TY  - BOOK
AU  - Swartz,Michael D.
TI  - Scholastic Magic: ritual and revelation in early Jewish mysticism 
T2  - Princeton legacy library
SN  - 9781400864416
AV  - BM526 
U1  - 296.1 20
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Princeton, New Jersey
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Heikhalot rabbati
KW  - Maʻaśeh merkavah
KW  - fast
KW  - Mysticism
KW  - Judaism
KW  - History
KW  - Jewish magic
KW  - Rabbis
KW  - Prayers and devotions
KW  - Intercessory prayer
KW  - RELIGION / Judaism / Rituals & Practice
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION / Judaism / General
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-247) and indexes; Introduction. Mentalities of ancient Judaism -- Memory, Torah, and magic -- The Sar-Torah texts. The texts -- Sar-Torah narratives : translation and analysis -- Sar-Torah rituals and related texts -- Ritual and revelation. Ritual and Purity -- Tradition and authority -- Conclusions. Scholastic magic
N2  - In exploring the social background of early Jewish mysticism, Scholastic Magic tells the story of how imagination and magic were made to serve memory and scholasticism. In the visionary literature that circulated between the fifth and ninth centuries, there are strange tales of ancient rabbis conjuring the angel known as Sar-Torah, the "Prince of the Torah." This angel endowed the rabbis themselves with spectacular memory and skill in learning, and then taught them the formulas for giving others these gifts. This literature, according to Michael Swartz, gives us rare glimpse
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