Monday, May 24, 2021

The Sixth Annual Workshop on Jewish Magic and its Wider Contexts

ZOOM EVENT: The Sixth Annual Workshop on Jewish Magic and its Wider Contexts. Unfortunately I can't find a website for the event, but registration information is at the link. The event takes place on 3 and 6 June. From the flier, the program is as follows:

Thursday, 3 June (Israel time, GMT+ 3)
18:30 – 17:00
Marco Moriggi (Università di Catania):
Syriac Incantation Bowls and the Mesopotamian Context: A Glimpse into Christian-Jewish Cultural Interactions
Joseph E. Sanzo (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia):
P. Haun. III 51 (Suppl. Mag. I 23): Reflections on Materiality and Ritual Gesture in Late Antique Lived Religion
Korshi Dosoo (Universität Würzburg): Solomon in Coptic Magic

19:30 – 18:30
Break

20:30 – 19:30
Angelika Berlejung (Universität Leipzig):
Amulet or Votive? Outer Shape and inscription in Conflict in Some “Amulets" of the 1st Millennium BCE
Fritz Graf (Ohio State University): Magic and the Baths: A View from Gadara

Sunday, 6 June
18:30 – 17:00
Esther Eidinow (University of Bristol):
Some Thoughts on the Psychology of Ancient Greek Magic
Robert Daniel (Universität zu Köln): From Work on the Project Magica Levantina: New Curses from Syrian Antioch and Daphne
Richard Gordon (Universität Erfurt): Experimenting with Ambitious Formularies/Grimoires, Graeco-Egyptian and Other

19:30 – 18:30
Break

20:30 – 19:30
Gideon Bohak (Tel Aviv University) and
Rivka Elitzur-Leiman (Tel Aviv University):
Tyche and the Angels who Sit: Three Ancient Jewish Amulets.
Roy Kotansky (Independent Scholar): More Aramaic and Hebrew Words on Unpublished Greek Amulets

Organizers > Avigail Manekin-Bamberger, Gideon Bohak, Yakir Paz
Further information > Avigail Manekin-Bamberger: Avigail.Manekin@mail.huji.ac.il | Yakir Paz: yakir.paz@mail.huji.ac.il

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