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LATIN BOOK OF DEMONS SERIES
In it, Sara Ronis compares demons in the Babylonian Talmud to their near and distant relatives throughout Mesopotamia and the Mediterranean. Book Series Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies, vol. "This is a well-researched and much-needed project that contributes tremendously to our understanding of rabbinic culture and how it fits into its surrounding and preceding cultures. Christian demonology is the study of demons from a Christian point of view. Racoosin Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics, The Jewish Theological Seminary "Sara Ronis's determination to take seriously the diversity of cultural contexts that are necessary for understanding Babylonian rabbinic literature is salutary, and her study is superior to many earlier, more one-sided attempts."-Richard Kalmin, Theodore R. Stratton, author of Naming the Witch: Magic, Ideology, and Stereotype in the Ancient World T he final text of Exorcisms and Related Supplications (ERS) was confirmed by the Holy See in December 2016 and implemented in the dioceses of the United. American author William Peter Blatty wrote the horror novel The Exorcist, published in 1971, and he also produced and wrote the script for the classic 1973 film versionthe screenplay for which he won an Academy Award. It uses the lens of demonology to illuminate the writings of the sages and concomitantly the wider ancient Mediterranean world."-Kimberly B. The Latin Church Bishops of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops approved the English translation of De Exorcismis et Supplicationibus Quibusdam, editio typica in November 2014. By treating the rabbis as members of a scholastic elite, in conversation with other religious and philosophical communities in Sasanian Babylonia, Demons in the Details is at the cutting edge of contemporary rabbinic scholarship. Seals of the Demons, Exorcisms, spells and chronicles. Sara Ronis demonstrates that rabbis constructed themselves as powerful and important masters of the demonic denizens of their world in ways that affirmed rabbinic power, authority, and creativity. A complete treatise on the devils history, on the evocation of the demons and angels. "A fascinating study bursting with insights into the diversity of ideas about demons and religious difference across antiquity.
