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This chapter’s explorations of Jewish magic tales rest on Hebrew manuscript books that are traceable to specific geographic locations or particular historical eras, and sometimes to both. Biblical histories from the Torah, the first five books of the canonical Bible, underlay centuries of Jewish tellings of magic tales and also provided plot outlines or characters for later expansions of those tales. A close consideration of Moses’ supernaturally powerful exploits as they exist in the Torah opens the chapter, and is followed by an examination of magic tales from the Babylonian exile, the period of revolts against Roman authority, and ancient and medieval diasporic narratives.
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© 2014 Ruth B. Bottigheimer
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Bottigheimer, R.B. (2014). Jewish Magic Tales. In: Magic Tales and Fairy Tale Magic. Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137380883_3
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