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Exe(o)rcising power: women as sorceresses, exorcists, and demonesses in Babylonian Jewish society of late antiquity .
- R. Lesses
- Sociology, Medicine
- Journal of the American Academy of Religion…
- 1 June 2001
This article examines talmudic discussions and archaeological finds from Sassanian Babylonia to explore two distinct but related topics: how some actual women employed ritual practices to gain power… Expand
"They Revealed Secrets to Their Wives": The Transmission of Magical Knowledge in 1 Enoch
- R. Lesses
- 2012
Speaking with Angels: Jewish and Greco-Egyptian Revelatory Adjurations
- R. Lesses
- History
- 1996
How do human beings receive answers to the most urgent questions they have of the powers of heaven? How do celestial beings provide guidance for perplexed humans? People living around the… Expand
Image and Word: Performative Ritual and Material Culture in the Aramaic Incantation Bowls
- R. Lesses
- Art
- 2013
The Aramaic incantation bowls used by Jews, Christians, Mandaeans, Zoroastrians, and others in Sassanian Babylonia, are earthenware bowls inscribed with incantations whose goal was to exorcise… Expand
THE ADJURATION OF THE PRINCE OF THE PRESENCE: PERFORMATIVE UTTERANCE IN A JEWISH RITUAL
- R. Lesses
- Art
- 1995
“The Most Worthy of Women is a Mistress of Magic”: Women as Witches and Ritual Practitioners in 1 Enoch and Rabbinic Sources
- R. Lesses
- Art
- 3 November 2014
Amulets and angels: Visionary experience in the testament of Job and the Hekhalot literature
- R. Lesses
- Art
- 2007
This chapter explores the double use of amulets and seals for protection and visionary experience in the Testament of Job and the Hekhalot literature, addressing the following questions: how do they… Expand