Aramaic Bowl Spells ─ Jewish Babylonian Aramaic Bowls

This volume presents editions of sixty-three Jewish Aramaic incantation bowls from the Sch yen Collection, with accompanying introductions, translations, philological notes, photographs and indices, relating to the magical divorce and the wonder-working sages anina ben Dosa and Joshua bar Pera ia.

Shaul Shaked, Ph.D. (1964) in Iranian Languages, SOAS, is Schwarzmann University Professor (Emeritus) in Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published extensively in the fields of Semitic and Iranian Philology, Zoroastrianism and Judaism, and received the Israel Prize for Linguistics in 2000.James Nathan Ford, Ph.D. (2003) in Ugaritic magic, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is Senior Lecturer in Semitic Languages at Bar-Ilan University. His research interests include Semitic philology and ancient near eastern and Jewish magic. He received the American Oriental Society's Jonas C. Greenfield Prize for Younger Semitists in 2000.Siam Bhayro, Ph.D. (2000) in Semitic Languages, University College London, is Senior Lecturer in Early Jewish Studies at the University of Exeter. His research interests include the Bible, Semitic Languages, Early Judaism, medicine in the Christian and Islamic orient, and Jewish magic.