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God's Names and Their Uses in the Books of Magic Attributed to King Solomon
- Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 5, Number 1, Summer 2010
- pp. 30-50
- 10.1353/mrw.0.0165
- Article
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A number of medieval texts of learned magic deriving from different cultural contexts (Latin and Greek Christian, Jewish, Muslim) are attributed to King Solomon. This article examines frequency of use of a number of divine names in this corpus, with focus on what names are used, how they are employed, and how this usage is connected to the original cultural context of a text.