The Materiality of Power
Explorations in the Social History of Ancient Israelite Magic
by Brian B. Schmidt
Brian B. Schmidt presents five case studies in which architectural spaces, artifacts, epigraphs, images and biblical manuscripts corroborate the existence of a robust daimonic realm in late pre-exilic Israel, along with an embryonic pandemonium. The material and epigraphic data from Kuntillet Ajrud, Ketef Hinnom, and Khirbet el-Qom, along with the manuscript evidence from Deut 32 and 1 Sam 28, indicate that pandemonium members wreaked havoc on the living and the dead. The same data also preserve a countervailing realm of apotropaism over which YHWH and Asherah, portrayed as the quintessential protective deities Bes and Beset, governed. In addition to Asherah’s role in this realm as YHWH’s mediatrix, various other material media including amulets, inscribed blessings, decorated jars served to convey apotropaism’s empowerment to humanity.
- By (author) Brian B Schmidt
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Schriftgelehrte Traditionsliteratur
Fallstudien zur innerbiblischen Schriftauslegung im Alten Testament
Volume 77
Das Angesicht JHWHs
Studien zu seinem höfischen und kultischen Bedeutungshintergrund in den Psalmen und in Exodus 32-34
Volume 55
The Exodus-Conquest Narrative
The Composition of the Non-Priestly Narratives in Exodus-Joshua
Volume 115
Geschichte und Gebet
Die Rezeption der biblischen Geschichte in den Psalmen des Alten Testaments
Volume 94
Schriftgelehrte Traditionsliteratur
Fallstudien zur innerbiblischen Schriftauslegung im Alten Testament
Volume 77
Bet-El – Erinnerungen an eine Stadt
Perspektiven der alttestamentlichen Bet-El-Überlieferung
Volume 49
Neuanfang und Kontinuitat in Jerusalem
Studien zu den hermeneutischen Strategien im Esra-Nehemia-Buch
Volume 104
Elephantine in Context
Studies on the History, Religion and Literature of the Judeans in Persian Period Egypt
Volume 155
Grundfragen der historischen Exegese
Methodologische, philologische und hermeneutische Beitrage zum Alten Testament
Volume 95
Rhetoric and Hermeneutics
Approaches to Text, Tradition and Social Construction in Biblical and Second Temple Literature
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