Aramaic Magic Bowls in the Vorderasiatisches Museum in Berlin

Siam Bhayro (PhD 2000, University College London) is Associate Professor in Early Jewish Studies at the University of Exeter. His research interests include the Bible, Semitic languages, medicine in the Christian and Islamic orient, and Jewish magic.James Nathan Ford (PhD 2003, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem) is Associate Professor in Semitic Languages at Bar-Ilan University. His research interests include Semitic philology, and ancient near eastern and Jewish magic. He received the American Oriental Society’s Jonas C. Greenfield Prize for Younger Semitists in 2000.Dan Levene (PhD 2000, University College London) is Professor of Semitics and the History of Religion at the University of Southampton. His research interests include Semitic languages, popular belief systems in Ethiopia, and Jewish magic.Ortal-Paz Saar (PhD 2009, Tel Aviv University) is a cultural historian researching Judaism and its contacts with other religious traditions. Her publications focus on ancient and medieval Jewish magic, and she currently researches Jewish diasporic identity at Utrecht University.

• PrefaceList of FiguresAbbreviationsSiglaList of ContributorsIntroductionText EditionsI VA.2182II VA.3854III VA.2418IV VA.2428V VA.Bab.2829 + VA.unnumberedDVI VA.2269VII VA.2510VIII VA.2419IX VA.2445 + VA.unnumberedCX VA.2439 + VA.unnumberedA (rim) + VA.unnumberedB (side)XI VA.2435XII VA.3383XIII VA.Bab.2765XIV VA.Bab.4167iXV VA.Bab.2792XVI VA.Bab.2764 and VA.Bab.2840CatalogueJoined Fragments (with Different Shelf Marks)GlossaryJewish Babylonian AramaicMandaicSyriacList of Terms DiscussedList of Divine Names, Angels, Demons, and Exemplary FiguresList of Beneficiaries and AdversariesList of Biblical QuotationsList of TextsBibliographyIndex

"The presentation, transcriptions, translations, and commentaries are excellent examples of the finest scholarship from some of the leading scholars in the study of ancient Aramaic and its dialects [...]. The manuscript and the bowls it introduces should be eagerly received and examined by graduate students and scholars of the Hebrew Bible, esoteric traditions of later antiquity (like the seals of Solomon, demonology, etc.), and the historical development of Aramaic." - Peter T. Lanfer, Occidental College, in: Review of Biblical Literature 8 (2019)