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ANCIENT SOURCES INDEX
For a complete list of incantation bowl texts in the Catalogue, see
the Table of Distribution.
Hebrew Bible
(Introduction)
Gen. 21.1 26 Isa. 60.6 28
Gen. 25.21 26 Isa. 60.8 28
Gen. 30.22 24-26 Isa. 60.11 28
Exod. 3.14 11-12 Jer. 8.4 18
cai 14.31 e Amos 8.14 18
Exod. 15.3
h. 3.2 12,33 395
Exod. 15.7 24 one 3 24
Exod. 15.15 38
ae 30 Ps. 10.16 11,31
Exod. 15.18 11, 21 as ae 2
Exod. 22.23 29 Sakae
Ps. 69.24 29, 38
A = - Ps. 69.26 29
ree Ps. 72.18-19 6
Lev. 9.24 29 pe ue Ss 6
wake ees cae Ps. 91.1 17, 22, 25,
Lev. 26.37 18 35-36
Num. 6.24-26 23 Ps. 93.1 11, 21
Num. 9.23 22 Ps. 104.20 14
Num. 10.35 17-18, 34 Ps. 104.31 6
Num. 15.37-41 26 Ps. 106.47 6
Deut. 6.4 17, 22, 26 Ps. 106.48 6
Deut. 6.4-9 6, 26 Ps. 115.1 9, 15-16
Deut. 6.19 28-29 Prov. 3.4 27
Deut. 11.13-21 6, 26
Deut. 28.22 19, 29
Deut. 28.28 19, 29
Deut. 28.35 19, 29
Deut. 28.57 36-37
Deut. 29.19 29
Isa. 40.12 14-15
Isa. 45.2 10-11
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A 33965
AMB 3
AMB 9
AMB 11
AMB 12b
AMB 13
HS 3027
HS 3030
IM 141803
JBA 9
JBA 28
JBA 46
JBA 55
M 108
M155
MFL 10895
MS 1927/2:5
MS 2053/159
SD 34
VA 2423
VA 2484
VA 3853
VA 3854
13
17-18, 34—
35
9, 18, 19,
29, 33-34,
38
17
15
24
13
13
13, 38
14, 21
11
36-37
17
6-7, 14
10-11
24-25
27
20-21
27-28
35-36
28-29
6
6
Amulets and Genizah
Texts
T-S K 1.143
T-S K 1.157
26
26
Rabbinic Texts
Seder Amram
Sifre Num. 40
m. Sebu. 4.13
Targumim
(Introduction)
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6, 117, 133,
135, 141,
142, 152
23
64, 100,
138, 144,
151
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in the published corpus of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic magic bowls. As our only direct
epigraphic witnesses to the Hebrew Bible from late antique Babylonia, the bowls are
uniquely placed to contribute to research on the (oral) transmission of the biblical text
in late antiquity; the pre-Masoretic Babylonian vocalisation tradition; the formation of
the liturgy and the early development of the Jewish prayer book; the social locations of
biblical knowledge in late antique Babylonia and socio-religious typologies of the bowls;
and the dynamics of scriptural citation in ancient Jewish magic. In a number of cases, the
bowls also contain the earliest attestations of biblical verses not found in the Dead Sea
Scrolls. Pre-dating the next available evidence by four to five centuries, the bowls are a
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