Contents

Continuity and Innovation in the Magical Tradition: A Jerusalem Symposium and Its Wider Contexts

The Revision of Babylonian Anti-witchcraft Incantations:The Critical Analysis of Incantations in the Ceremonial Series Maqlû

From Ritual to Magic: Ancient Egyptian Precursors of the Charitesion and their Social Setting

Scribal Practices in the Production of Magic Handbooks in Egypt

Magic and Divination: Two Apolline Oracles on Magic

Magic and Medicine in the Roman Imperial Period: Two Case Studies

When Magical Techniques and Mystical Practices Become Neighbors: Methodological Considerations

Transmission and Transformation of Spells: The Case of the Jewish Babylonian Aramaic Bowls

'This is a Qybl' for Overturning Sorceries’: Form, Formula—Threads in a Web of Transmission

Astral Magic in Ancient Jewish Discourse: Adoption, Transformation, Differentiation

The Planets, the Jews and the Beginnings of “Jewish Astrology”

Metatron and the Treasure of Gold: Notes on a Dream Inquiry Text from the Cairo Genizah

The Magical Rotuli from the Cairo Genizah

An Arabic Version of “The Sword of Moses”

Index