Gideon Bohak
Gideon Bohak
Gideon Bohak is a professor at the Department of Jewish Culture and the Program in Religious Studies at Tel-Aviv University. His extensive publications in the field of Jewish magic include “Catching a Thief: The Jewish Trials of a Christian Ordeal” (Jewish Studies Quarterly, 2006), Ancient Jewish Magic: A History (Cambridge University Press, 2008), and “Prolegomena to the Study of the Jewish Magical Tradition” (Currents in Biblical Literature, 2009).
Magic in the First-Century World
In the first century C.E., the line between magic, medicine, and miracles was often blurred.