Contributors include: Tzvi Abusch, Joachim Friedrich Quack, Jacco Dieleman, Fritz Graf, Christopher Faraone, Ithamar Gruenwald, Shaul Shaked, Dan Levene, Kocku von Stuckrad, Reimund Leicht, Yuval Harari, Gideon Bohak, and Alexander Fodor.
Gideon Bohak, Ph.D Princeton 1994 is Professor of Jewish Culture
and Religious Studies at Tel-Aviv University. He has published
extensively on ancient Judaism and on Jewish magic, including
Ancient Jewish Magic (Cambridge University Press, 2008).
Yuval Harari, Ph.D (1998) in Jewish Studies, The Hebrew University
of Jerusalem, is a senior lecturer of Hebrew Literature and
Folklore Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He has
published extensively on textual and cultural aspects of Jewish
magic, including Early Jewish Magic – Research, Method, Sources
(Ben-Zvi Institute Publications and The Bialik Institute
Publications, 2010) (Hebrew).
Shaul Shaked is Professor emeritus in Iranian Studies and
Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Among
his books are Dualism in Transformation (London 1994), Amulets and
Magic Bowls (with Joseph Naveh, 3rd edition, Jerusalem 1998),
Magische Texte aus der Kairoer GenizaM, so far 3 vols. (With Peter
Schaefer, Tuebingen 1994-).
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