Between Worlds : : Dybbuks, Exorcists, and Early Modern Judaism / / J. H. Chajes.

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• VerfasserIn: Chajes, J. H.,
• Ort / Verlag: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012]; ©2003
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• Serie: Jewish Culture and Contexts
• Beschreibung: 1 online resource (288 p.)

After 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 Ea...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. The Emergence o/Dybbuk Possession
• Chapter 2. The Emergence o/Dybbuk Possession
• Chapter 3. The Task of the Exorcist
• Chapter 4. Dybbuk Possession and Women's Religiosity
• Chapter 5. Skeptics and Storytellers
• Arrival
• Appendix: Spirit Possession Narratives from Early Modern Jewish Sources
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• Acknowledgments