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Between Worlds: Dybbuks, Exorcists, and Early Modern Judaism » (1st Edition)
Authors: J. H. Chajes, Jeffrey Howard Chajes
ISBN-13: 9780812237245, ISBN-10: 0812237242
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Date Published: June 2003
Edition: 1st Edition
Author Biography: J. H. Chajes
J. H. Chajes teaches Jewish history at the University of Haifa.
Book Synopsis
"This is a major contribution, not only to early modern Jewish studies but to the subject of spirit possession broadly conceived in the Christian world."—Edward Peters, University of Pennsylvania
Table of Contents
| Introduction | 1 | |
| 1 | The Emergence of Dybbuk Possession | 11 |
| 2 | The Dead and the Possessed | 32 |
| 3 | The Task of the Exorcist | 57 |
| 4 | Dybbuk Possession and Women's Religiosity | 97 |
| 5 | Skeptics and Storytellers | 119 |
| Arrival | 139 | |
| App | Spirit Possession Narratives from Early Modern Jewish Sources | 141 |
| Notes | 181 | |
| Bibliography | 245 | |
| Index | 267 | |
| Acknowledgments | 277 |
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Christianity
Judaism & Judaica Jewish Life
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Christianity Judaism & Judaica Theology, Jewish
Christianity All Religion General & Miscellaneous Religion
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Judaism & Judaica Mysticism & Kabbalah - Judaism Dybbuk
Judaism & Judaica Theology - Jewish Afterlife -> Judaism
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