Dear Colleagues,
please be invited to our hybrid conference (zoom link below) that will happen in Paris this week. register for in-person attendance via email or join us via zoom.
International Hybrid Conference
The intertwining of magic and knowledge/sciences in the premodern Mediterranean (and beyond)
Paris, 18-19 May 2023
Dear Colleagues,
please be invited to our hybrid conference (zoom link below) that will happen in Paris this week. register for in-person attenance via email or join us via toom.
International Hybrid Conference
The intertwining of magic and knowledge/sciences in the premodern Mediterranean (and beyond)
Paris, 18-19 May 2023
The Babylonian Talmud is the principal surviving literary source for the Jewish communities in the Sasanian empire (3rd to 7th centuries AD). As a result, scholarship has primarily focused on the rabbinic elite represented in and responsible for the Talmud. However, hundreds of Jewish magical amulets written on bowls provide access to the unknown lives and practices of Jews in the very cities in which the Babylonian rabbis flourished. These magical texts may serve as a rare vantage point from which to reconstruct the social and cultural history of Jews in the Sasanian empire.
Submitted by Barry Flood
New York University, Silsila: Center for Material Histories
Submitted by Joachim Meyer:
I'm inquiring on behalf of a friend who is currently developing research on
healing amulets. He writes:
