Scholastic Magic Ritual and Revelation in Early Jewish Mysticism Korea Our ancestors taught of the

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Scholastic Magic Ritual and Revelation in Early Jewish Mysticism Korea Our ancestors taught of theIn exploring the social background of early Jewish mysticism, Scholastic Magic tells the story of how imagination and magic were made to serve memory and scholasticism. In the visionary literature that circulated between the fifth and ninth centuries, there are strange tales of ancient rabbis conjuring the angel known as Sar Torah, the "Prince of the Torah." This angel endowed the rabbis themselves with spectacular memory and skill in learning, and