Scholastic Magic: Ritual and Revelation in Early Jewish Mysticism by Michael D. Swartz

Scholastic Magic: Ritual and Revelation in Early Jewish Mysticism

Michael D. Swartz

260 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

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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 that circulated between the fifth and ninth centur...

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