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120 | About the Author Michael D. Swartz is Professor of Hebrew and Religious Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and at the Melton Center for Jewish Studies at Ohio State University. His books include Scholastic Magic: Ritual and Revelation in Early Jewish Mysticism; Mystical Prayer in Ancient Judaism: An Analysis of Ma’aseh Merkavah; Avodah: Ancient Poems for Yom Kippur (with Joseph Yahalom); and Hebrew and Aramaic Incantation Texts from the Cairo Genizah: Selected Texts from Taylor-Schechter Box K1 (with Lawrence H. Schiffman). He also served as the associate editor for Judaica for the second edition of the Encyclopedia of Religion. ...

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