Solomonic magic

methodology, texts, and histories

K10plus union-catalog record

1 Online-Ressource (360 Seiten); Illustrationen; Includes bibliographical references and index; Magical and religious literature of Late Antiquity; Preface -- List of Figures and Tables -- A Note on Hebrew Transliteration -- Part 1 Methodology -- 1 Philology -- 1 Genes and Scale Shifting -- 2 Textual Networks -- 2 Solomonic Magic: A Term in Flux or a Distinct Tradition? -- 1 Defining through Polemical Discourses -- 2 The Anatomical Anomaly of “Solomonic Magic” -- 3 From Micro(s) to Macro: Multi-Sources and Scribal Strategies -- 1 Practitioners’ Confessions -- 2 Genesis Narratives -- Part 1: Summary -- Part 2 Texts -- Clusters and Nodes: A Brief Introduction -- 4 Liber Bileth ( LB ) -- 1 Liber Bileth : Fusing Two Texts into One -- 2 The Book of Spirits -- 3 The Marvelous Ring -- 4 Liber Bileth : Preliminary Intra-Clusteric Genetic Analysis -- 5 Clavicula Salomonis ( CS ) -- 1 Italian and Latin Claviculae : The Clavicula ’s Ritual and Six Methods -- 2 An English Clavicula : The Return of Bileth Son of Aned -- 3 French Clavicula -- 4 Hebrew Claviculae -- 5 Clavicula Salomonis : Preliminary Intra-Clusteric Genetic Analysis -- 6 Sapientia Salomonis ( SP ) -- 1 A Consecrated Catalog of Demons -- 2 Liber consecrationum -- 3 Ḥokhmat Shlomo : The Hebrew SP s -- 4 Sapientia Salomonis : Preliminary Intra-Clusteric Genetic Analysis -- 5 Liber centum regum -- 6 Intra- and Inter-Clusteric Analysis -- Part 2: Summary -- Part 3 Histories -- Introduction: Beyond the Solomonic Veil -- 7 The Babylonian Background -- 1 Ḥover Ḥaver —The Reception of a Biblical Term -- 2 Babylonian Jews and Demons—Expelling or Gathering? -- 8 Sefer Haqqevitza -- 1 Gathering Demons in Fustat— Sefer Haqqevitza and the Four Elements -- 2 Sefer Haqqevitza —A Babylonian Component of the Solomonic Network -- 3 Solomonic Attribution -- 4 Where Are You, Arabic Sources? Some Short Notes on a Great Lacuna -- 9 Binding Demons in Medieval Ashkenaz and Provence -- 1 Ashkenazic Ḥasidim and Sefer Haqqevitza -- 2 The Chiefs of the Teli -- 3 The Demonology of the Kohen Brothers -- 10 Binding Demons in Medieval Spain—The Astral Turn -- 1 Moses of Burgos and Nachmanides -- 2 Liber Razielis -- 3 Berit Menuḥa -- 11 Berengar Ganell and Liber Theysolius -- 1 The Magisterium and the Summa -- 2 Repositories of Names: The Case of Liber Theysolius -- 12 The Age of the Clavicula -- 1 Clavicula Salomonis : An Italian Reaction to Information Overload -- 2 SQR Genes in the Early Modern Period -- 3 Abraham Colorni and the Untold Story of the Hebrew Claviculae -- 13 Curating Wisdom—The Art of Knowledge Cataloging -- 1 Making Catalogs I : Demons -- 2 Making Catalogs II : Pentacles -- 14 The Greek Myth -- 1 Rethinking the Hygromanteia Hypothesis -- 2 Catoptromancy and the Solomonic Network -- Part 3: Summary -- Solomonic Magic: Final Thoughts -- Bibliography -- Index; volume 11