Unveiling the Hidden—Anticipating the Future

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.

Acknowledgments

List of Figures and Tables

Table for the Transliteration of the Hebrew Characters

Table for the Transliteration of the Arabic Characters

Notes on the Contributors



Introductory Essay: Divination in Jewish Cultures—Some Reflections on the Subject of This Book

 Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas



1 Divination as Transaction: Rhetorical and Social Dimensions of Ancient Jewish Divination Texts

 Michael D. Swartz



2 Aramaic Calendars and the Question of Divination in Late Second Temple Judaism

 Helen R. Jacobus



3 Jewish Oneiric Divination: From Daniel’s Prayer to the Genizah Šeʾelat Ḥalom

 Alessia Bellusci



4 Dream Interpretation Reinterpreted in the Light of Judaeo-Arabic Fragments Attributed to Ḥai Gaon

 Blanca Villuendas Sabaté



5 If You Seek to Take Advice from the Torah, It Will Be Given—Jewish Bibliomancy through the Generations

 Shraga Bar-On



6 Judah bar Barzillai and His Role in Abraham bar Ḥiyya’s Letter on Astrology

 Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas



7 Abraham bar Ḥiyya’s Letter to Judah bar Barzillai—Translation

 Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas and Amos Geula



8 Maimonides on Magic, Astral Magic and Experimental Science

 Dov Schwartz



9 On the Various Faces of Hebrew Physiognomy as a Prognostic Art in the Middle Ages

 Joseph Ziegler



10 Inscriptio characterum: Solomonic Magic and Palaeography. With an Appendix on the Making of the Grimoire by Nicholas Pickwoad

 Charles Burnett



Bibliography

Index of Names (People, Places, and Texts)

Index of Quotations and Citations of Biblical, Pseudepigrapha, Qumran, and Rabbinic Texts

Index of Subjects