Workshop: “JLib meets MagEIA”
| Datum: | 26.05.2026, 09:00 - 27.05.2026, 17:30 Uhr |
| Veranstalter: | MagEIA, MagEIA |
Former MagEIA fellow Gideon Bohak and his team from the ERC project "The Jewish Library in Late Antiquity" from Tel Aviv University join the MagEIA group for two days of talks and discussions about their current research topics including studies on ancient and medieval archives, incantation bowls, assistants in magical practices and features of magical language use.
Tuesday, May 26
| Section 1: archives | |
| 9.00 - 9.45 | G. Bohak: “The Jewish Library in Late Antiquity” |
| 9.45 - 10.30 | D. Baratz: “Jewish Proverb Collections from the Geniza” |
| 10.30 - 11.00 | Coffee break |
| Section 2: health and travel | |
| 11.00 - 11.45 | N. Darabian: “Judeo-Persian Healing Recipes among Persian Jews” |
| 11.45 - 12.30 | G. Wiesner Lavee: “Protection for Travel and for Good Health in Rabbinic Literature” |
| 12.30 - 14.00 | Lunch break |
| Section 3: bowls and archives | |
| 14.00 - 14.45 | R. Bélanger Sarrazin: “The ‘Wizard’s Hoard’: Deciphering a Coptic Magical Archive" |
| 14.45 - 15.30 | O. Abudraham: “On Mandaean Influence in Selected Jewish Incantation Bowls" (via Zoom) |
| 15.30 - 16.00 | Coffee break |
| Section 4: places and spaces | |
| 16.00 - 16.45 | S. Schiødt: “Harnessing the Natural World: Landscapes and Places in Ancient Egyptian Magic” |
| 16.45 - 17.30 | D. Schwemer, M. Stadler, D. Kölligan: The MagEIA Project |
Wednesday, May 27
| Section 5: helpers | |
| 9.00 - 9.45 | M. Chiara de Pascali: “The working dead: turning Mesopotamian ghosts into powerful assistants” |
| 9.45 - 10.30 | A. Cherkashina: “The Syriac Versions of St Sisinnius’ Legend” |
| 10.30 - 11.00 | Coffee break |
| Section 6: bowls and archives 2 | |
| 11.00 - 11.45 | A. Wiener: “Use and Reuse: Primary and Secondary Use in Multiple Texts Fragments from the Cairo Geniza with Magical and Divinatory Contents” |
| 11.45 - 12.30 | M. Barak Maor: “Social History of Women, Gender and Family Dynamics in the Jewish Aramaic Incantation Bowls” |
| 12.30 - 14.00 | Lunch break |
| Section 7: the language of magic | |
| 14.00 - 14.45 | Th. Venturott: “The apa-yaj-construction in magical texts” |
| 14.45 - 15.30 | R. Englberger: “Formularity in PGM” |
| 15.30 - 16.00 | Coffee break |
| Section 8: bowls and Liliths | |
| 16.00 - 16.45 | Y. Marmor: “‘Be under the Ban of Rabbi Aḥa son of Rabbi Ḥanilay’ – Three Unpublished Jewish Babylonian Aramaic Incantation Bowls” (via Zoom) |
| 16.46 - 17.30 | M. Barkowsky: "Before Lilith: The Mesopotamian Ritual Series Eṭel Lilî, Ardat Lilî" |
