Unveiling the Hidden—Anticipating the Future: Divinatory Practices Among Jews Between Qumran and the Modern Period

Product Description
Unveiling the HiddenAnticipating the Future investigates the Jewish components of Jewish divination, showing practitioners and their practices within their cultural and intellectual contexts, along with their fears, wishes, and anxieties, drawing from original sources in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Judaeo-Arabic.
Review
"This is a groundbreaking collection of papers on different aspects of divination in the Jewish world that provide vivid testimony to the popularity of divination among Jews and excellent starting points for the study of the social locations of diviners within Jewish society. Thus, this book seeks to establish Jewish divination as an important field of study, and does so in a remarkably successful manner."- Gideon Bohak,
Tel Aviv University
"This collection of excellent studies written by outstanding scholars intheir fields fills a real gap and sheds new light on both the history of divination as
practiced by Jews (and as documented in texts partly edited for the first time in this volume), and on the intricate religious, legal, philosophical and epistemological problems that arise from it on the
theoretical scale." - Reimund Leicht,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
About the Author
Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas (Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität, Münster) has written articles and chapters on medieval astronomy and divination. She is the author of
El cielo de Sefarad: los judíos y los astros (El Almendro 2011) and co-editor of
Astrolabes in Medieval Cultures (Brill 2017 and 2019).

Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum (University of Wales Trinity Saint David) is the author of
The Daimon in Hellenistic Astrology: Origins and Influence (Brill 2016) and has written numerous articles on the history, theory and practice of astrology, divination, and ancient medicine.