SCHOLASTIC MAGIC - Ritual and Revelation in Early Jewish Mysticism - Michael Swartz (Hardback, Princeton University Press, 1996)

SCHOLASTIC MAGIC - Ritual and Revelation in Early Jewish Mysticism - Michael Swartz (Hardback, Princeton University Press, 1996)SCHOLASTIC MAGIC Ritual and Revelation in Early Jewish Mysticism Michael Swartz (Princeton University Press, 1996) Hardback with dust jacket. 264 pages. In exploring the social background of early Jewish mysticism, Scholastic Magic tells the story of how imagination and magic were made to serve memory and scholasticism. In the visionary literature that circulated between the fifth and ninth centuries, there are strange tales of ancient rabbis