Title: The materiality of power
Description: "Were there countervailing cosmic realms ruled by Yahweh and Asherah in late pre-exilic Israel? Brian B. Schmidt presents five case studies corroborating the existence of a daimonic realm replete with intermediary protecticve spirits and a pandemonium that wreaked havoc upon both the living and dead. Having converged with Egypt's protective deities Bes and Beset,  YHWH and Asherah also possessed the enhanced powers to govern a counteractive apotropaic realm from which Asherah mediated divine portections for humanity." -- bck cover
Subjects: Jewish magic, Magic, Biblical teaching, Ancient Magic, Jews, Social life and customs, Antiquities, Goden, Demonologie, Jews, social life and customs, Palestine, antiquities, Bible teaching, History, Amulets (Judaism)
Places: Palestine, Middle East
Time periods: To 70 A.D.