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

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...

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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012]
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Năm xuất bản:2012
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Loạt:Jewish Culture and Contexts
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Mục lục:
  • 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