MAGIC

Gideon Bohak

doi:10.1017/9781139048873.033

MAGIC

Gideon Bohak

Department of Jewish Philosophy

Tel Aviv University

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“Magic” is a notoriously difficult term whose exact meaning tends to change from one scholarly treatment to the next. For the purpose of the current survey, magic is the attempt to achieve concrete results in the real world through actions that seek to harness or influence supernatural forces. However, as much of Judaism easily falls under such a definition, in the following survey we shall focus especially on practices that remained outside the framework of “normative Judaism” as embedded in its standard halakhic codes and prayer books.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Cambridge History of Judaism
Subtitle of host publication	Volume V: Jews in the Medieval Islamic World
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Pages	864-890
Number of pages	27
Volume	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9781139048873
ISBN (Print)	9780521517171
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139048873.033
State	Published - 1 Jan 2021

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