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Michael D. Swartz
The Mechanics of Providence
The Workings of Ancient Jewish Magic and Mysticism
[Die Mechanismen der Vorsehung. Die Abläufe antiker jüdischer Magie und Mystik.]
2018. XVI, 333 pages. Summary
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What effect did the phenomena we call magic and mysticism have on the shaping of Judaism in late antiquity? Michael D. Swartz offers a wide-ranging study of the purposes, world-views, ritual dynamics, literary forms, and social settings of ancient Jewish magic and mysticism and their function in religion and history.