Demons in the Details: Demonic Discourse and Rabbinic Culture in Late Antique Babylonia

Sara Ronis

Demons in the Details: Demonic Discourse and Rabbinic Culture in Late Antique Babylonia
Format
Hardback
Publisher
University of California Press
Country
United States
Published
30 August 2022
Pages
284
ISBN
9780520386174

Demons in the Details: Demonic Discourse and Rabbinic Culture in Late Antique Babylonia

Sara Ronis

The Babylonian Talmud is full of stories of demonic encounters and laws that attempt to regulate those encounters. In this book, Sara Ronis takes the reader on a journey across the rabbinic canon, exploring how Late Antique rabbis imagined, feared, and controlled demons. Ronis contextualizes the Talmud’s thought within the rich cultural matrix of Sasanian Babylonia, putting rabbinic thinking in conversation with Sumerian, Akkadian, Ugaritic, Syriac Christian, Zoroastrian, and Second Temple Jewish texts about demons to delve into the interactive communal context in which the rabbis created boundaries between the human and the supernatural, and between themselves and other religious communities. Demons in the Details explores the wide range of approaches that the rabbis took to their neighbors’ beliefs and practices, out of which they created a profoundly Jewish demonology.

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