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June 9, 2026Journal of Semitic Studies0 citations

A Jewish Aramaic Magic Text on Linen

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SBSiam BhayroABAnne Burberry

Key Points

  • The aim is to describe a previously unknown linen scroll with Jewish Aramaic magic texts and provide context within Jewish magical traditions.
  • Analyzed the scroll's probable date and owner's name.
  • Examined the drawings and linguistic features within the text.
  • Provided an editio princeps of one of the texts.
  • Conjectured the scrolls relate to the corpus of Jewish Aramaic magic bowls.
  • Provided new insights into the cultural context of the magic texts.

Abstract

Abstract This article presents a description of a hitherto unknown artefact, a linen scroll that contains a series of Jewish Aramaic magic texts. It is one of a pair of linen scroll texts; the scrolls are presently in a private collection, and nothing is known about their archaeological provenance. However, through examination of the probable date of the scroll, the name of its owner, the drawings it contains, and certain linguistic aspects, this article demonstrates that we can safely conjecture that the linen scrolls should be contextualized alongside the corpus of Jewish Aramaic magic bowls. The article also presents an editio princeps of one of the texts on the scroll.

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Bhayro et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a27adb0a963992e16267d61https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgag017
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