TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgments .................................................................................. vii

Introduction ............................................................................................. ix
Asakk: Demons and Illness in Ancient Mesopotamia ..................... 1
Andrs Bcskay
Notes on the Presence of Magic within the Hebrew Bible
in Light of Akkadian Literature ..................................................... 9
Ronnie Goldstein
Apotropaic Intercession in the Hebrew Bible
and the Ancient Near East........................................................... 19
Marian Broida
Magical Healing at Qumran (11Q11)
and the Question of the Calendar............................................... 39
Ida Frhlich
Calendars in the Book of Esther: Purim, Festivals, Cosmology ..... 51
Helen R. Jacobus
Drawing a Line between Prophecy, Magic and Divination ............. 77
Heiko Wenzel
Dreams in the Hebrew Bible and Wisdom Literature ...................... 89
Eleni Soumani
Aaron and the Amazing Mantic Coat ...............................................101
Philippe Guillaume
From Mantle to Scroll: the Wane of the Flesh and Blood
Prophet in the Elisha Cycle .......................................................119
Hadi Ghantous
Drinking Golden Bull: the Erased Ordeal in Exodus 32 ...............135
Philippe Guillaume
A Kind of Magic? The Law of Jealousy in Numbers 5:1131
as Magical Ritual and as Ritual Text .........................................149
Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme

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STUDIES IN MAGIC AND DIVINATION

Peter and Simon in the Acts of Peter:

between Magic and Miracles ......................................................169
Kasper Dalgaard
Paul and Magic: Complementary or Incongruent Entities?
Scholarly use of the Concept of Magic, its Definition,
and Prevalence of Magic in Pauls World ................................181
Anders Klostergaard Petersen
How Biblical Verses Became an Enchantment against the Evil
Eye (Genesis 48:16; 49:22 in Berakhot 20a; 55 b)..................211
Chaim Nathan Marx
The Use of Biblical Quotations
in Jewish Aramaic Incantation Bowls ......................................227
Christa Mller-Kessler
Bibliography ..........................................................................................247
Index .......................................................................................................303
Index of Ancient Sources ....................................................................305