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      Mystical Prayer in Ancient Judaism: An Analysis of Ma'aseh Merkavah

      Michael D. Swartz

      Includes text of Maaseh merkavah in English translation.

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      The Mechanics of Providence: The Workings of Ancient Jewish Magic and Mysticism

      Michael D. Swartz

      The phenomena we call magic and mysticism had a profound effect on the shaping of Judaism in late antiquity. In this volume, Michael D. Swartz offers a wide-ranging study of…

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      The Signifying Creator: Nontextual Sources of Meaning in Ancient Judaism

      Michael D. Swartz

      In exploring the diverse functions of signs outside of the realm of the written word, this book introduces unfamiliar sources and motifs from the formative age of Judaism, including magical…

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      The Signifying Creator: Non-textual Sources of Meaning in Ancient Judaism

      Michael D. Swartz

      Shows us how ancient Jews perceived hidden signs and read them, elaborating on their use of divination, symbolic interpretation of physical features and dress and interpretations of historical events

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      Scholastic Magic: Ritual and Revelation in Early Jewish Mysticism

      Michael D. Swartz

      In exploring the social background of early Jewish mysticism, Scholastic Magic tells the story of how imagination and magic were made to serve memory and scholasticism. In the visionary literature…

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      Scholastic Magic: Ritual and Revelation in Early Jewish Mysticism

      Michael D. Swartz

      In exploring the social background of early Jewish mysticism, Scholastic Magic tells the story of how imagination and magic were made to serve memory and scholasticism. In the visionary literature…

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      Avodah: Ancient Poems for Yom Kippur

      Michael D. Swartz (Professor of Hebrew),Joseph Yahalom (Professor of Hebrew Literature)

      This work is a major translation of one of the most important genres of the lost literature of the ancient synagogue. Known as the Avodah piyyutim, this liturgical poetry was…

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      Avodah: Ancient Poems for Yom Kippur

      Michael D. Swartz (Professor of Hebrew),Joseph Yahalom (Professor of Hebrew Literature)

      Avodah is the first major translation of one of the most important genres of the lost literature of the ancient synagogue. Piyyut literature can teach us much about how ancient…

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      Hebrew and Aramaic Incantation Texts from the Cairo Genizah

      Lawrence Schiffmann,Michael Swartz,Cairo Genizah

      In this volume, the authors assemble a group of Jewish incantation texts which were copied in the Middle Ages and preserved in the Cairo Genizah. Most of these texts, now…

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      From Scrolls to Traditions: A Festschrift Honoring Lawrence H. Schiffman

      This Festschrift in honor of Professor Lawrence H. Schiffman, a leading authority on the Dead Sea Scrolls and Rabbinic Judaism, includes contributions by twenty of his disciples, each of whom…

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