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PHANTASMAGORIA: THE IMAGE OF THE IMAGE IN JEWISH MAGIC FROM LATE ANTIQUITY TO THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES Elliot R. Wolfson New York University Si (como el griego afirma en el Cratilo) El nombre arqteiou de la cosam En las letras dc la rosa esta la rosa Y doto el Nilo des en la palabra Nilo Y, hecho de consonantes y vocales, Habra un terrible Nombre, que la esencia Clifrc de Dios y que la Omnipotencia Guarde en letras y silabas cabales. Jorge Luis Borges, "El Golem"' Sign-language: magic and the role of image The phenomenon of magic is notoriously difficult to pinpoint. Indeed, numerous scholars with such diverse training as anthropology, soci- ology, psychology, folklore, and history of religions have tried their hand at offering a useful taxonomy. Some have argued that there can be no definition of magic since the phenomenon must always be viewed from within the particular context in which it appears in all its complex simplicity and simple complexity.' I would not pre- ' If, as the Greek maintains in the Crarylus, a name is the archetype of a thing, the rose is in the letters that spell rose and the Nile entire resounds
Review of Rabbinic Judaism – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2001
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