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Demons in the Details

Demonic Discourse and Rabbinic Culture in Late Antique Babylonia

Sara Ronis

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English
University of California Press
09 August 2022
The Babylonian Talmud is full of stories of demonic encounters and laws that attempt to regulate those 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, putting 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 approaches that the rabbis took to their neighbors' beliefs and practices, out of which they created a profoundly Jewish demonology.
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Imprint:   University of California Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 25mm
Weight:   544g
ISBN:   9780520386174
ISBN 10:   0520386175
Pages:   316
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Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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

Sara Ronis is Associate Professor of Theology at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas.

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