The Materiality of Power
"Were there countervailing cosmic realms ruled by Yahweh and Asherah in late pre-exilic Israel? Brian B. Schmidt presents five case studies corroborating the existence of a daimonic realm replete with intermediary protecticve spirits and a pandemonium that wreaked havoc upon both the living and dead. Having converged with Egypt's protective deities Bes and Beset, YHWH and Asherah also possessed the enhanced powers to govern a counteractive apotropaic realm from which Asherah mediated divine portections for humanity." -- bck cover
258 pages, 2 editions
English edition · First published 2016 by Mohr Siebeck · ISBN 9783161533020
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English
- The materiality of power · Mohr Siebeck · 2016 · ISBN 9783161533020 · 1 reader This page
- The Materiality of Power: Explorations in the Social History of Ancient Israelite Magic · Mohr Siebeck · 2019 · ISBN 9783161547096
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