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035 _a(DE-B1597)449007
035 _a(OCoLC)979591435
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aChajes, J. H.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aBetween Worlds :
_bDybbuks, Exorcists, and Early Modern Judaism /
_cJ. H. Chajes.
264 1 _aPhiladelphia :
_bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,
_c[2012]
264 4 _c©2003
300 _a1 online resource (288 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 0 _aJewish Culture and Contexts
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tIntroduction --
_tChapter 1. The Emergence o/Dybbuk Possession --
_tChapter 2. The Emergence o/Dybbuk Possession --
_tChapter 3. The Task of the Exorcist --
_tChapter 4. Dybbuk Possession and Women's Religiosity --
_tChapter 5. Skeptics and Storytellers --
_tArrival --
_tAppendix: Spirit Possession Narratives from Early Modern Jewish Sources --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex --
_tAcknowledgments
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aAfter a nearly two-thousand-year interlude, and just as Christian Europe was in the throes of the great Witch Hunt and what historians have referred to as "The Age of the Demoniac," accounts of spirit possession began to proliferate in the Jewish world. Concentrated at first in the Near East but spreading rapidly westward, spirit possession, both benevolent and malevolent, emerged as perhaps the most characteristic form of religiosity in early modern Jewish society.Adopting a comparative historical approach, J. H. Chajes uncovers this strain of Jewish belief to which scant attention has been paid. Informed by recent research in historical anthropology, Between Worlds provides fascinating descriptions of the cases of possession as well as analysis of the magical techniques deployed by rabbinic exorcists to expel the ghostly intruders.Seeking to understand the phenomenon of spirit possession in its full complexity, Chajes delves into its ideational framework-chiefly the doctrine of reincarnation-while exploring its relation to contemporary Christian and Islamic analogues. Regarding spirit possession as a form of religious expression open to-and even dominated by-women, Chajes initiates a major reassessment of women in the history of Jewish mysticism. In a concluding section he examines the reception history of the great Hebrew accounts of spirit possession, focusing on the deployment of these "ghost stories" in the battle against incipient skepticism in the turbulent Jewish community of seventeenth-century Amsterdam.Exploring a phenomenon that bridged learned and ignorant, rich and poor, men and women, Jews and Gentiles, Between Worlds maps for the first time a prominent feature of the early modern Jewish religious landscape, as "idian as it was portentous: the nexus of the living and the dead.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022)
650 0 _aDybbuk.
650 0 _aExorcism.
650 0 _aMysticism
_xJudaism.
650 0 _aSpirit possession.
650 4 _aReligious Studies.
650 7 _aRELIGION / Judaism / History.
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653 _aJewish Studies.
653 _aMedieval and Renaissance Studies.
653 _aReligion.
653 _aReligious Studies.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.9783/9780812201550
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812201550
856 4 2 _3Cover
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999 _c198043
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