[PDF.87aq] Between Worlds: Dybbuks, Exorcists, and Early Modern Judaism (Jewish Culture and Contexts)

Between Worlds: Dybbuks, Exorcists, and Early Modern Judaism (Jewish Culture and Contexts)

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 | #564047 in Books |  2011-08-31 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.02 x.65 x5.98l,1.00 | File type: PDF | 288 pages

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||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Warning: Scholarly work ahead. Keep a dictionary and the internet handy. Proceed with caution.|By Warlock5555|Between Worlds is dense with knowledge on the history of exorcisms and demon possession especially as it pertains to Judaism and kabbalah. It is one of the only books I am aware of that attempts to put in historical perspective the phenomenon. The vast array of source t| ||"This is a major contribution, not only to early modern Jewish studies but to the subject of spirit possession broadly conceived in the Christian world."—Edward Peters, University of Pennsylvania

|"Chajes's excellent new book . . . succeeds i

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 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.
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