By Jacob Neusner, Paul Virgil McCracken Flesher
Each tradition makes the excellence among "true faith" and magic, relating to one motion and its outcome as "miraculous," whereas rejecting one other because the paintings of the satan. Surveying such issues as Babylonian witchcraft, Jesus the magician, magic in Hasidism and Kabbalah, and magic in Anglo-Saxon England, those ten essays offer a rigorous exam of the background of this contrast in Christianity and Judaism. Written by means of such amazing students as Jacob Neusner, Hans Penner, Howard Kee, Tzvi Abusch, Susan R. Garrett, and Moshe Idel, the essays discover a extensive diversity of subject matters, together with how definite social teams deal with authorized practices and ideology from those who are disapproved--providing clean perception into how teams outline themselves; "magic" as an insider's time period for the outsider's faith; and the tendency of spiritual traditions to exclude the mystical. furthermore the gathering presents illuminating social, cultural, and anthropological reasons for the prominence of the mystical in definite classes and literatures.
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