Los judíos como expertos en prácticas terapéuticas en el mundo tardoantiguo: de la Enkoimesis y otras ritualidades mágicas

Pablo A.  Torijano; Silvia  Acerbi

doi:10.3989/sefarad.022-006

Authors

Pablo A. Torijano Universidad Complutense de Madrid https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9131-1562
Silvia Acerbi Universidad de Cantabria https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8326-4591

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/sefarad.022-006

Keywords:

Magic, Ritual power, Incubatio, Late Antiquity, Judaism

Abstract

Israel first and Early Judaism afterwards did practice a sort of incubation that focused on divination. In the present paper we show how healing incubatio was performed by Jews near by or within the Synagogue, a practiced mentioned by John Chrysostom and that mirrors the importance that the dreams and their interpretation had in the Judaism of Late Antiquity.

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