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Demons in the Details: Demonic Discourse and Rabbinic Culture in Late Antique Babylonia

Name: Demons in the Details: Demonic Discourse and Rabbinic Culture in Late Antique Babylonia
Brand: University of California Press
SKU: 9780520418363
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Contributors:

Sara Ronis

Publisher:

University of California Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

History, Religion

Book Subcategory:

Ancient, Judaism

Book Topic:

Talmud

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Release Date:

2025-04-22

ISBN 13:

9780520418363

Weight:

0.85 lbs

Size:

9.00 x 6.00 x 0.64 inches

Pages:

316

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The Babylonian Talmud is full of stories of demonic encounters, and it also includes many laws that attempt to regulate such 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, placing 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 ways that the rabbis participated in broader discussions about beliefs and practices with their neighbors, out of which they created a profoundly Jewish demonology.

About the Author
Sara Ronis is Associate Professor of Theology at St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas.

Demons in the Details: Demonic Discourse and Rabbinic Culture in Late Antique Babylonia

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