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The Babylonian Talmud is full of stories of demonic encounters, and it also includes many laws that attempt to regulate such encounters. In this book, Sara Ronis takes the reader on a journey acros...
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09 August 2022

The Babylonian Talmud is full of stories of demonic encounters, and it also includes many laws that attempt to regulate such 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, placing 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 ways that the rabbis participated in broader discussions about beliefs and practices with their neighbors, out of which they created a profoundly Jewish demonology.
Price: $95.00
Pages: 316
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
09 August 2022
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520386174
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
“A masterful analysis of discourses about late antique demons.”
Sara Ronis is Associate Professor of Theology at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Origin Stories
2. Classification Matters
3. How to Avoid Demonic Dangers
4. Legal Demons
5. Serving the Rabbinic Project
6. Exorcising Demons
Conclusion
Bibliography
Subject Index
Index of Jewish Sources
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Origin Stories
2. Classification Matters
3. How to Avoid Demonic Dangers
4. Legal Demons
5. Serving the Rabbinic Project
6. Exorcising Demons
Conclusion
Bibliography
Subject Index
Index of Jewish Sources