Original language | American English |
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Title of host publication | The Encyclopedia of Ancient History |
Editors | R.S. Bagnall, K. Brodersen, C.B. Champion, A. Erskine, S.R. Huebner |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons Inc. |
Number of pages | 1 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781444338386 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781405179355 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2012 |
Abstract
Sefer ha-Razim (the Book of Mysteries) is the earliest Jewish magical treatise known to us. It was composed in fine Hebrew, probably in Egypt or Palestine, during the second third of the first millennium.
Keywords
- Judaism
- Late Antiquity
- folkore and mythology