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Article: Between Worlds: Dybbuks, Exorcists, and Early Modern Judaism.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- March 22, 2006
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J. H. Chajes. Between Worlds: Dybbuks, Exorcists, and Early Modern Judaism.
Jewish Culture and Contexts. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. 278 pp. index. append. bibl. $36.50. ISBN: 0-8122-3724-2.
In early modern culture, noteworthy attention was devoted to the metaphysical world thanks to the retrieval of Platonic and Neoplatonic thought due to Ficino's translation. As D. P. Walker and other scholars show, concerns about spiritual and demonic religion and magic were pervasive in Christian culture: the existence of demons was the proof of the existence of God and justified the whole system based on punishment and rewards that the ...
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