) 

[Reprint: Ktav, 1969]. 

Driver, G. R., Witchcraft in the Old Testament (Edmonds, WA: Sure Fire Press, 1994). 

Fishbane, Michael, Studies in Biblical Magic, Origins, Uses, and Transformations of 

Terminology and Literary Form (Ph.D. Thesis: Brandeis University, 1971). 

Grabbe, Lestor L., Priests, Diviners, Sages: A Socio-Historical Study of Religious 

Specialists in Ancient Israel (Valley Forge, PA: Trinity Press International, 

1995). 

Guillaume, Alfred, Prophecy and Divination among the Hebrews and other Semites 

(London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1938). 

Hamilton, Mark Wade, Divination in Ancient Israel (M.A. Thesis: Abilene Christian 

University, 1992). 

Jeffers, A., Magic and Divination in Ancient Palestine and Syria (New York: E. J. Brill, 

1996). 

Jirku, A., Die Damonen und ihre abwehr im Alten Testament (Leipzig: A Deichert, 

1912). 

Jirku, A., Mantik in Altisrael (Rostok: Rats- and Universitatsbuch druckerei von Adlers 

Erben, G.m.b.h., 1913). 

Joines, K. R., Serpent Symbolism in the OT (Haddenfield: Haddonfield House, 1974). 

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Kanaan, T., Daemonenglaube im Lande der Bibel (Leipzig, J.C. Hinrichs, 1929). 

Klutz, Todd, ed., Magic in the Biblical World: from the Rod of Aaron to the Ring of 

Solomon (JSOTSS, 245; T & T Clark, 2003). 

Kuemerlin-Mclean, J. K., Divination and Magic in the Religion of Ancient Israel: A 

Study in Perspectives and Methodology (Ph.D. Dissertation: Vanderbilt 


Lewis, T. J., Cults of the Dead in Ancient Israel and Ugarit (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 

1989). 

Luff, Karl T., A Biblical Perspective on the Magic and Divination Found in Some of the 

World’s Religious Systems (Dissertation: Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 

1994). 

Mclean, Charles Victor, Babylonian Astrology and its Relation to the Old Testament 

(Toronto: The United Church Publishing House, 1929). 

Olson, Eric J., Divination in Ancient Israel (M.A. Thesis: Harvard University, 1969). 

Park, Jongsoo, Priestly Divination in Ancient Israel (Ph.D. Dissertation: Drew 


Perry, Charles E., The Theory and Practice of Lot-casting in Ancient Near Eastern 

Countries and Israel (M.Div. Thesis: Grace Theological Seminary, 1975) 

Schmidt, Brian B., Israel’s Beneficent Dead: Ancestor Cult and Necromancy in Ancient 

Israelite Religion and Tradition (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1996). 

Schmitt, Rüdiger, Magie im Alten Testament (Alter Orient und Altes Testament, 313; 

Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2004). 

Smith, Morton, “Old Testament Motifs in the Iconography of the British Museum’s 

Magical Gems,” in Lionel Casson and Martin Price, eds., Coins, Culture and 

History in the Ancient World: Numistmatics and Other Studies in Honor of Bluma 

L. Trell (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1981), pp. 187-194. 

Tropper, Josef, Nekromantie: Totenbefragung im Alten Orient und im Alten Testament 

(Kevelaer: Butzon & Bercker; Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1989). 

Van der Toorn, Karl, et al., eds., Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible (New 

York: E. J. Brill, 1995). 

Volz, D., Das Demonische im Jahwe (Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 1924). 

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Von Stuckrad, K., Frommigkeit und Wissenschaft: Astrologie in Tanach, Qumran, und 

fruhrabbinischer Literature (Europaische Hochschulschriften, 23; Theologie, 572; 

Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1996). 

Vondergeest, Craig, Prophecy and Divination in the Deuteronomistic History (Ph.D. 

Dissertation: Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian 

Education, 2000). 


Adler, Michael, “Was Homer Acquainted with the Bible?” JQR 5 (1893), pp. 170-174. 

Albrecht, Mark, and Alexander Brooks, “Separating Wheat and Chaff: Biblical 

Discernment and Parapsychology,” Journal of Religion and Psychical Research 3 

(1980), pp. 172-209. 

Albright, W. F., “An Aramean Magical Text in Hebrew from the Seventh Century BC,” 

BASOR 76 (1939), pp. 6-11. 

Aouad, Lucian, “La divination dans la Bible,” Revue de Clerge Africain 25 (1970), pp. 

185-205. 

Arzi, P., “Witchcraft,” Encyclopedia Mikrait. Vol. 4 (Jerusalem: Bialik Institute, 1963), 

pp. 348-365. 

Aune, D. E., “Magic,” in G. Bromiley, ed., International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. 

Vol. 3 (Grand Rapids: W. B. Eerdmans, 1979), pp. 213-219. 

Bakon, Shimon, “Witchcraft in the Bible,” Dor le Dor 15 (1987), pp. 234-243. 

Bar-Ilan, Meir, “Witches in the Bible and the Talmud,” in Herbert W. Basser and Simcha 

Fishbane, eds., Approaches to Ancient Judaism. Vol. 5 (Atlanta, GA: Scholars 

Press, 1993), pp. 7-32. 

Baucq, A., “Oracle et Divination,” DBS 6 (1960), pp. 779-782. 

Benko, Stephen, “Magic,” in Paul J. Achtermeier, ed., Harper’s Bible Dictionary (San 

Francisco: Harper & Row, 1985), pp. 594-596. 

Blank, Sheldon H., “The Curse, Blasphemy, the Spell, and the Oath,” HUCA 23 (1950- 

1951), pp. 73-95. 

Bloch-Smith, Elizabeth, “The Cult of the Dead in Judah: Interpreting the Material 

Remains,” JBL 111 (1992), pp. 213-224. 

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Bretherton, Donald, “Psychical Research and the Biblical Prohibitions,” in J. Pearce 

Higgins, ed., Life, Death, and Psychical Research (London: Rider, 1973), pp. 

101-124. 

Bryce, G. E., “Omen Wisdom in Ancient Israel,” JBL 94 (1975), pp. 19-37. 

Burden, J., “Magic and Divination on the OT and their Relevance for the Church in 

Africa,” Missionalia (1973), pp. 103-111. 

Burns, J. B., “Necromancy and the Spirits of the Dead in the Old Testament,” 

Transactions of the Glasgow University Oriental Society 26 (1928), pp. 1-15. 

Caquot, Andres, “La Divinations l’ancien Isreal,” in A. Caquot and M. Leibovici, eds., 

La Divination (Paris: Presses Univeritaires de France, 1968), pp. 83-113. 

Cryer, Frederick H., “Der Prophet und der magier: Bemerkungen anhard einer uberholton 

diskussion,” in R. Liwak, et al., eds., Prophetie und Geschichtliche Wirklichkeit 

(1991), pp. 79-88. 

Dhorme, E., “Pretres, devins, et mages dan l’ancienne religion des Hebrews,” RHR 108 

(1933), pp. 115-143. 

Eissfeldt, O., “Wahrsagung im Alten Testament,” in D. F. Wendel, ed., La Divination 

en Mésopotamie Ancienne et Dans Les Régions Voisines (XIVe Rencontre 

Assyriologique Internationale; Saint-Germain, Paris: Presses Universitaires de 

France, 1966), pp. 141-145. 

Fabian, Dapila N., “The Socio-Religious Role of Witchcraft in the Old Testament 

Culture: an African Insight,” Old Testament Essays 11 (1998), pp. 215-239. 

Finkel, A., “The Pesher of Dreams and Scriptures,” RQ 4 (1963/64), pp. 357-370. 

Fohrer, G., “Prophetie und Magie,” ZAW 78 (1966), pp. 25-47. 

Ford, J. Massyngbearde, “Jewel of Discernment: a Study of Stone Sybmolism [Isa. 8:14 

16; 28:16],” BZ 11 (1967), pp. 109-116. 

Fox, W., “Old Testament Parallels to Tabellae Defixione,” AJSL (1913-1914), pp. 111- 

124. 

Friedman, M. A., “Tamar, a Symbol of Life: The ‘Killer Wife’ Superstition in the Bible 

and Jewish Tradition,” JSR 15 (1990), pp. 23-61. 

Gervitz, S., “West-Semitic Curses and the Problems of the Origin of Hebrew Law,” VT 

11 (1961), pp. 137-158. 

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Goitein, S. D., “Women as Creators of Biblical Genres,” Prooftexts 81 (1988), pp. 1-33. 

Grabbe, Lester, L., “Prophets, Priests, Diviners, and Sages in Ancient Israel,” in Heather 

A. McKay and David J. A. Clines, eds., Of Prophets’ Visions and the Wisdom of 

Sages: Essays in Honor of R. Norman Whybray (Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1993), 

pp. 43-62. 

Grintz, Jehoshua, “Do Not Eat of the Blood: Reconsiderations in Settings and Dating of 

the Priestly Code (Lev. 19:26; I Sam. 14:31-35, Ez. 33:25),” Annual of the 

Swedish Theological Institute 8 (1972), pp. 78-105. 

Grottanelli, Christiano, “Per un mitico giacobbe domestico, pastore, e mago,” in P. Xella, 

ed., Magia: Studi di Storia della Religioni in Memoria di Raffaela Garosi (Roma: 

Bulzoni, 1976), pp. 127-146. 

Grottanelli, Christiano, “Specialisti del soprannaturale e potere nella Bibbia ebraica; 

appunti e spunti,” in F.M Fales e C. Grottanelli, eds., Soprannaturale e potere 

nel mondo antico e nelle societa tradizionali (Milano: Franco Angeli, 1985), pp. 

119-140. 

Grunwald, M., and K. Kohler, “Bibliomancy,” Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 3 (New York: 

Funk & Wagnells, 1901-1905), pp. 202-205. 

Grunwald, M., “Bibliomantie und Gesundbeten,” MGJVK 8 (1902), pp. 81-99. 

Guinan, Ann, “Divination,” in William W. Hallo, ed., The Context of Scripture: 

Canonical Compositions from the Biblical World. Vol. 1 (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 

1997), pp. 421-426. 

Harvey, Graham, “The Suffering of Witches and Children, Uses of Witchcraft Passages 

in the Bible,” in Jon Davies, Graham Harvey, and Wilfred G.E. Watson, eds., 

WorldRemembered Texts: Essays in Honour of John F.A. Sawyer (Sheffield: 

Sheffield Academic Press, 1995), pp. 113-134. 

Hayes, J. H., “The Usage of Oracles against Foreign Nations in Ancient Israel,” JBL 87 

(1968), pp. 81-92. 

Hayward, Robert, “Pseudo-Philo and the Priestly Oracle,” JSS 46 (1995), pp. 43-54. 

Hillers, Delbert R., “The Effective Simile in Biblical Literature,” JAOS 103 (1983), 

pp. 181-185. 

Huffman, Herbert, “Priestly Divination in Israel,” in Carol L. Meyers and M. O’Connor, 

eds., TheWord of the Lord Shall Go Forth: Essays in Honor of David Noel 

Freedman in Celebration of his Sixtieth Birthday (Winona Lake, IN.: 

Eisenbrauns, 1983), pp. 355-359. 

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Hunstman, Eric D., “And They Cast Lots: Divination, Democracy and Josephus,” 

Brigham Young University Studies 36 (1996-1997), pp. 365-377. 

Hutton, Rodney R., “Magic or Street-Theater? The Power of the Prophetic Word,” ZAW 

107 (1995), pp. 247-260. 

Iwry, Samuel, “New Evidence on Belomancy in Ancient Palestine and Phoenicia,” JAOS 

81 (1961), pp. 27-34. 

Jirku, Anton, “Zur Magischen Bedentung des Kleidung in Israel,” ZAW 37 (1917/1918), 

pp. 109-125. 

Jirku, Anton, “Die Mimation in den nordsemitischen Sprachen und einige Bezeichungen 

der altisraelitischen Mantik,” Biblica 34 (1953), pp. 78-80. 

Jirku, Anton, “Ein Fall von Inkubation im Alten Testament (Ex 38:8),” ZAW 33 (1913), 

pp. 151-153. 

Kapelrud, A. S., “Shamanistic Features in the Old Testament,” in Carl Martin Edsman, 

ed., Studies in Shamanism (Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1967), pp. 90-96. 

Kavale, F. K., “A Biblical Study of Witchcraft: With Application for Second and Third 

Generation Christians in Kenya,” African Journal of Evangelical Theology 12 

(1994), pp. 114-133. 

Kuemmerlin-McClean, J. K., “Magic (OT),” Anchor Bible Dictionary. Vol. 4 (New 

York: Doubleday, 1992), pp. 486-471. 

Landsberger, B., and H. Todmor, “Fragments of Clay Liver Models from Hazor,” IEJ 14 

(1964), pp. 201-217. 

Lindblom, Johs, “Lot-Casting in the Old Testament,” VT 12 (1962), pp. 164-78. 

Lods, A., “Le role des magiques dans la mentalité israélite,” in Old Testament Essays: 

Papers Read Before the Society for Old Testament Study (London: Charles Griffin 

and Co., 1927), pp. 55-76. 

Lods, Adolphe, “Magie hébraïque et magie cananéenne,” Revue d’Histoire et de 

Philosophie Religieuses 7 (1927), pp. 12-25. 

Long, B. O., “The Effect of Divination upon Israelite Literature,” JBL 92 (1973), pp. 

489-497. 

Loretz, Oswald, “Nekromantie und Totenevokation in Mesopotamien, Ugarit und Israel,” 

in Bernd Janowski, Klaus Koch, and Gernot Wilhelm, eds., 

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Religionsgeschichtliche Beziehungen zwischen Kleinasien, Nordsyrien, und dem 

Alten Testament: Internationales Symposion Hamburg 17.-21. März 1990 (Orbis 

Biblicus et Orientalis, 129; Frieburg Schweiz, Universitätsverlag, 1993), pp. 285- 

318. 

Lust, J., “On Wizards and Prophets,” in D. Lys, et al., eds., Studies on Prophecy 

(VTSup, 26; Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1974), pp. 133-142. 

Mantovani, Piera Arata, “La magia nei testi preesilici dell’ Antico Testamento,” Henoch 

3 (1981), pp. 1-21. 

Mendelsohn, I., “Divination,” G. A. Buttrick, ed., Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible. 

Vols. K-Q (New York: Abingdon Press, 1962), pp. 223-225. 

Muthengi, Julius, “The Art of Divination,” Africa Journal of Evangelical Theology 12 

(1994), pp. 90-104. 

Neufeld, Ernest, “Residual Magic in the Bible,” Dor le Dor 17 (1989), pp. 255-259. 

Nigosion, Solomon A., “Anti-Divinatory Statements in Biblical Codes,” Theological 

Review 18 (1997), pp. 21-34. 

Patai, Raphael, “Control of the Rain in Ancient Palestine,” HUCA 14 (1939), pp. 254- 

258. 

Porter, J. R., “Ancient Israel,” in M. Loewe and Carmen Balcker, eds., Divination and 

Oracles (Boulder: Shanbhala, 1981), pp. 191-214. 

Ricks, Stephen, “The Magician as Outsider: The Evidence of the Hebrew Bible and the 

New Testament,” in Marvin Meyer and Paul Mirecki, eds., Ancient Magic and 

Ritual Power (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995), pp. 131-143. 

Ricks, Stephen, “The Magician as Outsider: The Evidence of the Hebrew Bible,” in 

P. V. M. Flesher, ed., New Perspectives in Ancient Judaism. Vol. 5 (Lanham: 

University Press of America, 1990), pp. 125-134. 

Rist, M., “The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: A Liturgical and Magical Formula,” 

JBL 57 (1938), pp. 289-303. 

Rogernson, John W., “The World-view of the Old Testament,” in J. Rogerson, ed., 

Beginning Old Testament Study (St. Louis: Chalice Press, 1998), pp. 55-73. 

Rooy, J. A. van, “Witches and Wizards in the Light of Scripture,” Missionalia 1 (1973), 

pp. 136-138. 

Segal, J. B., “Popular Religion in Ancient Israel,” JJS 27 (1976), pp. 1-22. 

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Shmidtke. F., “Traume, Orakel, und Totengeister als Kunder der Zukunft in Israel und 

Babylonia,” BZ 11 (1967), pp. 240-246. 

Swartz, Michael, “Temple Ritual in Jewish Magical Literature,” Pe‘amim 85 (2000), pp. 

43-61. 

Sweek, Joel, “Inquiring for the State in the Ancient Near East: Delineating Political 

Location,” in Leda Ciraolo and Jonathan Seidel, eds., Magic and Divination in the 

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41-56. 

Tarragon, Jean Michel de, “Witchcraft, Magic, and Divination in Canaan and Ancient 

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(New York: Charles Scriber’s Sons, 1995), pp. 2071-2081. 

Thiselton, A. C., “The Supposed Power of Words in the Biblical Writing,” JTS 25 (1974), 

pp. 294-299. 

Thistleton, Anthony C., “The Supposed Power of Words in the Biblical Writings,” JTS 

25 (1974), pp. 283-299. 

Torczyner, H., “A Hebrew Incantation Against Night Demons from Biblical Times,” 

JNES 6 (1947), pp. 18-29. 

Vattioni, F., “La necromanzia nell’AT,” Augustinianum 3 (1963), pp. 461-481 

Ward, E. F. de, “Superstition and Judgement: Archaic Methods of Finding a Verdict,” 

ZAW 89 (1977), pp. 1-19. 

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Journal 2 (1967), pp. 53-56. 

Xella, P., “Il ‘culto del morti’ nell’Antico Testamento,” Religioni e civilita: Festschrift A. 

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Yamauchi, Edwin, “Magic in the Biblical World,” Tyndale Bulletin 35 (1983), pp. 169- 

200. 

Zuck, R. B., “The Practices of Witchcraft in the Scriptures,” Bibliotheca Sacra 128 

(1971), pp. 352-360. 

Torah 

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Moore, M. S., The Balaam Traditions: Their Character and Development (Atlanta, GA.: 

Scholars Press, 1990). 


Albright, W. F., “The Oracles of Balaam,” JBL 68 (1944), pp. 207-233. 

Armerding, Carl, “The Breastplate of Judgement,” Bibliotheca Sacra 118 (1961), pp. 54- 

58. 

Baskin, Judith R., “Origen on Balaam: the Dilemma of the Unworthy Prophet [Num. 

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22-35. 

Cunen, F., “Les Pratiques Divinatoires attribuees a Joseph d”egypte,” Revue des Sciences 

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Gager, John G., “Moses the Magician: Hero of an Ancient Counter-Culture?” Helios 21 

(1994), pp. 134-161. 

Geller, Markham J., “The Surpu Incantations and Lev 5:1-5,” JSS 25 (1980), pp. 181- 

192. 

Hurrowitz, Victor Avigdor, “The Expression ‘uqsamim beyadam’ (Nu. 22:7) in Light of 

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46 [Heb.]. 

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Ex. 17:5-7 (Massah)],” in H. Huffmon and F. Spina, eds., The Quest for the 

Kingdom of God (Winona Lake, IN.: Eisenbrauns, 1983), pp. 251-265. 

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Morgenstern, J., “Trial by Ordeal Among the Semites,” in David Philipson, ed., Hebrew 

Union College Jubilee Volume, 1875-1925 (Cincinnati, OH.: Hebrew Union 

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Muller, Hans-Peter, “Erkenntnis und Verfehlun Prototypen und Antitypen zu Gen 2-3 in 

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theologische Erbe der Aufklärung (Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus G. Mohn, 

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pp. 45-59. 

Press, R., “Das Ordeal im Alten Israel,” ZAW 51 (1937), pp. 121-140, 227-255. 

Reindl, Joseph, “Der finger gottes und die macht der gotter: ein problem des agyptischen 

diaspora Judentums und sein literarischer Niedershlag,” in W. Ernst, ed., Dienst 

der Vermittlung:Festschrift zum 25-jährigen Bestehen d. Philosoph.-Theol. 

Studiums im Priesterseminar Erfurt (Leipzig: St. Benno-Verlag, 1977), pp. 49-60. 

Sabar, Shalom, “Torah and Magic: the Torah Scroll and its Accessories in Jewish Culture 

in Europe and in Muslim Countries,” Pe‘amim 85 (200), pp. 149-179. 

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Light of Biblical and Mesopotamian Parallels,” in Chaim Cohen, Avi Hurvitz, and 

Shalom M. Paul, eds., Sepher Moshe: The Moshe Weinfeld Jubilee Volume 

(Winona Lake, IN.: Eisenbrauns, 2004), pp. 171-190. 

Van Seters, John, “A Contest of Magicians? The Plague Stories in P,” in David P. 

Wright, David Noel Freedman, and Avi Hurvirtz, eds., Pomegranates and Golden 

Bells: Studies in Biblical, Jewish, and Near Eastern Ritual, Law, and Literature in 

Honor of Jacob Milgrom (Winona Lake, IN.: Eisenbrauns, 1995), pp. 339-349. 

Wagenaar, Jan A., “‘A Woman who Practices Sorcery, Shall not Sustain her Soul’: A 

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Altorientalische und Biblische Rechtsgeschichte 6 (2000), pp. 186-189. 

Nebi’im 

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Matheny, M. P., The Relationship of Ancient Near Eastern Sympathetic Magic to the 

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Theological Seminary, 1965). 

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Ades, J., “Samuel, Whear ‘Ast Tha Been Sin’ I Saw Thee,” in V. Tollers and J. Maier, 

eds., Mappings of the Biblical Terrain: The Bible as a Text (Lewisburg, PA.: 

Bucknell University Press, 1990), pp. 260-267. 

Abrahams, Israel, “The Witch of Endor,” The Expositor 2 (1882), pp. 111-120. 

Bakon, Shimon, “Saul and the Witch of Endor,” Dor le Dor 5 (1976a), pp. 16-23. 

Barrick, W. Boyd, “Elisha and the Magic Bow: a Note on 2 Kings 13:15-17,” VT 35 

(1985), pp. 355-363. 

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3-11. 

Bic, Milos, “Der Prophet Amos-Ein Haepatoskopos,” VT 1 (1951), pp. 293-296. 

Bledstei, Adrien Janis, “Was Habbirya a Healing Ritual Performed by a Woman in King 

David’s House,” Biblical Research 37 (1992), pp. 15-31. 

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373. 

Cogan, Mordechai, “The Road to Endor,” in David P. Wright, David Noel Freedman, and 

Avi Hurvirtz, eds., Pomegranates and Golden Bells: Studies in Biblical, Jewish, 

and Near Eastern Ritual, Law, and Literature in Honor of Jacob Milgrom 

(Winona Lake, IN.: Eisenbrauns, 1995), pp. 319-326. 

Durand, Jean-M., “In Vino Veritas: ARM 104; Drinking Wine as Divination Technique 

at Mari; Parallels with Isaiah 28:7, Micah 2:11,” RA 76 (1982), pp. 43-50. 

Gorg, Manfred, “‘Damonen’ statt in ‘Eulen’ in Jes 13:21,” Biblische Notizen 62 (1992), 

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Cogan and I. Ephal, eds., Ah, Assyria: Studies in Assyrian History and Ancient 

Near Eastern Historiography Presented to Hayim Tadmor (Jerusalem: Magnes 

Press, Hebrew University, 1991), pp. 267-271. 

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Key, Andrew, “The Magical Background of Isaiah 6:9-13,” JBL 86 (1967), pp. 198-204. 

Lieber, E., “‘He Looked in the Liver’ (Ez. 21:26) The Medical Origins of Liver 

Divination,” Korot 9 (1988), pp. 235-245. 

Margalith, Othniel, “Dor and En-Dor [reply to J.P. Brown 91:339 1981],” ZAW 97 

(1985), pp. 109-111. 

McCown, C. C., “The Christian Tradition as to the Magical Wisdom of Solomon,” JPOS 

2 (1922), pp. 1-24. 

Mertonem, A., “The Prophet Amos-A Hepatoscoper,” VT 2 (1952), pp. 170-171. 

Munk, Area, “Magic og leller ideologic som Ledebrad til Forstaelsen af Jeremias 27-28?” 

Dansk Teologisk Tidsskrift 56 (1993), pp. 96-109. 

Nehemia, Tsori, “New Light on Endor,” PEQ 84 (1952), pp. 114-117. 

Niehr, Herbert, “Ein underkannter Text zur Nekromantie in Israel: Bemerkungen zum 

religionsgeschtlichen Hintergrund von 2 Sam 12, 16a,” UF 23 (1991), pp. 301- 

306. 

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112-116. 

Reis, Pamela Tamralin, “Eating the Blood: Saul and the Witch of Endor,” Journal for the 

Study of the Old Testament 73 (1997), pp. 3-23. 

Schmidt, Brian B., “The ‘Witch’ of En-Dor, 1 Samuel 28, and Ancient Near Eastern 

Necromancy,” in Marvin Meyer and Paul Mirecki, eds., Ancient Magic and 


Schorch, Stefan, “Between Science and Magic: The Function and Roots of Paronomasia 

in the Prophetic Books of the Hebrew Bible,” in Scott B. Noegel, ed., Puns and 

Pundits: Wordplay in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Literature 

(Bethesda, MD.: CDL Press, 2000), pp. 205-222. 

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pp. 1-12. 

Simon, Uriel, “A Balanced Story: the Stern Prophet and the Kind Witch,” Prooftexts 8 

(1988), pp. 159-171. 

Smelik, K. A. D., “The Witch of Endor: I Samuel 28 in Rabbinic and Christian Exegesis 

Till 800 A. D.,” Vigiliae Christianae 33 (1977), pp. 160-179. 

22

Sosevsky, Moshe, “On Defense of Sha’ul: The King and the Baalath Ov,” Jewish 

Thought 1 (1990), pp. 101-116. 

Thomasson, Jacques de, “Acte-Signes on Actes Magques? Ez 2-5 et Surpa,” Biblische 

Notizen 64 (1992), pp. 18-25. 

Torijano, Pablo A., “ La ‘Hygromanteia de Salomon’,” ‘Ilu 4 (1999), pp. 327-346. 

Trencseny-Waldapfel, I., “Die Hexe von Endor und die griechisch-romische Welt,” Acta 

Or 12 (1961), pp. 201-222. 

Vandertoorn, K., “Echoes of Judean Necromancy in Isaiah 28:7-22,” ZAW 100 (1988), 

pp. 199-217. 

Vattioni, F., “La Necromanzia nell’Antico Testamento—I Sam 28:3-25,” Aug 3 (1963), 

pp. 461-481. 

Wendland, Ernst R., “Elijah and Elisha: Sorcerers or Witch Doctors?” Bible Translator 

43 (1992), pp. 213-223. 

Ketubim 

Books 

Birkeland, Harris, The Evil-doers in the Book of Psalms (Oslo: I kommiajon hos. J. 

Dybwead, Norske Videnakaps-akademie, 1955). 

Nikol’skii, Nikolai M., Spuren Magischer Formeln in den Psalmen (Giessen: A. 

Töpelmann, 1927). 

Parsons, I. R. M., Evil Speaking in the Psalms of Lament (Ph.D. Dissertation: Drew 


Porter, P. A., Metaphors and Monsters: A Literary-Critical Study of Daniel 7 and 8 

(OT Series, 20; Uppsala: Coniectanen Biblica, 1983). 


Anderson, Wayne, “Os Vulvae in Proverbs and the Malleus Maleficarum,” History of 

European Ideas 14 (1992), pp. 715-722. 

Bar-Ilan, Meir, “Text Criticism Erotica and Magic in the Song of Songs,” Shnaton—an 

Annual for Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies 9 (1987), pp. 31-53 [Heb.]. 

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Davies, E. W., “The Meaning of Qesem in Psalms 16:10,” Bib 61 (1980), pp. 554-556. 

Davis, Eli, “The Psalms in Hebrew Medical Amulets,” VT 42 (1992), pp. 173-178. 

De Fraine, J., “Le ‘Demon du midi’ (Ps. 91),” Biblica 40 (1959), pp. 372-383. 

Fodor, Alexander, “The Use of Psalms in Jewish and Christian Arabic Magic,” in E. 

Apor, ed., Jubilee Volume of the Oriental Collection (Budapest: MTAK, 1978), 

pp. 67-71. 

Fontaine, Carole R., “‘Many Devices’ (Qoheleth 7.23-8.1); Qoheleth, Misogyny and the 

‘Malleus Maleficarum’,” in Athalya Brenner and Carol Fontaine, eds., Wisdom 

and Psalms: A Feminist Companion to the Bible (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic 

Press, 1988), pp. 137-168. 

Gammie, John G., “The Angeology and Demonology in the Septuagint of the Book of 

Job,” HUCA 56 (1985), pp. 1-19. 

Greloit, Pierre, “Lecriture sur le mur (Daniel 5) in A. Caquot, et al., eds., Melanges 

Bibliques et Orientaux en l’honneur de M. Mathias Delcor (Kevalaer: Butzon & 

Bercker, 1985), pp. 199-207. 

Kayser, C., “Gerbrauch von Psalmen zur Zauberei,” ZDMG 42 (1888), pp. 456-462. 

Millard, Alan R., “Daniel and Belshazzar in History,” BAR 11 (1985), pp. 73-78. 

Miller, Patrik D., Jr, “Apotropaic Imagery in Proverbs 6:20-22,” JNES 29 (1970), pp. 

129-130. 

Muller, Hand Peter, “Magisch-Mantische Wisheit und die Gestalt Daniels,” UF 1 (1969), 

pp. 79-94. 

Noegel, Scott B., “He of Two Horns and a Tail,” Ugarit Forschungen 38 (2007), pp. 537- 

542. 

Noegel, Scott B., “Job iii 5 in the Light of Mesopotamian Demons of Time,” Vetus 

Testamentum 57 (2007), pp. 556-562. 

Noonan, Brian B., “Wisdom Literature Among the Witchmongers,” in Athalya Brenner 

and Carol Fontaine, eds., Wisdom and Psalms: A Feminist Companion to the 

Bible (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1988), pp. 169-174. 

Oesterley, W. O. E., “The Demonology of the OT Illustrated by Ps. 91,” The Expositer 

16-18 (1907), pp. 132-151. 

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Simonson, D., “Ein Nachtrag zu der Abhandlung uder ‘Gberauch von Psalmen zur 

Zauberei’,” ZDMG 42 (1888), pp. 693-694. 

Smith, Mark S., “The Invocation of Decreased Ancestors in Psalms 49:12c,” JBL 112 

(1993), pp. 105-107. 

Technical Terms 


Ackroyd, Peter R., “The Teraphim,” ET 62 (1951), pp. 378-380. 

Bazak, J., “Hover-Haver,” Sinai 32 (1937-1938), pp. 167-171. 

Clines, D. J. A., “Ob,” Dictionary of Classical Hebrew I (Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1993), 

p. 148. 

Dan, Joseph, “Teraphim: From Popular Belief to a Folktale,” in J. Heinemann and S. 

Wereses, eds., Studies in Hebrew Narrative Art (Jerusalem: Magnes, 1978), pp. 

99-106. 

Dietrich, M., O. Loretz, and J. Sanmartin, “Ugaritisch ilib und hebraisch ‘(w)b 

‘Totengeist’,” UF 6 (1974), pp. 450-451. 

Dommerahaussen, W., “Goral,” in G. Johannes Botterweck and Helmer Ringgren, eds., 

Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament. Transl. J. Willis (Grand Rapids, 

MI.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1975), pp. 450-456. 

Ebach, Jurgen, and Udo Rutersworden, “Unterweltsbeschworung im Alten Testament: 

Untersuchunger zur Begriffs - und Religionsgechichte des ‘ob (teil 2),” UF 12 

(1990), pp. 205-220. 

Ellinger, K., “Ephod und Choschen,” VT 8 (1958), pp. 19-35. 

Finkelstein, J. J., “Hebrew ḥbr and Semitic ḥbr,” JBL 75 (1956), pp. 328-331. 

Gipson, Norman, “A Glossary of Difficult Old Testament Words (ariel, cherubim, seed, 

urim and thummim, bamah, nethanim, seraphim),” in Wendel Winkler, ed., 

Difficult Texts of the Old Testament (Hurst, TX.: Winkler Publications, 1982), pp. 

7-16. 

Haran, Menachem, “The Ephod According to Biblical Sources,” Tarbiz 24 (1954-55), 

pp. 380-391. 

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Hoffner, H. A., “Second Millenium Antecedents to the Hebrew òb,” JBL 86 (1967), pp. 

385-401. 

Hoffner, H. A., “‘obh,” in G. Johannes Botterweck and Helmer Ringgren, eds., 

Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. 

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Hoffner, H. A., “Hittite Tarpis and Hebrew Teraphim,” JNES 27 (1968), pp. 61-68. 

Hoffner, H. A., “Linguistic Origins of Teraphim,” BS 124 (1967), pp. 230-238. 

Labuschagne, C. J., “Teraphim: A New Proposal for its Etymology,” VT 16 (1966), pp. 

115-117. 

Lambdin, T. O.,”Egyptian Loan Words in the Old Testament,” JAOS 73 (1975), pp. 145- 

155. 

Levenson, Jon D., “A Technical Meaning for n`m in the Hebrew Bible,” VT 35 (1985), 

pp. 61-67. 

Lewis, T. J., “Teraphim,” in K. van der Toorn, et al., eds., Dictionary of Deities and 

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1601. 

Loretz, O., “Die Teraphim als Ahnen-Gotter-Figurinen im lichte det Texte aus Nuzi, 

Emar, und Ugarit,” UF 24 (1992), pp. 133-178. 

MacLaurin, E. C. B., “Joseph and Asaph,” VT 25 (1975), pp. 27-45. 

Poiselli, G. C., “Ilib, gb, ‘b tra Ugaritico, Fenicio, ed Ebraica,” RSO 56 (1982), pp. 21-26. 

Queagebur, J., “On the Egyptian Equivalent of Biblical Hartumim,” in S. I. Groll, ed., 

Pharaonic Egypt: the Bible and Christianity (Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1983), pp. 

162-172. 

Rouillard, H., and J Tropper, “TRPYM, rituels de guerison et culte des ancetres d’apres 1 

Samuel XIX 11-17 et les textes paralles d’Assur et de Nuzi,” VT 37 (1987), pp. 

340-361. 

Rouillard, H., and J. Tropper, “Vom kanaanaischen Ahnenkult zur Zauberel Eine 

Auslegungsgeschichte zu den hebraischen Begriffen ‘wb und yd`ny,” UF 19 

(1987), pp. 235-254. 

Schmidt, H., “‘wb,” in Karl Budde, ed., Vom Alten Testament; Karl Marti zum 

siebzigsten geburtsage gewidmet von freunden, Fachgenossen und schülern 

(BZAW, 41; Gieben: A. Töpelmann, 1925), pp. 253-261. 

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Sherlock, Charles, “The Meaning of ḥrm in the Old Testament,” Colloquium 14 (1982), 

pp. 13-24. 

Smith, W. Robertson, “On the Forms of Divination and Magic Enumerated in Deut. 

18:10-11,” Journal of Philology 13 (1885), pp. 273-288 and 14 (1885), pp. 113- 

128. 

Sperling, S. David, “ḤBR and Friends,” in M. Cohen, et al., eds., The Tablet and the 

Scroll (Bethesda, MD: CDL Press, 1993), pp. 225-229. 

Van der Toorn, K., “The Nature of the Biblical Teraphim in the Light of Cuneiform 

Evidence,” CBQ 52 (1990), pp. 203-222. 

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1898), pp. 157-160. 

Urim and Thummim 

Books 

Van Dam, Cornelis, The Urim and Thummim: A Means of Revelation in Ancient Israel 

(Winona Lake, IN.: Eisenbraums, 1997). 

Van Dam, Cornelis, The Urim and Thummim (Kampen: Uitgeverij van der Berg, 1986). 


Baumgarten, Joseph, “The Duodecimal Courts of Qumran, Revelation, and the 

Sanhedrin,” JBL 95 (1976), pp. 59-78. 

Dosker, H. E., “Urim and Thummim,” Presbyterian and Reformed Review 3 (1892), 

pp. 717-736. 

Hayward, Robert, “Pseudo-Philo and the Priestly Oracle,” JJS 46 (1995), pp. 43-54. 

Houtman, Cornelius, “The Urim and Thummim: A New Suggestion,” VT 40 (1990), pp. 

229-232. 

Hurowitz, Victor Avigdor, “True Light on Urim and Thummim,” JQR 88 (1998), pp. 

263-274. 

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Hurowitz, Victor Avigdor, and Wayne Hurowitz, “Urim and Thummim in Light of a 

Psephomancy Ritual from Assur (LKA 137),” JANES 21 (1992), pp. 95-115. 

Johnson, Bo, “Urim und Thummin ald Alphabet,” Annual of the Swedish Theological 

Institute 9 (1974), pp. 23-29. 

Kennedy, A. R. S., “Urim and Thummim, Ephod, Teraphim,” Assyriologische und 

Archaeologische Studien (Hilprecht Anniversary Volume; Leipzig: Hinrichs, 

1909), pp. 225ff. 

Kitz, Anne Marie, “The Plural Form of Urim and Thummim,” JBL 116 (1997), pp. 401- 

410. 

Lipinski, E., “Urim and Thummim,” VT 20 (1970), pp. 495-496. 

Maier, J., “Urim und Tummim,” Kairos 11 (1969), pp. 22-38. 

Maier, Johan, “Urim und Thummim: Recht und Bund in der Spannung zwischen 

konigstum und Priestertum in Alten Israel,” Kairos 11 (1969), pp. 27-38. 

Mangan, Edward A., “The Urim and Thummim,” CBQ 1 (1939), pp. 133-138. 

Muss-Arnolt, W., “The Urim and Thummim: a Suggestion as to Their Original Nature 

and Significance,” American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures 16 

(1899-1900), pp. 193-224. 

Nickel, Roland, “Urim und Thummim: Theologische Anmerkungen,” in H. Heinz, ed., 

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1995), pp. 29-36. 

Roberston, Edward, “‘Urim and Thummim: What Were They?” VT 14 (1964), pp. 67-74. 

Westermann, C., “Die Begriffe für Fragen und Suchen im Alten Testament,” Kerygma 

und Dogma 6 (1960), pp. 10-13. 

Magic in the Greco-Roman Period 

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Gager, John G., Curse Tablets and Binding Spells from Antiquity and the Ancient World 

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1997). 

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Jacoby, Felix, Die Fragmente der Griechischer Historiker (Berlin: Weidmann, 1923). 

Luck, George, Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds: a 

Collection of Ancient Texts (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985). 

General Jewish 

Books 

Blau, Ludwig, Das Altjuedische Zauberwesen (Budapest: Jahresbericht der Landes 

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Bohak, Gideon, Ancient Jewish Magic (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008). 

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Eshel, Esther, ha-Emunah be-Shedi, be-Erets-Yisra’el bi-yeme ha-Bayit ha-Sheni 

[Demonology in Palestine during the Second Temple Period] (Ph.D. Dissertation: 

Hebrew University, 1999) [Heb.]. 

Goodenough, Erwin R., Jewish Symbols in the Greco-Roman Period. Vols. 1-13 

(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1953-68). 

Henderson, Zoe Anne, Much More than Hocus Pocus: Magic in Hellenistic Judaism 

(Ph.D. Dissertation: Columbia Theological Seminary, 1995). 

Mastrocinque, Attilio, From Jewish Magic to Gnosticism (Studien und Texte zu Antike 

und Christentum, 24; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2005). 

Meyer, M., and P. Mirecki, eds., Ancient Magic and Ritual Power (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 

1995). 

Mills, Mary E., Human Agents of Cosmic Power in Hellenistic Judaism and the Synoptic 

Tradition (Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1990). 

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Thesis: Tel Aviv University, 2003) [Heb.]. 

Wise, Michael O., Thunder in Gemini and Other Essays on the History, Language, and 

Literature of Second Temple Palestine (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 

1994). 

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Alexander, Philip S., “Incantations and Books of Magic,” in Emil Schurer, The History of 

the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ (175 B.C.-A.D. 135), English version 

revised and edited by G. Vermes, F. Millar, and M. Goodman, Vol. 3, Part 1 

(Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1986), pp. 341-379. 

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Horbury, W. D. Davies, and John Sturdy, eds., The Cambridge History of 

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Alon, G., “By the (Expressed Name),” in Jews, Judaism and the Classical World: Studies 

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712. 

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General 

Books 

Aubin, Melissa, Gendering Magic in Late Antique Judaism (Ph.D. Dissertation: Duke 


Gaster, Moses, Three Works of Ancient Jewish Magic (London: Chthonios, 1986). 

Naveh, Joseph, and Shaul Shaked, Amulets and Magic Bowls: Aramaic Incanationas of 

Late Antiquity (Jerusalem: Magnes, 1985). 

Saar, O., Superstitions in Israel during the Roman and Early-Byzantine Periods, (M.A. 

Thesis: Tel Aviv University, 2003) [Heb.]. 


Baron, Salo, “Magic and Ritual,” in Salo Baron, A Social and Religious History of the 

Jews: Vol. 2, The Christian Era, the First Five Centuries (New York: Columbia 


Benin, S., “Megillat Ahima’az u-Mekomah ba-Sifrut ha-Bizantit,” Mekherei 

Yerishalayim be-Mahshevel Yisrael 4 (1985), pp. 237-250. 

Eisenstein, J. D., “Alpha Beta Ben Sira,” in Judah David Eisenstein, ed., Otsar 

Midrashim. Vol. 1 (New York: J. D. Eisenstein, 1915), pp. 35-50. 

Finney, Paul Corby, “Abraham and Isaac Iconography on Late-Antique Amulets and 

Seals: The Western Evidence,” JAC 38 (1995), pp. 140-166. 

Fulghum, Mary Margaret, “Coins Used as Amulets in Late Antiquity,” in Sulochana R. 

Asirvatham, Corinne Ondine Pache, and John Watrous, eds., Between Magic and 

Religion: Interdisciplinary Studies in Anceint Mediterranean Religion and Society 

(Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001), pp. 139-147. 

Garcia Martinez, Florentino, “Magic in the Dead Sea Scrolls,” in Jan N. Bremmer and 

Jan R. Veensra, eds., The Metmorphosis of Magic from Late Antiquity to the Early 

Modern Period (Leuven: Peeters, 2002), pp. 13-33. 

Hamilton, Gordon J., “A New Hebrew-Aramaic Incantation Text from the Galilee: 

‘Rebuking the Sea’,” JSS 41 (1996), pp. 215-249. 

Harari, Yuval, “How to Do Things with Words: Philosophical Theory and Magical 

Deeds,” Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Folklore 19-20 (1998), pp. 365-392 [Heb.]. 

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Harari, Yuval, “If You Wish to Kill a Person: Harmful Witchcraft and Protection from it 

in Early Jewish Magic,” Jewish Studies 37 (1997), pp. 111-142 [Heb.]. 

Harari, Yuval, “Love Charms in Early Jewish Magic,” Kabbalah 5 (2000), pp. 347-364 

[Heb.]. 

Harari, Yuval, “Religion, Magic and Adjurations: Methodological Reflections Aimed at a 

New Definition of Early Jewish Magic,” Daat 48 (2002), pp. 31-56 [Heb.]. 

Harari, Yuval, “Power and Money: Economic Aspects of the Use of Magic by Jews in 

Ancient Times and the Early Middle Ages,” Peamim 85 (2000), pp. 14-42 [Heb.]. 

Hildesheimer, E. E., “Mystik und Agada im Urteile der Gaonen R. Scherira und R. Hai,” 

in Festchrift für Jacob Rosenheim (Frankfurt am Main: J. Kauffmann, 1931), pp. 

259-286. 

Lacerenza, Giancarlo, “Jewish Magicians and Christian Clients in Late Antiquity: The 

Testamony of Amulets and Inscriptions,” in Leonard V. Rutgers, ed., What Athens 

Has to Do with Jerusalem: Essays on Classical, Jewish and Christian Art and 

Archaeology in Honor of Gideon Foerster (Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient 

Culture and Religion, 1; Leuven: Peeters, 2002), pp. 393-419. 

Levene, Dan, “Calvariae Magicae: The Berlin, Philadelphia, and Moussaieff Skulls,” 

Orientalia 75 (2006), pp. 359-379, tables xxxvii-xlix. 

Levene, Dan, “Silver Foil Magic Amulet and Two Lead Foil Magic Amulets,” in J. G. 

Westenholz, ed., Three Faces of Monotheism (Jerusalem: Bible Lands Museum, 

2007), pp. 63-65. 

Levene, Dan, “Jüdisch-aramäische Zauberschalen aus Mesopotamien,” in Joachim 

Marzahn and Günther Schauerte, eds., Babylon. Wahrheit, Eine Ausstellung des 

Vorderasiatischen Museums, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, mit Unterstützung der 

Staatsbibliothek Berlin (Ausstellungskatalog) (München: Hirmer, 2008), pp. 549- 

552. 

Levene, Dan, and Siam Bhayro, “‘Bring to the Gates... Upon a Good Smell and Upon 

Good Fragrances’”: An Aramaic Incantation Bowl for Success in Business,” in 

Archiv für Orientforschung 51 (2005/2006), pp. 242-246. 

Naveh, Joseph, “On Ancient Jewish Magical Books,” in A. Oppenheimer, I. Gafni, and 

D. Schwatz, eds., The Jews in the Hellenistic and Roman World (Jerusalem: 

Merkaz Zalman Shazar le-toldot Yisra’el; ha-Hevrah ha-historit ha-Yisre’elit, 

1996), pp. 453-456 [Heb.]. 

Schafer, Peter, “Jewish Magic Literature in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages,” JJS 

41 (1990), pp. 75-91. 

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Schafer, Peter, “Magic and Religion in Ancient Judaism,” in Peter Schafer, and H. G. 

Kippenberg, eds., Envisioning Magic: A Princeton Seminar and Symposium 


Scholem, Gershom, “Havdalah de-Rabbi Akivah: Maqor le-maroet ha-magiah ha-yehudit 

bi-tkufat he-geonim,” Tarbiz 50 (1980-1981), pp. 243-281 [Heb.]. 

Struck, Peter T., “The Poet as Conjurer: Magic and Literary Theory in Late Antiquity,” in 

Leda Ciraolo and Jonathan Seidel, eds., Magic and Divination in the Ancient 

World (Ancient Magic and Divination, 2; Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2002), pp. 119-131. 

Swartz, Michael, “Magical Piety in Ancient and Medieval Judaism,” in Marvin Meyer 

and Paul Mirecki, eds., Ancient Magic and Ritual Power (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 

1995), pp. 167-183. 

Tobias Lachs, Samuel, “The Alphabet of Ben Sira,” Gratz College Annual of Jewish 

Studies 11 (1973), pp. 9-28. 

Magic and Merkaba Literature 

Books 

Arbel, V. D., Beholders of Divine Secrets: Mysticism and Myth in the Hekhalot and 

Merkavah Literature (Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 2003). 

Bar-Ilan, Meir, The Mysteries of Jewish Prayer and Hekhalot (Ramat Gan: Bar-Ilan 


Cohen, M. S., The Shi’ur Qomah: Liturgy and Theurgy in Pre-Kabbalistic Jewish 

Mysticism (New York: University Press of America, 1983). 

Davila, James R., Descenders to the Chariot: The People Behind the Hekhalot Literature 

(Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2001). 

Elior, Rachel, The Three Temples: On the Emergence of Jewish Mysticism (Oxford: 

Littman, 2004). 

Elior, Rachel, Hekhalot Literature and the Merkabah Tradition (Tel Aviv: Yediot 

Acharonot, 2004). 

Lesses, Rebecca, Ritual Practices to Gain Powers: Angels, Incantations, and Revelation 

in Early Jewish Mysticism (Harrisburg, PN.: Trinity Press International, 1998). 

Schafer, P., Geniza-Fragmente zur Hekhalot-Literature (Tübingen: Mohr, 1984). 

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Swartz, Michael, Scholastic Magic: Ritual and Revelation in Early Jewish Mysticism 

(Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1996). 


Alexander, Philip S., “Response,” [to Peter Schafer] in Peter Schafer and Joseph Dan, 

eds., Gershom Scholem’s Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism 50 Years After 

(Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 1993), pp. 79-83. 

Bar-Ilan, Meir, “The Names of Angels,” in J. A. Reif, and J. Tabory, eds., These Are the 

Names: Studies in Jewish Onomastics (Ramat Gan, Israel: Bar-Ilan University 

Press, 1997), pp. 33-48. 

Bohak, Gideon, “Remains of Greek Words and Magical Formulae in Hekhalot 

Literature,” Kabbalah 6 (2001), pp. 121-134. 

Dan, Joseph, “The Revelation of the Secret of the World: The Beginning of Jewish 

Mysticism in Late Antiquity,” Brown University Program in Judaic Studies 

(Occasional Papers, 2, Providence, Rhode Island, 1992). 

Dan, Joseph, “The Ancient Heikhalot Mystical Texts in the Middle Ages: Tradition, 

Source, Inspiration,” BJRL 75, pp. 83-96. 

Dan, Joseph,“The Mystical ‘Descenders to the Chariot’ in Historical Context,” Zion 60 

(1995), pp. 179-199. 

Elior, Rachel, “Mysticism, Magic, and Angeology: the Perception of Angels in Hekhalot 

Literature,” JSQ 1 (1993-1994), pp. 5-53. 

Hermann, Klaus, “Magische traditionen der New Yorker hekhalot-handschrift JTS 8128 

im Kontext ihrer Gesamtredaktion,” Frankfurter Judaistische Beitrage 17 (1989), 

pp. 101-149. 

Hermann, Klaus, “Magische traditionen der oxforder hekhalot-handschrift michael 9 in 

ihrem verhaltnis zu Ms. New York JTS 8128,” Frankfurter Judaistische Beitrage 

19 (1991-1992), pp. 169-183. 

Lesses, Rebecca, “The Adjuration of the Prince of the Presence: Performative Utterance 

in a Jewish Ritual,” in Marvin Meyer and Paul Mirecki, eds., Ancient Magic and 


Maier, Johann, “Magisch-theurgische uberlieferungen im mittelalterlichen: 

beobachtungen zu ‘terafim’ und ‘golem’” in Helmut Birkhan, ed., Die Juden in 

ihrer mitterlalterlichen umwiet (Bern: Peter Lang, 1992), pp. 249-287. 

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Schafer, Peter, “Merkavah Mysticism and Magic,” in Peter Schafer and Joseph Dan, eds., 

Gershom Scholem’s Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism 50 Years After 

(Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 1993), pp. 59-78. 

Schafer, Peter, “Ein neues Fragment zur Metoposkopie und Chiromantik,” Frankfurter 

Judaistische Reitrage 13 (1985), pp. 61-82 [= P. Schafer, ed., Hekhalot-Studien 

(Tübingen, 1988), pp. 84-95]. 

Scholem, Gershom, “Esoteric Knowledge: The Heikhalot, the Maàseh Bereshit, and the 

Literature of Magic,” in G. Scholem, Kabbalah (New York: Meridian, 1978), pp. 

14-20. 

Shaked, Shaul, “‘Innen’ und ‘Aussen’ in der religiongeschichte: Einige typologische 

beobachtungen,” in J. Assmann, ed., Die Enfindung des inneren Menschen 

(Gürersloh : Güthersloher Verlagshaus G. Mohn, c1993), pp. 15-27. 

Swartz, Michael, “Book and Tradition in Hekhalot and Magical Literatures,” JJTP 3 

(1994), pp. 189-224. 

Swartz, Michael, “‘Like the Ministering Angels’ Ritual and Purity in Early Jewish 

Mysticism and Magic,” AJS Review 19 (1994), pp. 135-167. 

Sefer Yesira 

Books 

Goldschmidt, Lazarus, Sefer Yetsirah (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 

1969). 

Kalisch, Isador, Transl. and ed., The Sepher Yezirah: the Book of Formation (Gillette, 

N.J.: Heptangle Books, 1987). 

Kaplan, Aryeh, Transl. and ed., Sefer Yetzirah: the Book of Creation (Northvale, N.J.: J. 

Aaronson, 1995). 

Kaplan, Aryeh, The Book of Creation (York Beach, ME.: S. Weiser, 1997). 

Kordo’ero, Mosheh Sefer Yetsirah: ha-Meyuhas le-Avraham Avinu: im perush Or Yakar 

(Jerusalem: Hevrat Ahuzat Yisrael, 1988/1989). 

Lambert, Mayer, Transl. and ed., Commentarie sur le Sefer Yesira de la creation, par le 

gaon Saadya de Fayyoum (Paris: E. Bouillon, 1891). 

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Mendel ben ha-Rav Barukh be`ndet me-Shaklav, Menaham, Sefer Yetsirah: ìm 

hamishah perushim [Rabad, Ramban, Saadya Gaon, Eliezer me-Garmaziya, 

Moshe Botarel, Gaon Eliyahu me-Vilna] (Grodno, 1806). 

Moucka, Ladislav, Sefer Jecira (Praha: Pudorys, 1993) [Czech and Heb.]. 

Papus, Gerard Encausse, The Qabalah: secret tradition of the West [complete translation 

of the Sepher Yetzirah] (Wellingborough: Thorsons, 1977). 

Pincherle, Mario, Fonti Archeologiche della magia: il Sfr Isire, primo libro dell’umanita 

(Ancona: Filelfo, 1977). 

Sefer Yetsirah (New York: L. H. Frank & Co., 1877) [Heb. and Eng.]. 

Sefer Yetsirah: ha-Meyuhas la-Avraham Avinu: ve-alav kol shilte ha-Giborim ha 

Mefarshim ha-Mekubalim… Sefer Yetsirah: mesudar bi-Shelemut ‘al pi nusah ha 

Ari Ashkenazi, zal: im perush ha-Gera. Yatsa le-or me-hadash (Brooklyn, N.Y.: 

1987/1988). 

Sefer Yetsirah: ha-Meyuhas le-Avraham Avinu: ve-’alav kol shilte ha-Giborim ha 

Mefarshim ha-Mekubalim (Jerusalem: Yeshivat Kol Yehudah, 1989). 

Sterning, Khut, Transl. and ed., The Book of Formation (Sepher Yetzirah) by Akiba ben 

Yoseph (New York: Ktav, 1970). 

Toaff, Gadiel, ed., Sefer Yezirah: il libro della creazione (Roma: Carucci, 1979). 

Vainshtok, Ben-Tsiyon Mosheh Ya’ir, ed., Sefer Yetsirah ha-Shalem (Jerusalem: ha 

Makhon le-hotsa’at kitve yad ve-sifre Maran ha-Mehaber ha-Gaon ha-mekubal 

ha-tsadik Rabi Mosheh Ya’ir Vainshtok; New York: Li-fenot-nekhed ha 

mekhaber Sh. A. Vainshtok, 1982/3). 

Vaynshtok, Bentsiyon Mosheh Yaìr, ed., Sefer Yetsirah ha-Shalem (Jerusalem: Defus S. 

Vaynfeld, 1965). 

Wasserstrom, Steven M., “Further Thoughts on the Origins of Sepher Yezirah,” Aleph 2 

(2002), pp. 201-221. 

Weinstock, I., “Towards Clarifying the Text of Sepher Yezira,” Temirin 1 (1972), pp. 9- 

61. 

Westcott, W. Wynn, The Book of Creation: with a Bibliography of Modern Translations 

(Cambridge, England: I. A. M., 1978). 

Westcott, W. Wynn, The Book of Formation and the Thirty Two Paths of Wisdom 

(London: Theosophical Pub. Society/New York: The Path, 1893). 

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Ben-Shamai, Haggai, “Saadya’s Goal in his ‘Commentary on Sefer Yezira’,” in Ruth 

Link Salinger, ed., A Straight Path: Studies in Medieval Philosophy and Culture 

(Washington, D. C.: Catholic University Press, 1988), pp. 1-9. 

Chaze, Micheline, “De l’identification des Patriarches au char divin: recherches du sens 

d’un enseignement rabbinique dans le Midrash et dans la Kabbale prezoharique et 

ses sources,” REJ 149 (1990), pp. 5-75. 

Dan, Joseph, “The Language of Creation and its Grammar,” in Dan, Joseph, ed., Jewish 

Mysticism I (Northvale, N.J.: J. Aaronson, 1998), pp. 129-154. 

Dan, Joseph, “Three Phases of the History of Sefer Yesira,” in Frankfurter Judaistische 

Beitrage 21 (1994), pp. 7-29 [= Joseph Dan, ed., Jewish Mysticism (Northvale, 

N.J.: J. Aaronson, 1998-1999), pp. 155-187]. 

Diamond, Jeffrey, “Sefer Yetsirah--el Libro de la Creacion,” El Oliva 39 (1994), pp. 21- 

27. 

Finkel, Asher, “The Exegetic Elements of the Cosmosophical Work, Sefer Yesirah,” in 

R. A. Herrera, ed., Mystics of the Book: Themes, Topics, and Typologies (New 

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Fleischer, Ezra, “On the Antiquity of Sepher Yezira: The Qilirian Testimony Revisited,” 

Tarbiz 71 (2002), pp. 405-432. 

Gruenwald, I., “A Prelimimary Critical Edition of Sefer Yesira,” IOS 1 (1971), pp. 132- 

177. 

Gruenwald, I., “Some Critical Notes on the First Part of Sefer Yesira,” REJ 132 (1973), 

pp. 474-512. 

Hayman, A. Peter, “Qohelet and the Book of Creation,” JSOT 50 (1991), pp. 95-111. 

Hayman, A. Peter, “Some Observations on Sefer Yesira: 1. Its Uses of Scripture,” JJS 35 

(1984), pp. 168-184. 

Hayman, A. Peter, “Some Observations on Sefer Yesira: 2. The Temple at the Centre of 

the Universe,” JJS 37 (1986), pp. 175-182. 

Hayman, A. Peter, “The Doctrine of Creation in Sefer Yesira: Some Text-Critical 

Problems,” in Sed-Rajna, Gabrielle, ed., Rashi, 1040-1990: Hommage a Ephraim 

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E. Urbach. Congres Europeen des Etudes Juives [IV, 1990] (Paris: Cerf, 1993), 

pp. 219-227. 

Hayman, A. Peter, “The ‘Original Text’: a Scholarly Illusion,” in Jon Davies, Graham 

Harvey, and Wilfred G.E. Watson, eds., World Remembered Texts: Essays in 

Honour of John F.A. Sawyer (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995), pp. 

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Hayman, A. Peter, “Sefer Yesira and the Hekhalot Literature,” Proceedings of the First 

International Conference on the History of Jewish Mysticism (Jerusalem: Hebrew 

University of Jerusalem, 1987), pp. 71-85. 

Hayman, A. Peter, “Was God a Magician? Sefer Yesira and Jewish Magic,” JJS 40 

(1989), pp. 225-237. 

Hermann, Klaus, “‘Feuer aus Wasser’: sum Fortleben eines enbekannten Sefer Yesira 

Kommentars in der hekhalot-Literatur,” Frankfurter Judaistische Beitrage 20 

(1993), 49-95. 

Herrera, R .A., ed., Mystics of the Book: Themes, Topics, and Typologies (New York: 

Peter Lang, 1993), pp. 45-55. 

Jospe, Raphael, “Early Philosophical Commentaries on the ‘Sefer Yezirah’: Some 

Comments,” REJ 149 (1990), pp. 369-415. 

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117. 

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Aramaic Magic,” Acta Iranica 25 (1985), pp. 511-525 [= Jacques Duchesne- 

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51-62. 

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(1934), pp. 157-169. 

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Gaster, Moses, Maàseh Book: Book of Jewish Tales and Legends Translated from the 

Judeo-German (Philadelphia, PA.: JPS, 1934). 

Grozinger, Karl E., and Joseph Dan, eds., Mysticism, Magic, and Kabbalah: 

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1995). 

Hsai, R. Po-chia, The Myth of Ritual Murder: Jews and Magic in Reformation Germany 

(New Haven, CT.: Yale University Press, 1988). 

Idel, Moshe, Golem: Jewish Magical and Mystical Tradition on the Artificial Anthropoid 

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Idel, Moshe, Hasidism: Between Ecstacy and Magic (Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press, 1995). 

Karnarfogel, Ephraim, Peering Through the Lattice: Mystical, Magical, and Pietistic 

Judaism in the Tosafist Period (Detroit, MI.: Wayne State University Press, 

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Kohen, Zamir, be-Ìkvot ha-dibuk (Jerusalem, Israel: Mekhon ‘Or ve-àrakhim’, 1999). 

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Nigal, Gedalyah, Ba’al shem le-ma’aser òlam: goralo ha-tragi shel ha-Rav Hirsch 

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Nigal, Gedalyah, Magia, mistikah, va-hasidut (Tel Aviv, Israel: Y. Golan, 1992). 

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Rebinger, Bill, Der Magische Gebrauch der Psalmen in Judentum: Sefer Shimmush 

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Wandrey, Irina, “Das Buch des Gewandes” und “Das Buch des Aufrechen.” Dokumente 

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Ansani, Antonella, “Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola’s Language of Magic,” in L’Hebrew 

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Hsia, Ronnie Po-Chia, “Witchcraft, Magic, and the Jews in Late Medieval and Early 

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Hsis, Ronnie Po-Chia, “Jews as Magicians in Reformation Germany,” in Sander L. 

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Idel, Moshe, “The Magical and Theurgical Interpretation of Music in Jewish Texts: 

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Idel, Moshe, “The Study Program of Yohanan Alemanno,” Tarbiz 48 (1979), pp. 303- 

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Neusner, Ernest S. Frerichs, and Paul Virgil McCracken Flescher, eds., Religion, 

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Kieckhefer, Richard, “The Devil’s Comptemplations; the Liber Iuratus, the Liber 

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(University Park, PA.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1988), pp. 250-265. 

Kilcher, Andreas B., “Das Magische Gesetz der Hebraischen Sprache: Drostes 

“Judenbuche” und der spratromantische Diskurs uder die judische Magie,” 

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Konneker, Barbara, ““Zauberei und Zauberer in der deutschen literatur des 16. 

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Kreisel, H., “Vertical Dreams and Prophecy in the Philosophy of Gersonides,” Da’at 22 

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Lacarenza, Giancarlo, “Magia giudaica nella sicilia tardoantica,” in Benedetto Rocco, 

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Langermann, Y. Tzvi, “Jewish Astrology and Occulty,” in P. F. Grendler, ed., 

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Lasker, Daniel J., “Gersonides on Dreams, Divination, and Astrology,” Proceedings of 

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Levene, A., “A Pharmaceutical Fragment of the 10 th Century in Hebrew by Shabbethai 

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Liss, Hanna, “Offenbarung und Weitergabe des gottlichen Namenns und die Reception 

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Marcus, S., “Magical Elements in the Hebrew Medical Manuscript ‘Book of 

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Marx, Alexander, “Astrology Among the Jews in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Century,” in 

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Magic and the Cairo Genizah 

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Isaacs, Haskell D., Medical and Para-Medical Manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah 

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Margalioth, M., ed., Sefer ha-Razim [The Book of the Mysteries] (Jerusalem: Ḳeren 

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Schaefer, Peter, and Shaul Shaked, Magische Texte aus der Kairoer Geniza. Vols. 1-3 

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Cairo Geniza (Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1992). 


Bohak, Gideon, “Greek, Coptic, and Jewish Magic in the Cairo Geniza,” Bulletin of the 

American Society of Papyrologists 36 (1999), pp. 27-44. 

Geller, Markham, and D. Levene, “Magical Texts from the Genizah (with a new 

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Seidel, J., “Of Amulets, Mystery, and Magic,” Genizah Fragments 17 (1989), p. 3. 

Shaked, Shaul, “An Early Magic Fragment from the Cairo Genizah [T.S.K. 1.70; T.S.K. 

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Shaked, Shaul, “Magic Moments,” Genizah Fragments 8 (1984), p. 2. 

Shaked, Shaul, “Magic Moments,” Genizah Fragments 9 (1985), p. 3. 

Swartz, Michael D., “Scribal Magic and its Rhetoric: Formal Patterns in Hebrew and 

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Veltri, Giuseppe, “Zur uberlieferung medizinisch-magisches traditionen: das ‘mitra 

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Wasserstrom, S. M., “The Magical Texts in the Cairo Geniza,” in J. Blau, S.C. Reif, eds., 

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Wasserstrom, S. M., “The Unwritten Chapter: Notes Towards a Social and Religious 

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Practice of Magic in Antiquity (Institute of Jewish Studies, Studies in Judaica, 4; 

Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2005), pp. 269-293. 

Magic and Kabbala 

Books 



Bischoff, Erich, Die Elemente der Kabbalah (Geheime Wissenschaften, 3; Berlin: 

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Magique (Paris: Sand, 1994). 

Dornseiff, Franz, Das Alphabet in Mystik und Magie (Leipzig-Berlin: B.G. Tübner, 

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Gonzalez-Wippler, Migene, and Johann Scheible, The New Revised Sixth and Seventh 

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Scholem, Gershom, Kabbalah (New York: Meridian, 1978), “Chrimancy,” pp. 317-319, 

“Demonology in Kabbalah,” pp. 320-326, “Golem,” pp. 351-355, “Lilith,” pp. 

352-355, “Samuel,” pp. 385-388. 

Sharf, Andrew, The Universe of Shabbetai Donnolo (New York: Ktav, 1976). 

Shir, Roni, Magyah u-mistikah ba-Yahadut: kabalah, kishif, yekholot àl-tivìyot 

(Jerusalem: Keter, 1997). 

Vital, Hayyim ben Yoseph, Goral kodesh ha-shalem: ve-hem 256 she-elot u-meyusad al 

12 mazalot [edited by Meir ben Yitshak Bakal] (Jerusalem: Hotsaat Bakal, 1964- 

1965). 

Zafrani, Haim, Kabbale, vie mystique et magie: judaisme d’Occident musulman (Paris: 

Maisonneuve & Larose, 1986). 

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Ackerman, Ari, “A Magical Fragment of David Ibu Bilia’s ‘Me’or Enayim’,” Kabbalah 1 

(1996), pp. 13-18. 

Bos, Gerrit, “Moshe Mizrachi on Popular Science in 17 th Century Syria-Palestine,” JSQ 

3 (1996), pp. 250-279. 

Dan, J., “Samuel, Lilith, and the Concept of Evil in Early Kabbalah,” AJS Review 5 

(1980), pp. 17-40. 

Foa, Anna, “L’immagine dell’ebreo tra magica e superstizione (xvii-xviii secolo),” in 

Paolo Alatri e Silvia Grassi, eds., La questione ebraica dall’lluminismo all’impro 

(1700-1815) (Napoli: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 1994), pp. 3-13. 

Goldmerstein, L., “Magical Sacrifice in the Jewish Kabbala,” Folklore 7 (1896), pp. 202 

204. 

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pp. 185-266 [Heb.]. 

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Graber, ed., The Solomon Goldman Lectures VI (Chicago, IL.: Spertus College of 

Judaism Press, 1993), pp. 125-138. 

Idel, Moshe, “On Judaism, Jewish Mysticism, and Magic,” in Peter Schafer and Hans G. 

Kippengerg, eds., Envisioning Magic: A Princeton Seminar and Symposium 


Idel, Moshe, “On Talismanic Language in Jewish Mysticism,” Diogenes 170 (1995), 

pp. 23-41. 

Idel, Moshe, “The Golem in Jewish Magic and Mysticism,” in Emily D. Bilski, ed., 

Golem! Danger, Deliverance, and Art (New York: Jewish Museum, 1985), 

pp. 15-35. 

Idel, Moshe, “The Magical and Neoplatonic Interpretations of the Kabbalah in the 

Renaissance,” in Bernard Dov Cooperman, ed., Jewish Thought in the Sixteenth 

Century (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983), pp. 186-242. 

Idel, Moshe, “Judaism, Jewish Mysticism, and Magic,” Jewish Studies 36 (1996), pp. 25- 

40 [Heb.]. 

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the Zohar,” in J. Dan, ed., The Beginnings of Jewish Mysticism in Medieval 

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Europe: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on the History of 

Jewish Mysticism (Jerusalem: Hebrew University, 1987), pp. 1-42. 

Levi, Israel, “Le Juif Sorcier,” REJ 22 (1891), pp. 232ff. 

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237ff. 

Patai, Raphael, “Exorcism and Xenoglassia Among the Safed Kabbalists,” in R. Patai, On 

Jewish Folklore (Detroit, MI.: Wayne State University Press, 1983). 

Yuval, Israel Jacob, “Magie und Kabbala unter den Juden im Deutschland des 

ausgehenden mittelalters,” in Karl E. Grozinger, ed., Judentum im deutschen 

sprachmaum (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1991), pp. 173-189. 

Golem 

Books 

Bilski, Emily D., ed., Golem! Danger, Deliverance, and Art (New York: Jewish 

Museum, 1985). 

Bloch, Chayim, The Golem: Legends of the Ghetto of Prague (Blauvelt, N.Y.: Rudolf 

Steiner Publications, 1972). 

Goldsmith, Arnold L., The Golem Remembered, 1909-1980: Variations of a Jewish 

Legend (Detroit, MI.: Wayne State University Press, 1981). 

Idel, Moshe, Golem: Jewish Magical and Mystical Tradition on the Artificial Anthropoid 

(Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1990). 

Mayer, Sigrid, Golem: Die Lietrarische Rezeption eines Stoffes (Bern and Frankfurt am 

Main, 1975). 

Rosenfeld, Beate, Die Golemsage und ihre Verwertung in der deutschen Literatur (Br 

Breslau: Priebatsch, 1934). 

Sherwin, Byron L., The Legend of the Golem: Origins and Implications (Lanham, MD.: 



Aaron, David H., “Imagery of the Divine and the Human: on the Mythology of Genesis 

Rabba 8:1,” JJTP 5 (1995), pp. 1-62. 

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Allison, Alida, “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner: The Golem as a Family Member in 

Jewish Children’s Literature,” The Lion and the Unicorn: A Critical Journal of 

Children’s Literature 14 (1990), pp. 92-97. 

Amsellem, Daniela, “Ebraismo, scienza e creazione letteraria: Primo Levi e I miti ebraici 

di lilit e del Golem,” in Marisa Carla and Luca De Angelis, eds., L’ebraismo nella 

letteratura italiana del Novecento (Palermo: Palumbro, 1995), pp. 123-151. 

Bilski, E., and Moshe Idel, “The Golem: An Historical Overview,” in Emily D. Bilski, 

ed., Golem! Danger, Deliverance, and Art (New York: Jewish Museum, 1985), 

pp. 10-14. 

Bilski, Emily D., “The Art of the Golem,” in Emily D. Bilski, ed., Golem! Danger, 

Deliverance, and Art (New York: Jewish Museum, 1985), pp. 44-110. 

Broslsma-Stancu, Simona, “Der Prager Golem: ein Polyganger,” in Albrecht Schone, 

ed., Kontroverson, alte und nue: Akten des VII Internationalen Germanisten 

Kongresses, Göttingen 1985 (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1986), pp. 187-195. 

Chaloupka, David, “Hugo Steiner-Prag und die Buhnenausstattung zur Oper ‘Golem’ von 

Eugen d’Albert,” Judaica Bohemiae 33 (1998), pp. 87-96. 

Comrada, Norma, “Golem and Robot: A Search for Connections,” Journal of the 

Fantastic in the Arts 7 (1996), pp. 244-254. 

Davidson, Jane, “Golem-Frankenstein-Golem of Your Own,” Journal of the 

Fantastic in the Arts 7 (1996), pp. 228-243. 

De Lange, Nicholos Robert Michael, “Hebrew/Greek Manuscripts: Some Notes,” JJS 46 

(1995), pp. 262-270. 

Goodman-Thau, Eveline, “Golem, Adam oder Antichrist: Kabbalistische Hintergrunde 

der Golemlegende in der Judischen und Deutschen Literatur des 19. 

Jahrhunderts,” in Eveline Goodman-Thau, Gert Mattenklott, and Christoph 

Schulte, eds., Kabbala und die Literatur der Romantik zwischen Magie und Trope 

(Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1999), pp. 81-134. 

Goska, Danusha V., “Golem as Gentil, Golem as Sabra: an Analysis of the Manipulation 

of Stereotypes of Self and Other in Literary Treatments of a Legendary Jewish 

Figure,” New York Folklore 23 (1997), pp. 39-64. 

Idel, Moshe, “An Astral-magical Pneumatic Anthropoid,” Incognito 2 (1991), pp. 9-31. 

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Idel, Moshe, “The Golem in Jewish Magic and Mysticism,” in Emily D. Bilski, ed., 

Golem! Danger, Deliverance, and Art (New York: Jewish Museum, 1985), 

pp. 15-35. 

Karst, Roman, “Gustav Meyrinks Traumwelt,” Franz Kafka-Gesellschaft: Schriftenreihe 

3 (1989), pp. 69-80. 

Kevenson-Hertz, B., “The Golem of Prague,” Jewish Spectator 46 (1981), n. 1. 

Kieval, Hillel Joseph, “Pursuing the Golem of Prague: Jewish Culture and the Invention 

of a Tradition,” Modern Judaism 17 (1997), pp. 1-23. 

Koven, Mikal J., “‘Have I got a Monster for you!’ Some thoughts on the Golem, ‘the X 

Files’ and the Jewish Horror Movie,” Folklore 111 (2000), pp. 217-230. 

Ledig, Elfi, “Making Movie Myths: Paul Wegener’s ‘The Golem’,” in Emily D. Bilski, 

ed., Golem! Danger, Deliverance, and Art (New York: Jewish Museum, 1985), 

pp. 36-43. 

Levy, Shimon, “The Performance of Creation: Creation in Performance,” in Gerard P. 

Luttikhuizen, ed., The Creation of Man and Women: Interpretations of the 

Biblical Narratives in Jewish and Christian Traditions (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2000), 

pp. 187-205. 

Lipton, Diana, “Skin and Bone, Spirit and Self: Interpreting Ezekiel’s Vision,” European 

Judaism 32 (1999), pp. 63-69. 

Maier, Johann, “Magisch-theurgische uberlieferungen im mittelalterlichen: 

beobachtungen zu ‘terafim’ und ‘golem’” in Helmut Birkhan, ed., Die Juden in 

ihrer mitterlalterlichen Umwielt (Bern: Peter Lang, 1992), pp. 249-287. 

Mayer, S., “Der Golem-Stoff in den Vereinigten Staaten,” in Elemente der Literatur: 

Beiträge zur Stoffforschung, Motivforschung und Themenforschung. Elisabeth 

Frenzel zum 65. Geburtstag. Vols. 1-2 (Stuttgart: Kröner, 1980), pp. 155-174. 

Necker, Gerold, “Warnung vor der Schopfermacht: die Reflexion der Golem-Tradition in 

der Vorrede des Psuedo-Saadya-Kommentars zum Sefer Yesira,” Frankfurter 

Judaistische Beitrage 21 (1994), pp. 31-67. 

Ozick, Cynthia, “The Puttermesser Papars,” Haddasah 79 (1997), pp. 14-15. 

Reffet, Michel, “Der Golem-Mythos in Franz Werfels Werk,” Franz Kafka-Gesellschaft: 

Schriftenreihe 3 (1989), pp. 136-152. 

Schafer, Peter, “The Magic of the Golem: the Early Development of the Golem Legend,” 

JJS 46 (1995), pp. 249-261. 

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Scheiber, Alexander, “Die Golem-Sage in der ungarischen Literatur,” in A. Scheiber, 

Essays on Jewish Folklore and Comparative Literature (Budapest: Akademiai 

Kiado, 1985), pp. 156-160. 

Scholem, Gershom, “Der Golem von Prag und der Golem von Rehevot,” Judaica 2 

(1970), pp. 77-86. 

Scholem, Gershom, “The Golem of Prague and the Golem of Rehovot,” in G. Scholem, 

The Messianic Idea in Judaism (New York: Schocken, 1971), pp. 335-340. 

Scholem, Gershom, “The Idea of the Golem,” in G. Scholem, On the Kabbalah and its 

Sybolism (New York: Schocken, 1969), pp. 158-204. 

Scholem, Gershom, “The Image of the Golem in its Tellurian and Magical Context,” in 

G. Scholem, Elements of the Kabbalah and it Symbolism (Jerusalem: Mosad 

Biyalik, 1976), pp. 381-424 [Heb.]. 

Sherwin, Byron L., “The Golem, Zevi Ashkenazi, and Reproductive Biotechnology,” 

Judaism 44 (1995), pp. 314-322. 

Soud, Stephen E., “Borges the Golem-Maker: Intimations of ‘Presence’ in the ‘Circular 

Ruins’,” Modern Language Notes 110 (1995), pp. 739-754. 

Varelo Moreno, Maria Encarnacion, “La Leyenda del ‘golem’ origenes y modernas 

derivaciones,” MEAH 44 (1995), pp. 61-79. 

Volkov, Anatolij, “Transformation des traditionellen Themas der Erschaffun eines 

kunstlichen Menschen in der osterreichen und ukrainischen Literatur (Golem 

Sage),” in Wolfgang Kraus and Dmytro Zatons’kyj, eds., Von Taras Sevcenko bis 

Joseph Roth (Bern: Peter Lang, 1995), pp. 93-104. 

Yassif, Eli, “From Ancient to Modern Jewish Mythologies,” in Glenda Abramson, ed., 

Modern Jewish Mythologies (Cincinnati, OH.: Hebrew Union College Press, 

2000), pp. 149-160. 

Maimonides 

Freudenthal, Gad, “Maimonides’ Stance on Astrology in Context: Cosmology, Physics, 

Medicine, and Providence,” in Fred Rosner and Samuel Kotteck, ed., Moses 

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1993), pp. 77-90. 

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Kreisel, Howard, “Maimonides’ Approach to Astrology,” in D. Assaf, ed., Proceedings 

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Langermann, Y. Tzvi, “Maimonides’ Repudiation of Astrology,” Maimonidean Studies 2 

(1991), pp. 123-158. 

Langermann, Y. Tzvi, “Maimonides and Astronomy: Some Further Reflections,” in Y. 

Tzvi Langermann, ed., The Jews and the Sciences in the Middles Ages (Aldershot: 

Ashgate, 1999), chapt. 4. 

Langermann, Y. Tzvi, “Maimonides Repudiation of Astrology,” in Robert S. Cohen and 

Hillel Levine, eds., Maimonides and the Sciences (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic 

Press, 2000), pp. 131-157. 

Lerner, R., “Maimonides’ Letter on Astrology,” History of Religions 8 (1968), pp. 143- 

158. 

Lewis, H. S., “Maimonides on Superstition,” JQR 17 (1905), pp. 401-410. 

Moses Maimonides, “Letter on Astrology,” in R. Lerner and Muhsin Mahdi, eds., 

Medieval Political Philosophy (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1963), pp. 

227-236. 

Muntner, Z., “The Rambam as Astronomer,” Mahanaim 126 (1971), pp. 164-167 [Heb.]. 

Nemoy, L., “Maimonides Opposition to Occultism,” Ha-Rofe ha-Ivri 2 (1954), pp. 102- 

109 [Heb.]. 

Ravitzky, A., “Maimonides and His Disciples on Linguistic Magic and the Madness of 

the Writers of Amulets,” in A. Sagi and N. Ilan, eds., Jewish Culture in the Eye of 

the Storm: A Jubilee Book in Honor of Yodef Ahituv (Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz 

Hameuchad, 2002), pp. 431-458. 

Safran, B., “Maimonides Attitude to Magic and to Related Types of Thinking,” in B. 

Safran and E. Safran, ed., Porat Yosef: Studies Presented to Rabbi Dr. Joseph 

Safran (Hoboken, N.J.: Ktav, 1992), pp. 92-110. 

Stern, Josef, “The Fall and Rise of Myth in Ritual: Maimonides versus Nahmanides on 

the Huqqim, Astrology, and the War Against Idolatry,” JJTP 6 (1997), pp. 185- 

263. 

Alchemy 

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Books 

Patai, Raphael, The Jewish Alchemist: A History and Source Book (Princeton: Princeton 


Scholem, Gershom, Alchemie und Kabbala (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 

1984). 

Schwarz, Arturo, Kabbalah and Alchemy (Northvale, N.J.: Aronson, 2000). 


Berger, Heinrich, “Alchimie,” in Heinrich Berger, ed., Geschichte der Juden in 

Krotoschin (Krotoschin, 1907), pp. 2-24. 

Bos, Gerit, “Hayyim Vital’s ‘Practical Kabalah and Alchemy’ a 17 th Century Book of 

Secrets,” JJTP 4 (1994), pp. 55-112. 

Eisler, R., “Zur Terminologe der Judischen Alchemie,” Monatsschrift fuer Geschichte 

und Wissenschaft des Judentams 69 (1925), pp. 364-371. 

Idel, Moshe, “The Origin of Alchemy According to Zosimos and a Hebrew Parallel,” 

REJ 145 (1986), pp. 117-124. 

Patai, Raphael, “Esh M’tzaref-A Kabbalistic-Alchemical Treatise,” in R. Dan, ed., 

Occident and Orient (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1988), pp. 299-313. 

Patai, Raphael, “Maria the Jewess: Founding Mother of Alchemy,” Ambix 29 (1982), pp. 

177-197. 

Scholem, Gershom, “Alchemi und Kabbala: Ein Kapitel aus der Geschichte der Mystik,” 

Monatsschrift fuer Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judentams 69 (1925), pp. 13 

30, 95-110, 371-374; 

Scholem, Gershom, “Alchemi und Kabbala: Ein Kapitel aus der Geschichte der Mystik,” 

Monatsschrift fuer Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judentams 70 (1926), pp. 

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Suler, Bernard, “Alchemy,” Encyclopedia Judaica. Vol. 2 (Jerusalem: Keter, 1973), pp. 

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Sefer Hasidim 

Ben-Samuel, Judah, Sefer Hasidim (Lemberg: Gedrukt bay Dov Berish Lurya, 1867). 

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Borchers, Susanna, “Hexem in ‘Sefer Hasidim’,” Henoch 16 (1994), pp. 271-293. 

“Sefer Hasidim,” Encyclopedia Judaica. Vol. 7 (Jerusalem: Keter, 1971), pp. 1388- 

1390. 

Sefer Hasidim: mevo’ar menukad u-mefusak (Yerushalayim: Mekhon rishonim, 1993). 

Sefer Hasidim-Das Buch der Frommen (nach der Rezension in Cod. Rossi, No. 1133), J. 

Wistinetzki, 2 nd ed., with Introduction by J. Freimann (Frankfurt: Wahrmann, 

1924). 

Singer, Sholom A., Transl. and ed., Sefer Hasidim (Northbrook, IL.: Whitehall Co., 

1971). 

The Key of Solomon 

Books 

Alhazred, Abdul, Das Necromomicon (Berlin: Verlag Richard Schikowski, 1980). 

Clavicus Salomonis (The Key of Solomon), Translated and editied from manuscripts in 

the British Museum by S. Liddell MacGregor Mathers (York Beach, Maine: 

Samuel Weiser, Inc., 2000) [Originally published: London: G. Redway, 1889]. 

Gollancz, Hermann, Sepher Mapteach Shelomo (Book of the Key of Solomon): An Exact 

Facsimile of an Original Book of Magic in Hebrew (London: Oxford University 

Press, 1914). 


Rohrbacher-Sticker, C., “A Hebrew Manuscript of Clavicula Salomonis: Part II,” British 

Library Journal 21 (1995), pp. 128-136. 

Rohrbacher-Sticker, C., “Mafteah Shelomo: A New Acquisition of the British Library,” 

JSQ 21 (1993-4), pp. 263-270. 

Islam 

Bosworth, C. E., “Jewish Elements in the Banu Sasan,” BO 33 (1976), pp. 1-17 [= 

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Fahd, T., “Magic in Islam,” in Mircea Eliade, ed., Encyclopedia of Religion. Vol. 9 (New 

York: MacMillan, 1987), pp. 104-109. 

Friendlander, Israel, “A Muhammaden Book on Augury in Hebrew Character,” JQR 

(O.S.) 19 (1907), pp. 84-103. 

Golb, N., “The Esoteric Practices of the Jews of Fatimid Egypt,” American Philosophical 

Society Yearbook (1965), pp. 535-555. 

Goldziher, Ignaz, “Hebraische Elemente in muhammedanischen Zauberspruchen,” 

ZDMG 48 (1894), pp. 350-360. 

Lecker, Michael, “The Bewitching of the Prophet Muhammed by the Jews: A Not 

Apropos àbd al-Malik b. Habib ‘Mukhtasar fi l-tibb,” Al-Qantara 13 (1992), pp. 

561-569 [= Michal Lecker, ed., Jews and Arabs in Pre and Early Islamic Arabia 

(Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998)]. 

Patai, Raphael, “The Love Factor in a Hebrew-Arabic Conjuration,” JQR 70 (1980), pp. 

239-253. 

Shaked, Shaul, “Medieval Jewish Magic in Relation to Islam: Theoretical Attitudes and 

Genres,” in Benjamin H. Hary, John L. Hayes, and Fred Asten, eds., Judaism and 

Islam: Boundaries, Communication, and Interaction: Essays in Honor of William 

M. Brinner (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2000), pp. 97-109. 

Shaked, Shaul, “On Jewish Magical Literature in Muslim Countries-Notes and 

Examples,” Pe’amim 15 (1983), pp. 15-26. 

Vajda, G., “Sur Quelqes elements Juifs et pseudo-Juifs dans l’encyclopedie de Buni,” in 

S. Lowinger and J. de Somogyi, eds., Ignaz Goldziher Memorial Volume 

(Budapest, 1948), pp. 387-392. 

Magic and the Modern Period 

Books 

Chajes, Jeffrey Howard, Between Worlds: Dybbuks, Exorcists, and Early Modern 

Judaism (Philadelphia, PA.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003). 

Firestone, Melvin M., Magical Curing in the Seattle Sephardic Community (M.A. Thesis: 

University of Washington, 1959). 

Leschnitzer, Adolf, The Magic Background of Modern Anti-Semitism: an Analysis of the 

German-Jewish Relationship (New York: International Universities Press, 1956). 

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Bazak, B., “Rabbi Kook as an Exorcist,” Shana be-Shana (1976), pp. 387-391 [Heb.]. 

Chajes, J. H., “Judgements Sweetened: Possession and Exorcism in Early Modern Jewish 

History,” Journal of Early Modern History 1 (1997), pp. 124-169. 

Etkes, E., “The Role of Magic and the Ba’alei-Shem in Ashkenazic Society in the Late 

Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries,” Zion 60 (1995), pp. 69-104. 

Gertel, Elliot, “White Magic Religion,” Jewish Spectator Fall (1998), pp. 10-11. 

Grozinger, Karl Erich, “Judische Wunderrabiner: R. Nathan Adler und sein Kreis,” in 

Julius Carlebach, ed., Das Aschkenasische Rabbinat (Berlin: Metropol, 1995), pp. 

151-163. 

Kilcher, Andreas B., “Das Magische Gesetz der hebraischen Sprache, Drostes 

‘Judenbuch’ und der spatromantische biskurseder die judische magie,” Zeitschrift 

für deutsche Philologie 118 (1999), pp. 234-265. 

Verman. Mark, “Signor Tarquillo’s Magic Notebook,” in Joseph Dan and Klaus Herman, 

eds., Studies in Jewish Manuscripts (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1999), pp. 231- 

237. 

Zlotchew, Clark M., “Magic Realism and the Twentieth Century Inquisition,” Jewish 

Affairs 53 (1998), pp. 25-29. 

Medicine--Healing 

Books 

Davis, Eli, The Quack: a Tale of Diabetics, Rheumatics, Olives (Jerusalem: Ruben Mass, 

1986). 

Friedwald, Harry, The Jews and Medicine. Vols. 1-2 (Baltimore, MD.: Johns Hopkins 

Press, 1944). 

Hogan, Larry P., Healing in the Second Temple Period (Novum Testamentum et Orbis 

Antiquus, 21, Freiburg; Universitatsverlag and Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & 

Ruprecht, 1992). 

Jacob, I., and W. Jacob, The Healing Past: Pharmaceuticals in the Biblical and Rabbinic 

World (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1993). 

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Kagan, S. R., Jewish Medicine (Boston: Medico-Historical Press, 1952). 

Melzer, Aviv, Asaph the Physician—The Man and his Book: A Historical-Philological 

Study of the Medical Treatise, the Book of Drugs (Ph.D. Dissertation: University 

of Wisconsin, 1972). 

Muntner, Sussman, Mavo le-Sefer ‘Asaf ha-Rofe (Jerusalem: Genizah, 1967). 

Preis, K., Dei Medizin in der Kabbala (Frankfurt am Main, 1928). 

Preuss, J., Biblical and Talmudic Medicine (New York: Sanhedrin, 1978). 

Venetianer, Ludwig, Asaf Judaeus: Der Aelteste Medicinizinsche Schrifsteller in 

Hebraeischer Sprache (Budapest: A. Alkalay & Sohn Nachf., 1915). 

Zimmels, Hirsch Jacob, Magicians, Theologians, and Doctors: Studies in Folk Medicine 

and Folklore and Reflected in the Rabbinical Responsa 12 th -19 th Centuries 



Amundsen, Daniel W., and Gary B. Ferngren, “Medicine and Religion: Pre-Christian 

Antiquity,” in M. Marty, ed., Health/Medicine and the Faith Tradition 

(Philadelphia, PA.: Fortress Press, 1982), pp. 53-92. 

Bar-Sela, A., and H. E. Hoff, “Asaf on Anatomy and Pyhsiology,” JHM 20 (1965), pp. 

358-389. 

Bilu, Yoram, “Rabbi Wazana: A Jewish Healer in the Atlas Mountains,” Culture, 

Medicine, and Psychiatry 12 (1988), pp. 113-135. 

Buchler, A., “A 12 th Century Physicians Desk Book, the ‘Secreta Sectretorium’ of Petrus 

Alphonsi-Quondam-Moses-Sephardi,” JJS 57 (1986), pp. 206-212. 

Flusser, David, “Qumran and Medicine,” in Illness and Healing in Ancient Times (Haifa: 

Reuben and Edith Hecht Museum, 1996), pp. 30-31 

Freeman, David L., “The Gittin ‘Book of Remedies’,” Korot 13 (1998-1999), pp. 151- 

164. 

Geller, Markham J., “Akkadian Medicine in the Talmud,” in Dan Cohn-Sherbock, ed., A 

Traditional Quest: Essays in Honour of Louis Jacobs (JSOT Supplement Series, 

114; Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1991), pp. 102-112. 

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Golinkin, David, “The Use of Matronymics in Prayers for the Sick,” in Aharon Demsky, 

ed., These Are the Names: Studies in Jewish Onomastics. Vol. 3 (Ramat-Gan, 

Israel: Bar-Ilan, 2002), pp. 59-72. 

Kottek, Samuel S., “Magic and Healing in Hellenistic Jewish Writings,” FJB 27 (2005), 

pp. 1-16. 

Lieber, E., “An Ongoing Mystery: the So-called Book of Medicines Attributed to Assaf 

the Sage,” Bulletin of Judeo-Greek Studies 6 (1991), pp. 18-25. 

Lieber, E., “Asaf’s Book of Medicines: A Hebrew Encyclopedia of Greek and Jewish 

Magic, Possibly Compiles on an Indian Model,” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 38 

(1984), pp. 233-249. 

Lieber, E., “The Covenant Which Asaf…and Yohanan…Made with their Pupils,” in J. O. 

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Institute for the History of Medicine, 1983), pp. 83-87. 

Muntner, Sussman, “The Antiquity of Asaph the Physician and his Editorship of the 

Earliest Hebrew Book of Medicine,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 25 

(1951), pp. 101-131. 

Muntner, Sussman, “Asaf ha-Rofe, Sefer ha-Refuoth,” Koroth 3 (1965), pp. 396-422. 

Muntner, Sussman, “Asaph ha-Rofe,” Enyclopedia Judaica. Vol. 3 (Jerusalem: Keter, 

1973), pp. 673-675. 

Muntner, Sussman, “Donnolo et la contribution des Juifs aux premieres oeuvres de la 

medicine salernitaine” Revue d’histoire de la medecine hebraique 9 (1956), 

pp. 155-161. 

Newmyer, S., “Asaph the Jew and Greco-Roman Pharmaceutics,” in I. Jacob and W. 

Jacob eds., Pharmaceuticals in the Biblical and Rabbinic World (Leiden: E. J. 

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Noy, Dov, “Talmudic-Midrashic ‘Healing Stories’ as a Narrative Genre,” in Koroth 9 

(1988), pp. 124-146. 

Nudelman, Anita, “Divination as Prevention of Illness and other Life Problems,” in 

Tudor Parfitt and Emanuela Trevisan Semi, eds., The Beta Israel in Ethopia and 

Israel (Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 1999), pp. 264-274. 

Pines, Shlomo, “The Oath of Asaph the Physician and Yohanan ben Zabda: Its Relation 

to the Hipocratic Oath and the Doctrina Duarum Viarum of the Didachii,” 

Proceedings of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities 5 (1976), pp. 223 

264. 

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Shapiro, N., “R. Huna’s Views on Medicine and Public Health,” Koroth 9 (1988), 

pp. 262-269. 

Shatzmiller, Joseph, “In Search of the ‘Book of Remedies’: Medicine and Astrology in 

Montpellier at the Turn of the Fourteenth Century,” AJS Review 7-8 (1982-1983), 

pp. 383-407. 

Steinschneider, Moritz, “Assaf” Hebraische Bibliographe 12 (1872), pp. 85-88. 

Steinschneider, Moritz, “Zur Medizinischen Literatur: Assaf, “ Hebraische Bibliographe 

19 (1879), pp. 35-38, 64-70, 84-89, 105-109. 

Steinschneider, Moritz, “Medicinische Handschriften,” Magazin für die Wissenschaft des 

Judenthums 10 (1883), pp. 101-112, 157-169. 

Steinschneider, Moritz, “Zur medicinishen Literature,” HB 17 (1877), pp. 56ff., 114ff.; 

19 (1879), pp. 35, 64, 84, 105, 108. 

Varol, Marie-Christine, “Recipes of Magic-Religious Medicine as Expressed 

Linguistically,” in Avigdor Levy, ed., Jews, Turks, Ottomans: A Shared History, 

Fifteenth through the Twentieth Century (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University 

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Veltri, Giussepe, “Magic in Ancient Judaism: the Key to Understanding Medicine, 

Sciences, and the Arts?” Judaism Today 10 (1998), pp. 11-14. 

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Light of Egyptian Medical Papyri,” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied 

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and Peter Schäfer, eds., Creation and Re-Creation in Jewish Thought: Festschrift 

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Mohr, 2005), pp. 147-164. 

McCollough, C. Thomas, “An Aramaic Amulet from Sepphoris,” Atiqot 28 (1996), pp. 

161-165. 

McCollough, C. Thomas, “Magic and Medicine in Byzantine Galilee: A Bronze Amulet 

from Sepphoris,” in Douglas R. Edwards and C. Thomas McCollough, eds., 

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Byzantine Periods (Atlanta, GA.: Scholars Press, 1997), pp. 143-149. 

Millik, J. T., “Une Amulette Judeo-Arameene,” Bib 48 (1967), pp. 450-451. 

Montgomery, James, “Some Early Amulets from Palestine,” JAOS 31 (1911), pp. 272- 

281. 

Montgomery, James, “A Jewish Mortuary Amulet,” JAOS 38 (1918), pp. 140-141. 

Nash, W. L., “A Hebrew Amulet Against Disease,” PSBA 28 (1906), pp. 182-184. 

Naveh, Joseph, “Amulets and Illnesses in Antiquity,” in Illness and Healing in Ancient 

Times (Haifa: Reuben and Edith Hecht Museum, 1996), pp. 24-28. 

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Arameans, Aramaic, and the Aramaic Literary Tradition (Ramat-Gan, Israel: Bar 

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Naveh, Joseph, “An Ancient Amulet of a Modern Forgery?” CBQ 44 (1982), pp. 282- 

284. 

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in the Archaeology and History of Ancient Israel (Haifa: Haifa University Press, 

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Pummer, R., “Samaritan Amulets from the Roman Byzantine Period and their Wearers,” 

RB 94 (1987), pp. 251-253. 

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144. 

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Rosen-Ayalon, Myriam, “A Judeo-Persian Amulet,” in Shaul Shaked and Amnon Netzer, 

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915. 

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Scythia to Siberia 3 (1996), pp. 218-240. 

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(1996), pp. 33-47. 

Vincent, H., “Amulette judeo-arameene,” RBI ns 5 (1908), pp. 382-394. 

Weyl, R., and I. Rosner, “Investigating the Significance of a Judeo-Christian Ring 

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Yardeni, Ada, “Remarks on the Priestly Blessing on Two Ancient Amulets from 

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Dreams and Dream Interpretation 

General 

Books 

Admon, Bosmat, Itshe Goldberg, and Eli Morag, Pitron Halomot lefi ha-Yahadut (Hod 

Ha-Sharon: Astrolog, 1995). 

Atti del Convegno Nazionale: Il Sogno nella Bibbia: Ravenna 7-8 Maggio 1988 

(Settimello, Italy: Biblia, Associazione Laica di Cultura Biblica, 1989). 

Benson, Carmen, Supernatural Dreams and Visions: Bible Prophecy for the Future 

Revealed (Plainfield, N.J.: Logos Internation, 1970). 

Borbely, Geza, Dreams and Their Consequences in the Joseph Story (M.A. Thesis: 

Presbyterian Theological Seminary, 1999). 

Boteach, Shmuel, Dreams (Brooklyn, NY: Bash Publications, 1991). 

Covitz, Joel, Visions of the Night: A Study of Jewish Dream Interpretation (Boston: 

Shambala, 1990). 

104

Harris, Monford, Studies in Jewish Dream Interpretation (Northvale, N.J.: J. Aaronson, 

1994). 

Lowinger, A., Der Traum in der judischen Literatur (Leipzig: M. W. Kaufmann, 1908). 

Malter, Henry, “Dreams as a Cause of Literary Compositions,” in Studies in Jewish 

Literature in Honor Prof. Kaufmann Kohler (Berlin: G. Reimer, 1913), pp. 199- 

203. 

Malter, Henry, Dreams as a Cause of Literary Compositions (Berlin: George Reimer, 

1913). 

Maree, Kobus, Praat God nog deur drome? (Kappstad: Lux Verbi, 1999). 


Bilu, Yoram, “Dreams and the Wishes of the Saint,” in Goldber, Harvey E., ed., Judaism 

Viewed from Within and from Without: Anthropological Studies (Albany, N.Y.: 

SUNY Press, 1987), pp. 285-313. 

Cohen, B., “Über Traumdeutung in der jüdischen Tradition,” Imago 18 (1932), pp. 117- 

121. 

Hasan-Rokem, Galit, “Communication with the Dead in Jewish Dream Culture,” in 

David Shulman and Guy D. Stroumsa, eds., Dream Cultures: Explorations in the 

Comparative History of Dreaming (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 

pp. 213-232. 

Husser, Jean-Marie, “Songe” in F. Vigoroux, ed., Supplément au dictionnaire de la Bible. 

Vol. 6 (Paris: Letouzey et Ané, 1996), pp. 1439-1543. 

Thomson, J. G., “Sleep: an Aspect of Jewish Anthropology,” VT 5 (1955), pp. 421-433. 

Bible 

Books 

Amyrant, Moise, A Discourse Concerning the Divine Dreams Mentioned in Scripture. 

Transl. J. Lowde (London: Printed by A.C. for Walter Kettilby, 1676). 

Bar, Shaul, A Letter That Has Not Been Read: Dreams in the Hebrew Bible (Cincinnati, 

OH.: Hebrew Union College Press, 2001). 

Bar, Shaul, Dreams in the Bible (Ph.D. Dissertation: New York University, 1987). 

105

Burnier-Benton, Jean, Le Reve Subversif dun sage: Daniel 7 (Geneve: Labor et Fides, 

1993). 

Carr, David McLain, From D to Q: A Study of Early Jewish Interpretation of Solomon’s 

Dream at Gibean (Society of Biblical Literature Monograph Series, 44; Atlanta: 

Scholars Press, 1991). 

Egmont, Westy A., The Use of Biblical Dream Narratives for Personal Growth (Ph.D. 

Dissertation: Andover Newton Theological School, 1977). 

Ehrlich, Ernst Ludwig, Der Traum im Alten Testament (BZAW 73: Berlin: Verlag Alfred 

Töpelmann, 1953). 

Fidler, Ruth, “Dreams Speak Falsely”? Dream Theophanies in the Bible: Their Place in 

Ancient Israelite Faith and Tradition (Jerusalem: Hebrew University Magness 

Press, 2005) [Heb.]. 

Gibert, Pierre, Le recit biblique de reve (Lyon: Profac, 1990). 

Gnuse, Robert Karl, Dream Theophany of Samuel: its Structure in Relation to Ancient 

Near Eastern Dreams and its Theological Significance (Lanham: University Press 

of America, 1984). 

Gnuse, Robert Karl, The Dream Motif in the Theology of the Elohist: An Investigation 

into the Relationship of Dreams in the “E” Source to the Overall Theology of the 

Elohist, other Old Testament Theologica (S. T. M. Thesis: Joint Theological 

Education, 1975). 

Green, Barbara, What Profit for Us?: Remembering the Story of Joseph (Lanham, MD.: 


Hark, Helmut, Der Traum als Gottes vergessene Sprache (Olten: Walter-Verlag, 1982, 

1985). 

Helin, Maurice, Le Clef des songes: les songes de Daniel (Geneva: Slatkine Reprints, 

1977). 

Hendricks, Lois Lindsey, Discovering My Biblical Dream Heritage (San Jose, CA: 

Resource Publications, 1989). 

Husser, Jean Marie, Dreams and Dream Narratives in the Biblical World. Transl. J. 

Munro (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999). 

Husser, Jean-Marie Dreams and Dream Narratives in the Biblical World (Biblical 

Seminar, 63; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999). 

106

Husser, Jean-Marie, le Songe et la parole: Etude sur le reve et sa function dans l’ancien 

Israel (BZAW 210; Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1994). 

Lipton, Diana, Revisions of the Night: Politics and Promises in the Patriarchal Dreams 

of Genesis (Sheffield, Sheffield Academic Press, 1999). 

Lockyer, Herbert, Dreams in Scriptures (Grand Rapids, MI.: Zondervan, 1937). 

Lowden, Robert E., Dreams in the Old Testament (M.A. Thesis: Dallas Theological 

Seminary, 1984). 

McAlpine, T. H., Sleep, Divine, and Human in the Old Testament (JSOTSup, 38; 

Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1987). 

McCauley, John, God’s Communications: Dreams, Visions, and Trances (Vanier Station, 

Ontario: Ean-druim Publications, 1995). 

Moyer, David, Daniel’s Dream (Lebanon, PA: Red Howler Press, 2000). 

Noegel, Scott B., Nocturnal Ciphers: The Allusive Language of Dreams in the Ancient 

Near East (American Oriental Series, 89; New Haven, CT.: American Oriental 

Society, 2007). 

Oppenheim, A. L., The Interpretation of Dreams in the Ancient Near East: With a 

Translation of the Assyrian Dream Book (Transactions of the American 

Philosophical Society: Volume 46:3; Philadelphia, PA: American Philosophical 

Society, 1956) [Reprint: Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2008, with Introduction 

by Scott B. Noegel, pp. iii-viii]. 

Oser, Fritz, Hermann-Josef Venetz, and Rene Merz, Ich hatte einen Traum: die 

literarische Gattung des traumes, Sprache und Bedeutund des Traumes in der 

Bible und in der personlischen Erfahrung (Olten: Walter-Verlag, 1972). 

Page, Hugh Rowland, Jr., And He Dreamed: A Rhetorical Critical Examination of 

Genesis 37:1-11, 40, and 41:1-45 (S. T. M. Thesis: General Theological 

Seminary, 1983). 

Resch, Andreas, Der Traum im Heilsplan Gottes: Deutung und Bedeutung des Traums im 

Alten Testament (Freiburg: Herder, 1964). 

Saporettim, Claudio, Come sognavano gli antichi: sogni della Mesopotamia e dei popolo 

vivini (Milano: Rusconi, 1996). 

Schroeder, Frederick W., Visions and Renewal: Dynamic Dreams and Vitalizing Vision 

in the Bible (St. Louis: Eden, 1972). 

107

Silva, Aldina da, La Symbolique des reves et des vetements dans histoire de Joseph et de 

ses freres (Saint-Laurent, Quebec: Fides, 1994). 

Snedeker, Kathryn S., Dreams in the Bible: A Depth Psychological Perspective in 

Biblical Dreams (Albion, MI.: Albion College, 1982). 

Sweek, Joel, Dreams of Power from Sumer to Judah: An Essay on the Divinatory 

Economy of the Ancient Near East (Ph.D. Dissertation: University of Chicago, 

1996). 

Toueg, Rebecca, and M. Dubi, Dreams and Visions in the Bible (Tel Aviv: Women’s 

International Organization, Department of Organization and Education, 1992). 

Walter, Gerry H., Dreams in the Literature of the Ancient Near East and the Babylonian 

Talmud (M.A. Thesis: Hebrew Union College, 1974). 

Wolffsohn, S., Die Oneirologie im Talmud, oder der Traum in der Bibel als Ursache und 

Wirkung nach der Auffassung des Talmuds (Breslau: F. W. Jungfer, 1874). 


Bailey, R. F., “Is ‘Sleep” the Proper Biblical Term for the Intermediate State,” ZNW 55 

(1964), pp. 161-167. 

Bergmann, E., G., Botterweck and M. Ottosson, “Halam/Halom,” in G. Botterwerk and 

H. Ringgren, eds., Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament. Vol. 6 (Grand 

Rapids, MI.: Eerdmans, 1974-2006), pp. 421-432. 

Caquot, Andre, “Les songes et leur interpretation selon Canaan et Israel,” in Les Songes 

et elur interpretation (Sources Orientales 2; Paris: Le Seuil, 1959), pp. 101-124. 

Cavaletti, S., “L’Incubazione nell’Antico Testamento,” RivB 8 (1960), pp. 42-48. 

Cooper, J. S., “Sargon and Joseph: Dreams Come True,” in A. Kort, ed., Biblical and 

Related Studies Presented to Samuel Iwry (Winona Lake, IN.: Eisenbrauns, 

1985), pp. 33-39. 

Couffignal, E. L., “Le Songe de Jacob: Approches Nouvelles de Genese 28:10-22,” Bib 

58 (1977), pp. 342-360. 

Finkel, Asher, “The Pesher of Dreams and Scriptures,” RdQ 15 (1963), pp. 357-370. 

108

Fishbane, Michael, “The Mantological Exegesis of Dreams, Visions, and Omens,” in 

M Fishbane, Biblical Interpretation in Ancient Israel (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 

1985), pp. 447-457. 

Frieden, Ken, “Dream Interpretors in Exile: Joseph, Daniel, and Sigmund (Solomon), in 

V. Tollers and J. Maier, eds., Mappings of the Biblical Terrain: The Bible as a 

Text (Lewisburg, PA.: Bucknell University Press, 1990), pp. 193-203. 

Gaster, Theodor H., “Dreams. In the Bible,” Encyclopaedia Judaica. Vol. 6 (Jerusalem: 

Keter, 1971), cols. 208-211. 

Gaster, Theodor H., “Dreams. In the Bible,” Encyclopaedia Judaica. Vol. 6 (Jerusalem: 

Keter, 2007), pp. 8-10. 

Gnuse, Robert Karl, “The Jewish Dream Interpreter in a Foreign Court: the Recurring use 

of a theme in Jewish Literature,” Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 7 

(1990), pp. 29-53. 

Gnuse, Robert Karl, “Dreams in the Night-Scholarly Mirage or Theosophanic Formula? 

The Dream Report as Motif of the so-Called Elohist Tradition,” BZ 39 (1995), pp. 

28-58. 

Gnuse, Robert Karl, “The Jewish Dream Interpreter in a Foreign Court: The Recurring 

use of a Theme in Jewish Literature,” JSP 7 (1990), pp. 29-53. 

Harbusm Antonina, “Nebuchadnezzar’s Dreams in Old English ‘Daniel’,” English 

Studies 75 (1994), pp. 489-508. 

Husser, Jean-Marie, “Les metamorphoses d’un songe,” RB 28 (1991), pp. 321-342. 



Jeffers, Ann, “Divination by Dream in Ugaritic Literature and in the Old Testament,” IBS 

12 (1990), pp. 167-183. 

Lichtenstein, Murrey, “Dream Theophany and the E Document,” Journal of the Ancient 

Near Eastern Society 1-2 (1969), pp. 45-54. 

Millar, James E., “Dreams and Prophetic Visions,” Biblica 71 (1990), pp. 401-404. 

Miller, J. E., “Dreams and Prophetic Visions,” Bib 71 (1990), pp. 401-404. 

Niehoff, Maren Ruth, “A Dream Which is Not Interpreted is like a Letter Which is Not 

Read,” JJS 43 (1992), pp. 58-84. 

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Noegel, Scott B., “Dreams and Dream Interpreters in Mesopotamia and in the Hebrew 

Bible (Old Testament),” in Kelly Bulkeley, ed., Dreams and Dreaming: A Reader 

in Religion, Anthropology, History, and Psychology (Hampshire, UK: Palgrave- 

St. Martin’s Press), pp. 45-71. 

Priest, J. F., “Myth and Dream in Hebrew Scripture,” in J Campbell, ed., Myths, Dreams, 

and Religion (New York: Dutton, 1970), pp. 48-67. 

Richter, Wolfgang, “Traum und Traumdeutung im Alten Testament” BZ 7 (1963), pp. 

202-220. 

Richter, Wolfgang, “Traum und Traumdeutung im AT,” BZ 7 (1963), pp. 202-220. 

Ruble, Richard, “Doctrine of Dreams,” Bibliotheca Sacra 125 (1968), pp. 560-564. 

Schmidtke, F., “Traum, Orakel, und Totengeister als Kunder der Zukunft in Israel und 

Babylon,” BZ 11 (1967), pp. 240-246. 

Seow, Choon-Leong, “Solomon’s Dream in its Syro-Palestinian Context,” (unpublished 

Harvard Seminar Paper, 1981). 

Seow, Choon-Leong, “The Syro-Palestine Context of Solomon’s Dreams,” HTR 77 

(1984), pp. 141-152. 

Tanner, Morgan, “Dreams in the Hebrew Bible,” Epoche 16 (1988), pp. 12-21. 

Westermann, C., “Der Traum im Alten Testament,” in C. Westermann, ed., Traume 

verstehen Verstehen durch Traume (München: Schnell & Steiner, 1986), pp. 8-23. 

Zeitlen, Solomon, “Dreams and their Interpretation from the Biblical Period to the 

Tanaanite Time: An Historical Study,” JQR 66 (1975-1976), pp. 1-18. 

Ancient 

Books 

Artemidorus, Daldianus, The Interpretation of Dreams: Oneirocritica. Transl. R. White 

(Park Ridge, N.J., 1975). 

Afik, I., Hazal’s Perception of the Dream (Ph.D. Dissertation: Bar-Ilan University, 

1990). 

Flannery-Dailey, Frances, Dreamers, Scribes, and Priests: Jewish Dreams in the 

Hellenistic and Roman Eras Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, 

90; Leiden/Boston: E. J. Brill, 2004). 

110

Gnuse, Robert Karl, Dreams and Dream Interpretation in the Writings of Josephus: A 

Traditio-Historical Analysis (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1996). 

Kistianpoller, Alexander, Monumenta Talmudica. Traum und Taumdeutung (Wien and 

Berlin: Benjamin Harz, 1923) [Reprint: Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche 

Buchgesellschaft, 1972]. 

Noegel, Scott B., Nocturnal Ciphers: The Allusive Language of Dreams in the Ancient 

Near East (American Oriental Series, 89; New Haven, CT.: American Oriental 

Society, 2007). 

Oppenheim, A. L., The Interpretation of Dreams in the Ancient Near East: With a 

Translation of the Assyrian Dream Book (Transactions of the American 

Philosophical Society: Volume 46:3; Philadelphia, PA: American Philosophical 

Society, 1956) [Reprint: Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2008, with Introduction 

by Scott B. Noegel, pp. iii-viii]. 

Walter, Gerry H., Dreams in the Literature of the Ancient Near East and the Babylonian 

Talmud (M.A. Thesis: Hebrew Union College, 1974). 

Wolffsohn, S., Die Oneirologie im Talmud, oder der Traum in der Bibel als Ursache und 

Wirkung nach der Auffassung des Talmuds (Breslau: F. W. Jungfer, 1874). 


Alexander, Philip S., “Bavli Berakhot 55a-57a: the Talmudic Dreambook in Context,” 

JJS 46 (1995), pp. 230-248. 

Arzi, Abraham, “Dreams.In the Talmud,” Encyclopaedia Judaica. Vol. 6 (Jerusalem: 

Keter, 1971), cols. 208-211. 

Arzi, Abraham, “Dreams.In the Talmud,” Encyclopaedia Judaica. Vol. 6 (Jerusalem: 

Keter, 2007), pp. 8-10. 

Begg, Christopher, “Solomon’s Two Dreams According to Josephus,” Antonianum 71 

(1996), pp. 687-704. 

Berchman, Robert M., “Arcana Mundi: Magic and Divination in the ‘de Somniis’ of 

Philo of Alexandria,” SBLSP 26 (1987), pp. 403-428. 

Editorial staff, “hăṭābat ḥălōm,” Encyclopedia Talmudit. Vol. 8 (Jerusalem, 1957-1961), 

pp. 753-758 (in Hebrew). 

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Efthimadis-Keith, Helen, “The Dream of ‘Judith’: A Jungian Perspective,” JNSL 25 

(1999), pp. 153-171. 

Erlich, E. L., “Der Traum im Talmud,” ZNW (1956), pp. 133-145. 

Gnuse, Robert Karl, “The Dream Reports in the Writings of Flavius Josephus,” Revue 

Biblique 96 (1989), pp. 358-390. 

Gnuse, Robert Karl, “The Temple Experience of Jaddus in the ‘Antiquities’ of Josephus: 

a Report on Jewish Dream Incubation,” JQR 83 (1992-1993), pp. 349-368. 

Hanson, John S., “Dreams and Dream Visions in the Graeco-Roman World and Early 

Christianity,” Aufstieg und Niedergang der Romischen Welt. II 23 (1980), pp. 

1395-1427. 

Hasan-Rokem, Galit, “‘A Dream Amounts to the Sixtieth Part of Prophecy’: On 

Interaction Between Textual Establishment and Popular Context in Dream 

Interpretation by Jewish Sages,” in B. Z. Kedar, ed., Studies in the History of 

Popular Culture (Jerusalem: Merkaz Zalman Shazar le-toldot Yisrael, 1996), pp. 

45-54 [Heb.]. 



Kalmin, Richard Lee, “Dreams and Dream Interpreters,” in Richard Kalmin, Sages, 

Stories, Authors, and Editors in Rabbinic Babylonia (Atlanta, GA.: Scholars 

Press, 1994), pp. 61-80. 

Lewy, H., “Zu dem Traumbuche des Artimidoros,” Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 

48 (1893), pp. 398-419. 

Lauer, Ch., “Das wesen des Traumes in der Beurteilung der talmudischen und 

rabbinischen Literatur,” Internationale Zeitschrift für ärtzliche Psychoanalyse 1 

(1913), pp. 459-469. 

Lorand, S., “Dream Interpretation in the Talmud,” in R. L. Woods and H. B. Greenhouse, 

eds., The New World of Dreams (New York: Macmillan, 1974), pp. 150-158. 

Lorand, S., “L’interpetation des reves selon le Talmud,” Revue de l’histoire de al 

medicine hebraique 89 (1970), pp. 69-72. 

Lorand, S., “L’interpetation des reves selon le Talmud,” Revue de l’histoire de al 

medicine hebraique 90 (1971), pp. 101-103. 

Lujiken Gervitz, Marianne, “Abram’s Dream in the Genesis Apocryphon [1Qap Gen]: Its 

Motifs and Their Function,” Maarav 8 (1993), pp. 229-243. 

112

Stemberger, B., “Der Traum in der rabbinischen Literatur,” Kairos n.f. 18 (1976), pp. 1- 

42. 

Stroumsa, Gedaliahu Guy, “Dreams and Visions in Early Christian Discourse,” in 

Shulman, David and Guy G. Stroumsa, eds., Dream Cultures: Explorations in the 


pp. 189-212. 

VanderKam, James C., “Mantic Vision in the Dead Sea Scroll,” Dea Sea Discoveries 4 

(1997), pp. 336-353. 

Middle Ages 

Books 

Almoli, Solomon ben Jacob, Pitron Halomot (Amsterdam: Be-vet Menasheh ben Yisrael, 

1637). 

Almoli, Solomon ben Jacob, Dream Interpretation from Classical Jewish Sources. 

Transl. Y. Elman (Hoboken, N.J.: Ktav, 1998). 

Lamoreaux, John C., Dream Interpretation in the Early Medieval Near East (Ph.D. 

Dissertation: Duke University, 1999). 


Corey, Lawrence, “Kabbalah and the Interpretation of Dreams,” in Spiegelman, J. Marvin 

and Jacobson, Abraham, eds., A Modern Jew in Search of a Soul (Phoenix, AZ.: 

Falcon Press, 1986), pp. 47-84. 

Corey, Lawrence, Die Wahreit der Traume (München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1997), pp. 

85-117. 

Editorial staff, “Dreams. In Medieval Thought,” Encyclopaedia Judaica. Vol. 6 

(Jerusalem: Keter, 1971), cols. 208-211. 

Editorial staff, “Dreams. In Medieval Thought,” Encyclopaedia Judaica. Vol. 6 

(Jerusalem: Keter, 2007), pp. 8-10. 

Grunbaum, Aaron, “Pitron Halomot: History and Sources,” Areshet 2 (1966), pp. 180- 

201. 

Harris, M., “Dreams in Sefer Hasidim,” PAAJR 31 (1963), pp. 51-80. 

113

Idel, Moshe, “Astral Dreams in Judaism, Twelfth to Fourteenth Centuries,” in David 

Shulman and Guy G. Stroumsa, eds., Dream Cultures: Explorations in the 


pp. 235-251. 

Idel, Moshe, “Nachtliche Kabbalisten,” in Gaetano Benedetti and Erik Hornung, eds., Die 

Wahreit der Traume (München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1997), pp. 85-117. 

Kuyt, Annelies, “With One Foot in the Renaissance: Shlomoh Almoli and his Dream 

Interpretation,” JSQ 6 (1999), pp. 205-217. 

Kreisel, H., “Vertical Dreams and Prophecy in the Philosophy of Gersonides,” Da’at 22 

(1989), pp. 73-84. 




Oevermann, Susanne, “Der Traum im Sefer Hasidim,” Henoch 12 (1990), pp. 19-51. 

Steinschneider, Moritz, “Da Traumbuch Daniels und die oneirokritische Literatur des 

Mittelalters,” Serapeum 24 (1863), pp. 193-216. 

Modern 

Books 

Freud, Sigmund, The Interpretation of Dreams. Transl. A. Brill (London: George Allen 

and Unwin Ltd., 1927). 

Freud, Sigmund, The Interpretation of Dreams. Transl. J. Strachey (New York: Avon, 

1965). 

Frieden, Ken, Freud’s Dream of Interpretation (Albany, N.Y.: State University of New 

York Press, 1990). 


Bilu, Yoram, “Sigmund Freud and Rabbi Yehudah: On Jewish Mystical Tradition of 

‘Psychoanalytic’ Dream Interpretation,” Journal of Psychological Anthropology 2 

(1979), pp. 443-463. 

114

Bilu, Yoram, “Encountering the Sacred: Saint Veneration and Visitational Dreams 

Among Moroccan Jews in Israel,” in Idinopulos, Thomas A. Edward A. Yonan, 

eds., The Sacred and its Scholars: Comparative Methodologies for the Study of 

Primary Religious Data (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1996), pp. 89-103. 

Bilu, Yoram, “In Search of the ‘Saddiq’: Visitational Dreams Among Moroccan Jews in 

Israel,” Psychiatry 48 (1985), pp. 83-92. 

Bilu, Yoram, “The Other as a Nightmare: the Israeli-Arab Encounter as Reflected in 

Children’s Dreams in Israel and the West Bank,” Political Psychology 10 

(1989), pp. 265-389. 

Bilu, Yoram, “The Role of Charasmatic Dreams in the Creation of Sacred Sites in 

Present-Day Israel,” in Benjamin Z. Kedar and R. J. Zwi Werblowsky, eds., 

Sacred Space--Shrine, City, Land: Proceeding of the International Conference in 

Memory of Joshua Prawer (London: Macmillan, 1998), pp. 295-315. 

Horowitz, Sarette A., “The Significance of Dreams: The Interaction of Judaism and 

Gestalt in Therapy,” JPJ 19 (1995), pp. 315-325. 

Huttler, Miriam, “Jewish Origins of Freuds Interpretations of Dreams,” Journal of 

Psychology and Judaism 23 (1999), pp. 5-48. 

Levine, Julia B., “The Role of Culture in the Representation of Conflict in Dreams: a 

Comparison of Bedouin, Irish, and Israeli Culture,” Journal of Cross-Cultural 

Psychology 22 (1991), pp. 472-490. 

Lewin, Isaac, “The Personality of R. Nahman of Bratslav: Comparing Dream Content 

Analysis and Biography,” Journal of Psychology and Judaism 22 (1998), pp. 33- 

50. 

Ratzhabi, J. A., “A Yemenite Book of Dreams,” Edoth 2 (1946-1947), pp. 121-125. 

Rozan, Minna, “The Dark Mirror of the Soul: Dreams of a Jewish Physician in Jerusalem 

at the end of the 17 th Century,” REJ 151 (1992), pp. 5-42. 

Steinberg, Avraham, “Dreams,” Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society 23 

(1992), pp. 101-121. 

Velikovsky, I., “Psychoanalytische Ahnungen in der Traumdeutungkunst der alten 

Hebräer nach dem Traktat Brachoth,” Psychoanalystiche Bewegung 5 (1933), pp. 

66-69. 

Wax, Murray, “Joseph, Freud, and the Judaic Tradition,” JPJ 22 (1998), pp. 21-32. 

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Demons, Demonology, and Exorcism 

General 

Books 


Chajes, J. H., Demonic Possesion and Exorcism in Early Modern Jewish Culture (Ph.D. 

Dissertation: Yale University, 1998). 

Eshel, Esther, ha-Emunah be-Shedi, be-Erets-Yisra’el bi-yeme ha-Bayit ha-Sheni 

[Demonology in Palestine during the Second Temple Period] (Ph.D. Dissertation: 

Hebrew University, 1999). 

Klar, B., ed., Megilat Ahimaaz, (Yerushalayim: Sifre Tarshish, 1974). 

Kohut, A., Uber die Judische Angelologie und Daemonologie in ihren Abhangigkeit von 

Parsimus (Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1866). 

McCasland, S. V., By the Finger of God: Demon Possession and Exorcism in Early 

Christianity in Light of Modern Views of Mental Illness (New York: MacMillan, 

1951). 

Neugroschul, Joachim, The Great Works of Jewish Fantasy and Occult (Woodstock, NY: 

The Overlook Press, 1976). 

Sherwin, Byron L., Exorcism in Judaism [unpublished manuscript]. 

Wohlstein, Joseph, Damonenbeschworungen aus nachtalmudischer Zeit (Berlin: Emil 

Felber, 1894). 


Ahn, Gregor, “Dualism im Kontext von Gegenweltvorstellungen: Die rituelle Abwehr der 

Damonen im altiranischen Zoroastrismus,” in Armin Lange, Hermann 

Lichenberger, and K. F. Diethard Römheld, eds., Die Dämonen – Demons: Die 

Dämonologie der israelitisch-jüdischen und frühschristlichen Literatur im 

Kontext ihrer Umwelt (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2003), pp. 122-134. 

Alexander, Philip S., “The Demonoloy of the Dead Sea Scrolls,” in Peter W. Flint and 

James C. VanderKam, eds., The Dead Sea Scrolls after Fifty Year: a 

Comprehensive Assessment. Vols. 1-2 (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998-1999), pp. 331- 

353. 

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Alexander, Tamar, “Theme and Genre: Relationships between man and she-demon in 

Jewish Follore,” Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Review 14 (1992), pp. 56-61. 

Bacher, W., “La legende de L’Exorcism D’un Demon par Simon b. Yohai,” REJ 35 

(1897), pp. 285-287. 

Bar-Ilan, Meir, “Exorcism by the Rabbis: Talmudic Sages and Magic,” Daàt 34 (1995), 

pp. 17-31 [Heb.]. 

Bazak, B., “Rabbi Kook as an Exorcist,” Shana be Shana (1976), pp. 387-391 [Heb.]. 

Billerbeck, P., “Zur Altjudischen Damonologie,” in H. L. Strack and P. Billerbeck, 

Kommentar Neuen Testament aus Talmud und Midrash (München: Beck, 1928), 

pp. 501-535. 

Bilu, Yoram, “The Moroccan Demon in Israel,” Ethos 8 (1980), pp. 24-39. 

Bonner, C., “The Technique of Exorcism,” HTR 36 (1943), pp. 39-49. 

Canaan, T., “Haunted Spirits and Water Demons in Palestine,” The Journal of the 

Palestine Oriental Society 1 (1920-1921), pp. 153-170. 

Chajes, J. H., “Judgements Sweetened: Possesion and Exorcism in Early Modern Jewish 

Culture,” Journal of Early Modern History 1 (1997), pp. 124-169. 

Chajes, J. H., “Jewish Exorcism: Early Modern Traditions and Transformations,” in L. B. 

Fine, ed., Judaism in Practice: from the Middle Ages Through the Early Modern 

Period (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998), pp. 386-398. 

Dan, Joseph, “Demons of the Cup and Demons of the Thumb,” Tarbiz 32 (1962), pp. 

359-369 [= Joseph Dan, ed., Ashkenazi-Hasidic Literature (Ramat Gan, Israel, 

1975), pp. 34-43] . 

Dan, Joseph, “Sipporim Demonologiyyim me-kitve R. Yehuda Hasid,” Tarbiz 30 (1961), 

pp. 288ff. 

Dan, Joseph, “Demonology in Menashe ben Israel’s ‘Nishmat Hayyim’,” in I. Twersky 

and B. Septimus, eds., Jewish Thought in the 17 th Century (Cambridge: Harvard 


Delcor, Mathias, “Des inscriptions de Deir Alla aux traditions bibliques a propos des 

‘shdyn’, des ‘shedim’ et de ‘shadday’,” in Manfred Gorg, ed., Die Vater Israels 

(Stuttgart: Verlag Katholosches Biblewerk, 1989), pp. 33-40. 

Dercharnex, Baudouin, “Apparitions et miracles des anges et demons chez Philon 

d’Alexandrie et Plutarque,” in Alain Dierkens, ed., Apparitions et Miracles 

(Bruxelles: Editions de l’Universite de Bruxelles, 1991), pp. 61-68. 

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Dietrich, Manfried, “Die ugaritische El-Damonologie: Untersuchungen zu den 

Wortpaaren ‘tkm’--’il siy’ un ‘aklm’--’qqm’,” in Yitzhak Avishur and Robert 

Deutsch, eds., Michael: Historical, Epigraphical and Biblical Studies in Honor of 

Prof. Michael Heltzer (Tel Aviv/Jaffa: Archaeological Center Publications, 

1999), pp. 127-144. 

Douglas, Mary, “Demonology in William Roberston Smith’s Theory of Religious 

Belief,” in William Johnstone, ed., William Robertson Smith: Essays in 

Reassessment (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995), pp. 274-292. 

Duling, Dennis C., “The Elazar Miracle and Solomon’s Magical Wisdom in Flavius 

Josephus’ Antiquitatis Judaicae 8:42-49,” HTR 78 (1985), pp. 1-25. 

Duling, Dennis, “Solomon, Exorcism, and the Son of David,” HTR 68 (1975), pp. 235- 

252. 

Editorial staff, “Asmodeus,” Encyclopaedia Judaica. Vol. 3 (Jerusalem: Keter, 1971), 

cols. 754-755. 

Editorial staff, “Asmodeus,” Encyclopaedia Judaica. Vol. 2 (Jerusalem: Keter, 2007), pp. 

592-593. 


Job,” HUCA 56 (1985), pp. 1-19. 

Ginzberg, L., “Asmodeus,” Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 2 (New York: Funk & Wagnells, 

1901-1905), pp. 217-220. 

Giverson, S., “Solomon und die Demons,” in M. Krause, ed., Essays on the Nag 

Hammadi Texts in Honor of Alexander Bohlig (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1972), pp. 16- 

21. 

Goodblatt, Chanita, “Women, Demons, and the Rabbi’s Son: Narratology and ‘A Story 

from Worms’,” Exemplaria 12 (2000), pp. 231-253. 

Gordon, Cyrus H., “Leviathan: A Symbol of Evil,” A. Altmann, ed., Biblical Motifs 

(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1966), pp. 1-9. 

Gorg, Manfred, “‘Damonen’ statt in ‘Eulen’ in Jes 13:21,” Biblische Notizen 62 (1992), 

pp. 16-17. 

Heller, B., “Autre note sur le nom divin de vingt-deux lettres et sur le demon de l’oubli,” 

REJ 57 (1909), pp. 105-108 

Hermmann, L., “Les Premiers exorcismes juifs et Judeo-Cretiens,” Revue de L’universite 

de Bruxelles 7 (1954-5), pp. 305-308. 

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Israel, Felice, “Un supposto aramaismo ed il demone Deber,” in Riccardo Contino, et al., 

eds., Semtica: serta philoloica Constantino Tsereteli dicata (Torino: Silvio 

Zamorani Editore, 1993), pp. 127-129. 

Jackson, Howard M., “Echoes and Demons in the Pseudo-Philonic ‘Liber Antiquitatum 

Biblicarum’,” JSJ 27 (1996), pp. 1-20. 

Jansson, Eva-Maria, “Att Fordiva en Demon,” Mamrelund 3 (1992), pp. 21-40. 

Kirschschlager, W., “Exorcisms in Qumran,” Kairos 18 (1976), pp. 135-153. 

Knox, W. G., “Jewish Liturgical Exorcism,” HTR 31 (1938), pp. 191-203. 

Koch, Klaus, “Monotheismus und Angelologie,” in W. Dietrich and M. A. Klopfenstein 

eds., Ein Gott Allein? JHWH--Verehrung und Biblischer Monotheismus im 

Kontext der Israelitischen und altorientalischen Religionsgeschichte (Freiburg: 

Universitatsverlag; Göttingen: Vanderhoeck & Ruprecht, 1994), pp. 565-581. 

Kottek, Samuel S., “Demons and Diseases in Bible and Talmud,” in Illness and Healing 

in Ancient Times (Haifa: Reuben and Edith Hecht Museum, 1996), pp. 32- 38. 

Kristensson, Jutta, “‘Embracing Lucifer’” Paradoxical Female Identity in German-Jewish 

Lyric Poetry,” in Ulf Haxen, Hanne Trautner-Kromann and Karen Lisa 

Goldschmidt Salamon, eds., Jewish Studies in a New Europe: Proceedings of the 

Fifth World Congress of Jewish Studies in Copenhagen 1994 (Copenhagen: 

C. A. Reitzel, 1998), pp. 452-461. 

Landmann, S., “Exorzianen in der judischen tradition,” Zeitschrift für Religions und 

Geistesgeschichte 28 (1978), pp. 357-366. 

Lewy, Heinrich, “Zum Damonenglauben,” AR 28 (1930), pp. 241-252. 

Lieber, Elinor, “Leprosy in the Lands of the Bible, and the Demons Bes and Pazuzu. Part 

1: Ancient Egypt and the Bes-Image,” Koroth 10 (1993-1994), pp. 23-43. 

Lyons, William John, “The Demonic Virus and Qumran Studies: Some Preventative 

Measures,” Dea Sea Discoveries 5 (1998), pp. 16-32. 

Maier, J., “Geister (Damonen),” RAC IX (1976), cols. 579-585, 626-639, 668-688. 

Marmorstein, A., “Minhagim Qedumim be Eretz Israel,” Maasef Zion 2 (1927), pp. 17- 

27. 

Moore, Michael S., “Job’s Text of Terror,” CBQ 55 (1993), pp. 662-675. 

Naveh, Joseph, “A Good Subduing, There is None Like it,” Tarbiz 54 (1985), pp. 367- 

382. 

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Nysenholc, Judith, “A Demon’s Poetic and Sacreligious Philosophy: What is Lost in the 

Translation of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s ‘Der Shpigi’,” Yiddish 9 (1994), pp. 30-43. 

Onuki, Takashi, “Tollwut in Q? Ein versuch uber Mt 12:45-50/Lk 11:24-26,” New 

Testament Studies 46 (2000), pp. 358-374. 

Patai, Raphael, “Exorcism and Xenoglassia among the Safed Kabbalists,” in R. Patai, On 

Jewish Folklore (Detroit. MI.: Wayne State University Press, 1983), pp. 314-325. 

Puech, E., “11QpsAp “Un Ritual D’exorcismes, Essai de Reconstruction,” RQ 14 (1990), 

pp. 377-408. 

Rainey, Anson F., “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Deities and 

Demons,” Israel Oriental Studies 18 (1998), pp. 455-459. 

Rapaport, S. J. L., “Ashmedai,” in Èrekh Millim (Warsaw, 1914) [Reprint: Jersualem: 

Makor, 1969-1970, II, pp. 106-122]. 

Ratzbaby, Yehuda, “The Sorcery Motif in Bridegroom Songs,” Tarbiz 61 (1991-1992), 

pp. 117-126. 

Schiff, Ellen, “Demythologizing the Demon: Updating the Stock Type,” WCJS 9 (1986), 

pp. 213-218. 

Schlolem, Gershom, “Demons, Demonology,” Encyclopaedia Judaica. Vol. 5 

(Jerusalem: Keter, 1971), pp. 1521-1533. 

Scholem, Gershom, “Peraqim Hadashim me-Inyene Ashmedai ve-Lillit,” Tarbiz 19 (1947 

1948), pp. 16-75. 

Scholem, Gershom, “Somes Sources of Jewish-Arabic Demonology,” JJS 16 (1965), pp. 

1-13. 

Scholem, Gershom, “Bilar Melech HaShedim,” Madae` HaYahadut 1 (1926), pp. 112- 

127. 

Schorr, O. H., “Malachim, Shedim, Umazzikin,” HeHeluz 7 (1865), pp. 16-22. 

Schorr, O. H., “Malachim, Shedim, Umazzikin,” HeHeluz 8 (1869), pp. 3-16. 

Scurlock, JoAnn, “Ghosts in the Ancient Near East: Weak or Powerful,” HUCA 68 

(1997), pp. 77-96. 

Segalla, Giuseppe, “Dall’”Eschaton” all’”Arche”: scelta escatologica e origini dell’uomo 

nella tradizione evangelica,” Ricerche Storica Bibliche 6 (1994), pp. 201-221. 

Shaked, Shaul, “Badana, King of the Demons, and other Iranian term in Babylonian 

Aramaic Magic,” Acta Iranica 25 (1985), pp. 511-525. 

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Stevens, David E., “Daniel 10 and the Notion of Terrestrial Spirits,” Biblioteca Sacra 628 

(2000), pp. 410-431. 

Thompson, Steven, “The End of Satan,” Andrews University Seminary Studies 37 (1999), 

pp. 257-268. 

Torczyner, H., “A Hebrew Incantation Against Night-Demons from Biblical Times,” 

JNES 6 (1947), pp. 21-27. 

Weinstock, I., “Demut Abu-Aaron ha Babli be Megilat Ahimaaz,” Shana be-Shana 

(1964), pp. 2-25. 

Dybbuk 

Books 

Ansky, S., The Dybbuk. Transl. H. Alsberg and W. Katzin (New York: Liverright, 1926). 

Kohen, Zamir, be-Ìkvot ha-dibuk (Jerusalem, Israel: Mekhon ‘Or ve-àrakhim’, 1999). 

Nigal, G., Sipurei ‘Dybbuk’ be Sifrut Israel (Jerusalem: Ruben Mass, 1994). 

Ruderman, Pinhas, Ha-Dibbuk (Warsaw, 1877). 

Winkler, G., Dybbuk: A Glimpse of the Supernatural in Jewish Tradition (New York: 

Judaica Press, 1997). 

Articles in Perdiodicals and Chapters in Books 

Bilu, Yoram, “Dybbuk and Maggid: Two Cultural Patterns of Altered Conscionsneess in 

Judaism,” AJS Review 21 (1996), pp. 341-366. 

Bilu, Yoram, “The Taming of the Deviants and Beyond: An Analysis of Dibbuk 

Possession and Exorcism in Judaism,” in L. B. Boyer and S. A. Grolnick, eds., 

The Psychoanalytic Study of Society: Essays in Honor of Paul Parin (Hillsdale, 

N.J.: Analytic Press, 1989), pp. 1-32. 

Galford, Ellen, “The Duke and the Dybuk,” Jewish Currents 49 (1995), pp. 12-13, 33. 

Gotholz, A. J., “HaDibbbuk,” Yeda-Am 8 (1963), pp. 59-62 [Heb.]. 

Hoberman, J., “Repossesing the Dybbuk,” Pakn Treger 28 (1998), pp. 20-35. 

Levy, Shimon, “The Dybbuk Revisited: Images of Religious Jews on the Israeli Stage,” 

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Israel Affairs 4 (1998), pp. 219-229. 

Lewi, Henri, “Demons et Dibbouks,” Yod 31-31 (1992), pp. 53-66. 

Lieberman, Leo, “The Concept of the ‘dybukk’ in Hebrew Literature and Thought,” in E. 

Nauman, ed., Exorcism Through the Ages (Secaucus, N.J.: Citadel Press, 1974), 

pp. 99-104. 

Nigal, Gedalyah, “Ha-Dibbuk ha-Mystica ha-Yahadut,” Daàt 4 (1981), pp. 75-100 

[Heb.]. 

Nigal, Gedalya, “Al Ruhot Dibbuk ba-Sifrut Yisrael,” Bar-Ilan Annual 24-25 (1989), 

pp. 51-60. 

Schifrin, Daniel R., “A Play for all Seasons,” Haddasah 78 (1997), pp. 32-35. 

Schnappes, Morris V., “Editor’s Diary,” Jewish Currents 52 (1998), pp. 18-21. 

Scholem, Gershom, “Dibbuk,” Encyclopaedia Judiaca. Vol. 6 (Jerusalem: Keter, 1971), 

pp. 6-21. 

Yerushalmi, Dorit, “The Habinah ‘Dybbuk’: A Study in the Role of Excorcism,” Assaph 

14 (1998), pp. 193-214. 

Lilith 

Books 

Black Koltuv, Barbara, The Book of Lilith (York Beach, MA.: Nicolas Hays, Inc., 1986). 

Hadas, Pamela, The Passion of Lilith (St. Louis. MO.: The Cauldron Press, 1976). 

Hurwirtz, H., Lilith, die erste Eva (Zürich: Daimon Verlag, 1980). 

Patai, Raphael, The Hebrew Goddess (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1990), pp. 

221-254. 

Schwartz, Howard, Lilith’s Cave (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1988). 

Zoller, I., Lilith (Roma: Società [romana di antropologia], 1926). 


Adler, Joseph, “Lilith,” Midstream 45 (1999), pp. 4-7. 

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Ballard, H. Wayne, Jr., “Is Lilith fair? An Observation from Isaiah 34:14,” Review and 

Expositor 95 (1998), pp. 583-588. 

Bitton, Michele, “Lilith ou la premiere Eve: le mythe juif de la feminite demoniaque,” 

EHEJ (1993), pp. 19-32. 

Bormanis, John, “Lilith on the Liffey: Gender, Rebellion, and Anticolonialism in 

‘Finnegans Wake’,” James Joyce Quarterly 34 (1997), pp. 489-503. 

Cassuto, U., “Un antico scongiuro ebraico contro Lilit,” Rivista degli Studi Orientali 15 

(1934), pp. 259-261. 

Dame, Enid, “Sister in the Shadows: Lilith’s role in the Jewish Family Myth,” in Enid 

Dame, et al., eds., Which Lilith? Feminist Writers Re-Create the World’s First 

Women (Northvale, N.J.: J. Aaronson, 1998), pp. 305-317. 

Dufetel, Jacques, “Bible et mythe symboliste: Lilith de Remy de Gourmet,” in Pierre 

Marie Beaude, ed., Le Bible en Litterature: actes du colloque international de 

Metz (Paris: Editions du Cerf; Metz: Universite de Metz, 1997), pp. 29-40. 

Fauth, Wolfgang,” Lilits und Astarten in aramaischen, mandaischen und syrischen 

Zaubertexten,” Die Welt des Orient 17 (1987), pp. 66-94. 

Frohlich, Ida, “Two Aprotropaic Texts from the Jewish Museum in Budapest,” in A. 

Fodor and E. Shivtiel, eds., Proceedings of the Colloquium on Popular Customs 

and the Monotheistic Religions in the Middle East and North Africa (Budapest: 

Eotvos Lorand Universoty, Csoma de Koros Society, 1994), pp. 295-303. 

Gaster, Moses, “Beitrage zur vergleichenden Sagen- und Marchenkunde: X. Lilith und 

drei Engel,” MGWJ 29 (1880), pp. 553-565. 

Gaster, Theodor H., “A Cannanite Magical Text,” Or 11 (1942), pp. 45-55. 

Gordon, Cyrus H., “A World of Demons and Liliths,” in C. Gordon, Adventures in the 

Nearest East (London: Phoenix House Ltd., 1957) [Reprint of chapt. 10 of The 

Living Past (New York: John Day, 1941)]. 

Hellig, Jocelyn Louise, “Lilith as focus of Judaism’s Gender Construction,” Dialogue 

and Alliance 12 (1998), pp. 35-49. 

Hoffeld, Jeffrey M., “Adam’s Two Wives,” MMAB June (1968), pp. 430-440. 

Levi, Israel, “Lilit et Lilin,” REJ 68 (1914), pp. 15-21. 

Lind, Jakov, “Lilith and Eve,” in Howard Schwartz, ed., Imperial Messages (New York: 

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Montgomery, James, “The Lilith Legend,” Museum Journal 4 (1913), pp. 62-65. 

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Prinz, Deborah R., “Lilith, Lust, and Lore,” CCAR Journal (1997), pp. 62-69. 

Stora, Jean Benjamin, “De Lilith a Eve: destin de la feminite juive au Maghreb,” 

Nouvelle Revue d’Ethnopsyhciatrie 31 (1996), pp. 53-90. 

Tanghe, Vincent, “Lilit in Edom (Jes 34:5-15),” ETL 69 (1993), pp. 125-133. 

Teugels, Lieve, “The Creation of Human in Rabbinic Interpretation,” in Gerard P. 

Luttikhuizen, ed., The Creation of Man and Women: Interpretations of the 

Biblical Narratives in Jewish and Christian Traditions (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2000), 

pp. 107-127. 

Vogelsang, E. W., “The Confrontation between Lilith and Adam: the Fifth Round,” 

Journal of Analytical Psychology 30 (1985), pp. 149-163. 

Wnekart, Henny, “Feminist Revaluation of the mythical triad of two women and one man 

- Lilith, Adam, Eve,” in Enid Dame, et al., eds., Which Lilith? Feminist Writers 

Re-Create the World’s First Women (Northvale, N.J.: J. Aaronson, 1998), pp. 

105-111. 

Zoller, I., “Lilith,” Philologische Schriften 3 (1929), pp. 121-142 

Law, Ritual, and Folklore 

Books 

Gaster, Theodor H., The Holy and the Profane: Evolution of Jewish Folkways (New 

York: William Sloan, 1955). 

Hanauer, E., Folklore of the Holy Land (Folcroft, PA: Folcroft Library Editions, 1977). 

Loewe, Heinrich, Judischer Feuersegen (Berlin: S. Scholem, 1930). 

Reik, Theodor, Pagan Rites in Judaism: From Sex Initiation, Magic, Mooncult, 

Tattooing, Mutilation, and other Primitive Rituals to Family Loyalty and 

Solidarity (New York: Grammercy Pub. Co., 1964). 

Rosenberg, Jerome, ed., A Big Jewish Book (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1977). 

Zimmels, H. J., Magicians, Theologians, and Doctors: Studies in Folk Medicine and 

Folklore as Reflected in the Rabbinical Responsa (Northvale, N.J.: J. Aronson, 

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Apo, Satu, “Questions Arising in the Comparative Study of Magic Tales,” JFR 23 (1986), 

pp. 177-186. 

Aptowitzer, V., “Ler Noms de Dieu et des Anges dans la Mezouza,” REJ 60 (1910), pp. 

39-52; 65 (1913), pp. 54-60. 

Aptowitzer, V., “Tikkun Mezuzah lefi Ba’ale HaSod,” Ha Zofeh 11 (1912), pp. 100-102 

Basser, Herbert, “Superstitious Interpretations of Jewish Laws,” JSJ 8 (1977), pp. 127- 

128. 

Ben-Amos, D., “Jewish Folklore Studies,” Modern Judaism 11 (1991), pp. 17-66. 

Bender, A. P., “Beliefs, Rites, and Customs of the Jews Connected with Death, Burial, 

and Mourning,” JQR (O.S.) 6 (1864), pp. 317-347, 664-671. 

Bender, A. P., “Beliefs, Rites, and Customs of the Jews Connected with Death, Burial, 

and Mourning,” JQR (O.S.) 7 (1895), pp. 101-118, 259-269. 

Bleich, Moshe A., “Magic Shows,” JHCS 33 (1997), pp. 17-36. 

Caspi, Mishael M., and Nahum Tchernowitz, “Fortune Tellers in Northeast Yemen and in 

Israel,” Hebrew Annual Review 14 (1992), pp. 21-42. 

Gilead, Isaac, “Religio-Magic Behavior in the Chalcolithic Period of Palestine,” in E. D. 

Oren and S. Ahituv, eds., Aharon Kempinski Memorial Volume: Studies in 

Archaeology and Related Disciplines (Beer-Sheva, 15; Beersheva: Ben-Gurion 

University of the Negev Press, 2002), pp. 103-128. 

Heller, B., “Le Nom divin de vingt-deux lettres dans la priere qui suit la benediction 

sacerdotale,” REJ 55 (1907), pp. 60-71. 

Hurowitz, Victor Avigdor, “‘Blessing the Sacrifice’ (I Samuel 9:13): An Overlooked 

Allusion to Ancient Israelite Extispicy (?),” in E. D. Oren and S. Ahituv, eds., 

Aharon Kempinski Memorial Volume: Studies in Archaeology and Related 

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Kohler, K., “Akiba be Joseph, Alphabet of,” Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 (New York: 

Funk & Wagnells, 1901-1905), pp. 310-311. 

Lauterbach, Jacob Z., “The Naming of Children in Jewish Folklore, Ritual, and Practice,” 

CCAR 42 (1932), pp. 316-360. 

Lauterbach, Jacob Z., “Tashlik: A Study in Jewish Ceremonies,” HUCA 11 (1936), 

pp. 207-340. 

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Lauterbach, Jacob Z., “The Belief in the Power of the Word,” HUCA 14 (1939), pp. 287- 

302. 

Lauterbach, Jacob Z., “The Ceremony of Breaking a Glass at Weddings,” in J. 

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Levi, Israel, “Les Jardins d’Adonis, les Kapparot et Rosch Haschana,” REJ 61 (1911), 

pp. 206-212. 

Levine, Baruch, “Kippurim,” EI 9 (1969), pp. 88-95, 136. 

Levy, E., “Hokuspokus,” REJ 82 (1926), pp. 401-410. 

Oegema, Gerbern S., “Denn Konig David hatte einen Schild…das hexagramm als 

magisches schutzsymbol und als ‘stein der weisen’,” in Wolf Stegemann and 

Johanna Eichmann, eds., Der Davidstern (Dorsten: Dokumentationszentrum für 

Jüdische Geschichte und Religion 1991), pp. 22-25. 

Rist, M., “The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: A Liturgical and Magical Formula,” 

JBL 57 (1938), pp. 289-303. 

Schafer, Peter, “Jewish Liturgy and Magic,” in H. Cancik, et al., eds., Geschichte 

Tradition—Reflexion: Festschrift für Martin Hengel zu siebzigsten Geburstag. 

Vol. 1 (Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 1996), pp. 541-556. 

Sisken, E. E., “Transcendental and Folk Aspects of Judaism,” Judaism 36 (1987), pp. 

283-295. 

Trachtenberg, Joshua, “Folk Elements in Judaism,” Journal of Religion 22 (1942), 

pp. 173-186. 

Yoffie, Leah Rachel, “Popular Beliefs and Customs among the Yiddish-Speaking Jews of 

St. Louis, Mo.,” Journal of American Folk-Lore 38 (1927), pp. 375-399. 

Evil Eye 

General 

Dundes, A., The Evil Eye: A Folklore Casebook (New York: Garland, 1981). 

Maloney, Clarence, ed., The Evil Eye (New York: Columbia University Press, 1976). 

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Books 

Nador, Gyorgy, An Incantation Against the Evil Eye (Northwood: Bina Verlag, 1975). 

Rosenzweig, A., Daus Auge in Bibel und Talmud (Berlin: Mayer & Muller, 1892). 

Ulmer, Rivka, The Evil Eye in the Bible and Rabbinic Literature (Hoboken, N.J.: Ktav, 

1994). 


Brav, A., “The Evil Eye Among the Hebrews,” Opthalmalogy 5 (1908), pp. 427-435 

[= A. Dundes, ed., The Evil Eye: a Folklore Casebook (New York: Garland, 

1981), pp. 44-54]. 

Dundes, A., “Proverbs (23:1-8) and the Evil Eye in ‘The Wisdom of Sirach’,” in A. 

Dundes, ed., The Evil Eye: a Folklore Casebook (New York: Garland, 1981), pp. 

41-43. 

Edwards, D., “The ‘Evil Eye’ and Middle Eastern Culture,” Folklore Annual 3 (1971), 

pp. 33-40. 

Elliot, John H., “The Evil Eye and the Sermon on the Mount: Contours of a Pervasive 

Belief in Social Scientific Perspective,” Biblical Interpretation 2 (1994), pp. 51- 

84. 

Elliot, John H., “The Evil Eye in the First Testament: the Ecology and Culture of a 

Peruasive Belief,” in David Jobling, et al., eds., The Bible and the Politics of 

Exegesis (Cleveland, OH.: Pilgrim Press, 1991), pp. 147-159. 

Friendenwald, H., “The Evil Eye,” Medical Leaves (1939), pp. 44-48. 

Grunbaum, M., “Beitrage zur vergleichenden Mythologie aus der Hagada,” Zeitschrift 

der Morgenlandischen Gesellschaft 31 (1877), pp. 183-359, esp. 258-266. 

Hirsch, R. Emil G., “The Evil Eye,” The Folk-Lorist 1 (1982), pp. 69-74. 

Kern-Ulmer, Brigitte, “The Power of the Evil Eye and the Good Eye in Midrashic 

Literature,” Judaism 40 (1991), pp. 344-353. 

Levy Zumwalt, Rosemary, “‘Let it go to the garlic!’ Evil eye and the Fertility of Women 

among Sephardim,” Western Folklore 55 (1996), pp. 261-280. 

Lilienthal, R., “Ayin hara (eyin hore),” Yiddische Filologye 1 (1924), pp. 245-271. 

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Lowinger, Adolf, “Der Bose Blick,” Menorah 4 (1926), pp. 551-569. 

Moss, Leonard W., and Stephen C. Cappannari, “Mal’occhio, Ayin ha ra, Oculus 

Fascinus, Judenblick: The Evil Eye Hovers Above,” in C. Maloney, ed., The Evil 

Eye (New York: Columbia University Press, 1976), pp. 1-15. 

Noy, Dov, “Evil Eye,” Ecyclopedia Judaica. Vol. 5 (Jerusalem: Keter, 1973), pp. 997- 

1000. 

Ross, Barry, “Notes on Some Jewish Amulets, ‘ayin ha-ra’ and the Priestly Blessing,” 

JAGNES 2 (1991), pp. 34-40. 

Shrut, S. D., “Coping with the Evil Eye: Or, Early Rabbinical Attempts at 

Psychotherapy,” American Imago 17 (1960), pp. 201-213. 

Sinai, Turan (Tamas), “‘Wherever the Sages Set Their Eyes, There is Either Death or 

Poverty’- On the History, Terminology and Imagery of the Talmudic Traditions 

about the Devastating Gaze of the Sages,” Sidra 23 (2008), pp. 137-205 [Heb. 

with English summary, pp. viii-ix]. 

Stillman, Yedida K., “The Evil Eye in Morocco,” in D. Noy and I. Ben-Ami, eds., 

Folklore Research Studies I (Jerusalem, 1970), pp. 81-94. 

Thomson, Marie Louise, “The Evil Eye in Mesopotamia,” JNES 51 (1992), pp. 19-32. 

Book Reviews 

Bar-Ilan, Meir, “Review of M. Swartz, Scholastic Magic,” Kabbala 4 (1999), pp. 385- 

397. 

Bar-Ilan, Meir, “Review of Y. Harari, Harba de-Moshe,” Daàt 43 (1999), pp. 125-140. 

Betz, Hans Dieter, “Magic and Halakha: On the Relationship Between Jewish Magic in 

the Period of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages [= Review of G. Veltri, 

Magie und Halakha],” Journal of Religion 78 (1998), pp. 655-656. 

Betz, Hans Dieter, “Review of Scott B. Noegel, et al., eds., Prayer, Magic, and the Stars 

in the Ancient and Late Antique World,” The Journal of Religion 82 (2005), pp. 

347-350. 

Bilbija, Jovan, “Review of Scott B. Noegel, Nocturnal Ciphers: The Allussive 

Language of Dreams in the Ancient Near East,” Zeitschrift für Assyriologie 98 

(2008), pp. 138-142. 

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Chajes, J. H., “Review of Gedalyah Nigal, Sippure Dybbuk be-Sifrut Yisra’el,” Kabbalah 

1 (1996), pp. 288-293. 

Faur, J., “Review of M. Smith, Jesus the Magician,” Midstream 36 (1980), pp. 54-57. 

Frankfurter, D., “Review of M. Swartz, Scholastic Magic: Ritual and Revelation in Early 

Jewish Mysticism,” JBL 18 (1999), pp. 142-144. 

Frankfurter, D., “Review of Scott B. Noegel, et al., eds., Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in 

the Ancient and Late Antique World,” Bryn Mawr Classical Review 5/32 (2005). 

Geller, M. J., “Magic and Halakha: The Beginnings of an Empirical Concept of Science 

in Late-Antique and Early Medieval Judaism [= Review of G. Veltri, Magie und 

Halakha],” BSOAR 61 (1998), p. 534. 

Gordon, Cyrus H., “Review of J. Naveh and S. Shaked, Amulets and Magic Bowls: 

Aramaic Incantations of Late Antiquity,” BSOAR 50 (1987), p. 124. 

Gordon, Cyrus H., “Review of J. Naveh and S. Shaked, Amulets and Magic Bowls: 

Aramaic Incantations of Late Antiquity,” JAOS 107 (1987), p. 124. 

Geller, Markham J., “Review of Pablo Herrero, La therapeutique mesopotamienne,” 

BiOr 43 (1986), pp. 738-744. 

Gnuse, Robert Karl, “Review of Scott B. Noegel, Nocturnal Ciphers: The Allussive 

Language of Dreams in the Ancient Near East,” Review of Biblical Literature 10 

(2007), 1-3. 

Halperin, David J., “Review of M. Swartz, Scholastic Magic: Ritual and Revelation in 

Early Jewish Mysticism,” JAOS 119 (1999), 148-149. 

Ilan, T., “Review of G. Veltri, Magie und Halakha,” Scripta Classica Israelica 17 

(1998), pp. 287-262. 

Kelly, Nicole, “Review of Scott B. Noegel, et al., eds., Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in 

the Ancient and Late Antique World,” Church History 74 (2005), p. 146. 

Kuyt, A., “Review of G. Veltri, Magie und Halakha,” Frankfurter Judaistische Beitrage 

25 (1998), pp. 169-174. 

Lis, H., “Review of G. Veltri, Magie und Halakha,” Trumah 7 (1998), pp. 170-174. 

Müller-Kessler, C., “Review of J. Naveh and S. Shaked Spells and Formulae,” JSS 41 

(1996), pp. 145-148. 

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Noegel, Scott B., “Review of Albert Pietersma, The Apocryphon of Jannes and Jambres 

the Magicians,” Sciences Religieuses (2002), pp. 3-4. 

Noegel, Scott B., “Review of Charles Burnett, Magic and Divination in the Middle Ages: 

Texts and Techniques in the Islamic and Christian Worlds,” Digest of Middle 

Eastern Studies 6/4 (1997), pp. 87-90. 

Noegel, Scott B., “Review of Cornelius Van Dam, The Urim and Thummim: A Means of 

Revelation in Ancient Israel,” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 59 (2000), pp. 

220-223. 

Noegel, Scott B., “Review of Gideon Bohak, Ancient Jewish Magic: A History,” Journal 

of Hebrew Scriptures 9 (2009). 

Noegel, Scott B., “Review of Frances Flannery-Dailey, Dreamers, Scribes, and Priests: 

Jewish Dreams in the Hellenistic and Roman Eras,” Journal of Hebrew 

Scriptures 5 (2004-2005), online. 

Noegel, Scott B., “Review of Jean-Marie Husser, Dreams and Dream Narratives in the 

Biblical World,” Journal for Hebrew Scriptures 3 (2000-2001), online. 

Noegel, Scott B., “Review of Leda Ciraolo and Jonathan Seidel, eds., Magic and 

Divination in the Ancient World,” Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 4 (2002-2003), 

online. 

Noegel, Scott B., “Review of Robert Kriech Ritner, The Mechanics of Ancient Egyptian 

Magical Practice,” Religious Studies Review 22 (1996), p. 55. 

Noegel, Scott B., “Review of Rüdiger Schmitt, Magie im Alten Testament,” Journal of 

Hebrew Scriptures 5 (2004-2005), online. 

Noegel, Scott B., “Review of Ruth Fidler, “Dreams Speak Falsely”? Dream 

Theophanies in the Bible: Their Place in Ancient Israelite Faith and Tradition,” 

[Heb.], Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 6 (2006), online. 

Noegel, Scott B., “Review of Shaul Bar, A Letter That Has Not Been Read: Dreams in 

the Hebrew Bible,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 122 (2002), pp. 120- 

123. 

Noegel, Scott B., “Review of Todd Klutz, ed., Magic in the Biblical World: from the Rod 

of Aaron to the Ring of Solomon,” Journal of the American Oriental Society, pp. 

429-431. 

Ogden, Daniel, “Review of Scott B. Noegel, et al., eds., Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in 

the Ancient and Late Antique World,” International Journal of the Classical 

Tradition 12 (2006), pp. 441-445. 

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Oelsner, J., “Review of J. Naveh and S. Shaked, Amulets and Magic Bowls,” 

Orientalistiche Literatuzeitung 84 (1989), pp. 38-41. 

Ribichini, S., “Review of Ann Jeffers, Magic and Divination in Ancient Palestine and 

Syria,” Rivista di Studi Fenici 26 (1998), pp. 243-246. 

Schimmel, S., “Review of S. Sharot, Messianism, Mysticism, and Magic: A Sociological 

Analysis of Jewish Religious Movements,” Journal of Religion 68 (1988), pp. 

287ff. 

Segal, J. B., “Review of J. Naveh and S. Shaked, Amulets and Magic Bowls: Aramaic 

Incantations of Late Antiquity,” JSS 31 (1986), p. 96. 

Shaked, Shaul, “Review of D. Sperber, Magic and Folklore in Rabbinic Literature,” BO 

53, pp. 516-519. 

Danijela Stefanovic, “Review of Scott B. Noegel, Nocturnal Ciphers: The Allussive 

Language of Dreams in the Ancient Near East,” Bryn Mawr Classics Review 3/5 

(2008). 

Verman, M., “Review of M. Swartz, Scholastic Magic: Ritual and Revelation in Early 

Jewish Mysticism,” Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies 74 (1999), pp. 

845ff. 

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