translated with commentary by Michael A. Morgan
SBL Press, 1983
eISBN: 978-1-62837-266-3 | Paper: 978-0-89130-615-3
Library of Congress Classification BM525.A3712M67 1983
Dewey Decimal Classification 296.16

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Michael A. Morgan translates Mordecai Margaliath’s text of Sepher Ha-Razim, a fourth century CE magical text, into English. Sepher Ha-Razim includes a story about the book’s transmission from the angel Raziel to Noah eventually down to Solomon, six sections describing the nature, function, magical praxis and angelic inhabitants of six of the heavens, and the divine throne in the seventh heaven. With parallels to Talmudic passages, Enochic literature, and Hekhaloth literature, Sepher Ha-Razim sheds light on Greco-Roman magic in general and more specifically Jewish life in the early centuries CE.

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