Review of Reed, Demons, Angels, and Writing in Ancient Judaism

ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Book Note | Demons, Angels, and Writing in Ancient Judaism (Amit Gvaryahu).

Annette Yoshiko Reed, Demons, Angels, and Writing in Ancient Judaism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. DOI: 10.1017/9781139030847. x+353 pp.

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Annette Reed, in Demons, Angels, and Writing in Ancient Judaism, opens a door to a world in which this [rabbinic] curriculum is turned entirely on its head: where demons and angels, astronomy and geometry, are at the center of a scholarly enterprise of codifying and organizing knowledge about life, the universe, and everything. ...

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