{"id":32395,"date":"2015-11-16T13:23:17","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T18:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=32395"},"modified":"2015-11-16T13:23:17","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T18:23:17","slug":"magic-bowls-at-aarsbl15-in-atlanta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/11\/magic-bowls-at-aarsbl15-in-atlanta.html","title":{"rendered":"Magic Bowls at #AARSBL15 in Atlanta"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>For those interested in Judaism, Mandaeism, Late Antiquity, ancient magic, Aramaic, and any number of other topics, there are two sessions at AAR this year that you ought not to miss. One is the Traditions of Eastern Late Antiquity session, about which I\u2019ll include details further below. But the other is a session which will feature some actual magic bowls on display. I\u2019m concerned that some might miss this rather unique opportunity, and so I thought I should highlight it here on my blog. Here are the details:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>A22-401<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Arts Series<\/p>\n<p><strong>Theme: Arti-Facts\/Divorcing the Demons: A Collaborative Gallery Installation and Storytelling Performance with Babylonian Incantation Bowls<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday \u2013 8:00 PM-9:30 PM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Marriott-Imperial A (Marquis Level)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During Late Antiquity in Babylonia, under Zoroastrian-Sassanian rule, a variety of different faith communities shared a ritual to expel demons from their domestic environments. Although there are few clues as to the actual process, inscribed earthenware vessels were deliberately buried in thresholds, interior rooms, and cemeteries from the 5th-late 7th Centuries CE. Over 2000 examples of ceramic vessels with texts (almost all bowls, with an amphora and a goblet) have been unearthed since the late 19th Century. Thus far, only a few hundred have been translated and published.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-19175\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2013\/11\/mandaean-bowl.jpg\" alt=\"mandaean bowl\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\">The predominant script used on these \u201cmagic\u201d bowls is Judeo-Aramaic, used mostly by the literate Jewish community of the time. Other scripts are also in evidence: Mandaic from the religious group, Mandaeans, and a few examples in Syriac from the Christian community. Also found were \u201cfake\u201d bowls that have scribbles instead of actual text perhaps indicating illiterate magicians and\/or illiterate clients!<\/p>\n<p>Once all of these groups lived together and shared a ritual that might just help today: expelling the demons that plague us all.<\/p>\n<p>The bowl texts name specific clients, representing all of the religious groups, seeking respite from discord. In many cases, the inscriptions address specific demons suspected of causing strife The singular bowls were then buried inverted. There is another category of bowls that seems somewhat distinct. Two bowls of the same diameter and rounded on the bottoms, with similar texts spiraling inside each of the pair, were fixed together with bitumen (asphalt) and cord. The texts of these are curses requesting that the evil acts return upon the perpetrator. Dan Levene, a prominent British scholar working with these artifacts, hypothesizes that these are not aimed at demons, but instead at a particular human who was manipulating the evil actions at the client.<\/p>\n<p>Past and present, human communities share similar anxieties. The list might include disease, dangers in childbirth, loss of livelihood, familial discord, war, famine. One might add arrogance, violence, senseless hatred, hypocrisy, stupidity, and malice to our contemporary anxieties. As artists and scholars, we view the ancient act of sharing a ritual across faith traditions as one worth reconsidering for the present. And so we present this exhibition and storytelling performance as a beginning of this reconsideration.<\/p>\n<p>Panelists:<\/p>\n<p>Laurel Robinson, Georgia Southwestern State University<\/p>\n<p>Keaton Wynn, Georgia Southwestern State University<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Rosenberg, Chicago, IL<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And here are the details about the TELA (Traditions of Eastern Late Antiquity) session:<\/p>\n<div id=\"session-container-46782\" class=\"collapsible collapse-open\" style=\"color: #565347\">\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"field field-field_aid_value_1\" style=\"font-style: italic\"><strong>A22-233<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-tid\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-title_2\"><strong>Traditions of Eastern Late Antiquity Group<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-title\"><strong><span class=\"label\">Theme:<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"content\" style=\"font-style: italic\">Bordering Others: Examining Religious Community in Eastern Late Antiquity<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-field_session_participants_first_name\">\n<div class=\"participant panelist\">James McGrath, Butler University, Presiding<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"container\" style=\"color: #565347\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"field field-field_session_slot_nid\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">Sunday \u2013 1:00 PM-2:30 PM<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-field_session_room_nid\" style=\"font-style: italic\"><strong>Hilton-211 (Level 2)<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-field_session_abstract_value\">\n<p>This session provides a place for a variety of papers and scholars to meet who are interested in the diversity of religious community in the Late Ancient East (Eastern Roman Empire through China).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"session-46782-paper-container-0\" class=\"collapsible collapse-close\">\n<div class=\"field field-field_session_participants_first_name_4\">\n<div class=\"participant author\">Jennifer Hart, Elon University<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-title_1\" style=\"font-style: italic\"><i>Fixing Ritual to Fix Community: Using Orthopraxy to Define \u201cTrue\u201d Mandaeism<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"session-46782-paper-container-1\" class=\"collapsible collapse-close\">\n<div class=\"field field-field_session_participants_first_name_4\">\n<div class=\"participant author\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"participant author\">Scott McDonough, William Paterson University<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-title_1\" style=\"font-style: italic\"><i>\u201c\u2026And No Trace Left of Their Bones\u201d: Conversion and Continuity in Early Armenian Christianity<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"session-46782-paper-container-2\" class=\"collapsible collapse-close\">\n<div class=\"field field-field_session_participants_first_name_4\">\n<div class=\"participant author\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"participant author\">Sara Ronis, Harvard University<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-title_1\" style=\"font-style: italic\"><i>Seeing the Other in Sasanian Babylonia<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"session-46782-paper-container-3\" class=\"collapsible collapse-close\">\n<div class=\"field field-field_session_participants_first_name_4\">\n<div class=\"participant author\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"participant author\">Christina Grobmeier, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-title_1\" style=\"font-style: italic\"><i>Don\u2019t Bowl Me Over: An Examination of Aramaic Curse Bowls and the Suba Cave Inscriptions<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"session-46782-paper-container-4\" class=\"collapsible collapse-close\">\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"field field-field_session_participants_first_name_4\">\n<div class=\"participant author\">\n<p>Todd Godwin, School of Oriental and African Studies, London<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-title_1\" style=\"font-style: italic\"><i>The Word \u201cTajik\u201d\/\u201dDaqing\u201d in Chinese Sources and What It Tells Us about the Islamicization of Central Asia during the Early Abbasid Caliphate<\/i><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"field field-title_1\">Don\u2019t miss the two other TELA co-sponsored sessions too:<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-title_1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-title_1\">\n<div id=\"session-container-47180\" class=\"collapsible collapse-open\">\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"field field-field_aid_value_1\" style=\"font-style: italic\"><strong>A20-200<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-tid\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-title_2\"><strong>Traditions of Eastern Late Antiquity Group and IQSA Qur\u2019an and Late Antiquity Group<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-title\"><strong><span class=\"label\">Theme:<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"content\" style=\"font-style: italic\">Towards a \u201cLong Late Antiquity\u201d: Continuities from the Pre-Islamic to the Islamic Era<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-field_session_participants_first_name\">\n<div class=\"participant panelist\">Michael Pregill, Boston University, Presiding<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"field field-field_session_slot_nid\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">Friday \u2013 1:00 PM-3:30 PM<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-field_session_room_nid\" style=\"font-style: italic\">Marriott-M104 (Marquis Level)<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-field_session_abstract_value\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"session-47180-paper-container-0\" class=\"collapsible collapse-close\">\n<div class=\"field field-field_session_participants_first_name_4\">\n<div class=\"participant author\">Emran El-Badawi, University of Houston<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-title_1\" style=\"font-style: italic\"><i>Law and Tradition in the Long Seventh Century (570-705): Between Qur\u2019an and Church Canon<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"session-47180-paper-container-1\" class=\"collapsible collapse-close\">\n<div class=\"field field-field_session_participants_first_name_4\">\n<div class=\"participant author\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"participant author\">Walter Ward, University of Alabama, Brimingham<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-title_1\" style=\"font-style: italic\"><i>The Pre-Islamic Image of the Word \u201cSaracen\u201d and Its Implications for Early Christian and Islamic Interactions<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"session-47180-paper-container-2\" class=\"collapsible collapse-close\">\n<div class=\"field field-field_session_participants_first_name_4\">\n<div class=\"participant author\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"participant author\">Cecilia Palombo, Princeton University<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-title_1\" style=\"font-style: italic\"><i>\u201cWhy Do the Rabbis and Religious Authorities Not Forbid Them from Uttering Sinful Words?\u201d: Qur\u2019anic and Late Antique Attitudes towards Religious Scholars<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"session-47180-paper-container-3\" class=\"collapsible collapse-close\">\n<div class=\"field field-field_session_participants_first_name_4\">\n<div class=\"participant author\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"participant author\">Mushegh Asatryan, University of Calgary<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-title_1\" style=\"font-style: italic\"><i>Is Ghulat Religion Islamic Gnosticism? The Shi\u2019ite \u201cExtremists\u201d of Early Islamic Iraq<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"session-47180-paper-container-4\" class=\"collapsible collapse-close\">\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"field field-field_session_participants_first_name_4\">\n<div class=\"participant author\">Dylan Burns, Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-title_1\" style=\"font-style: italic\"><i>Is Ghulat Religion Islamic Gnosticism? Syro-Mesopotamian Gnostic Traditions<\/i><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-title_1\" style=\"font-style: italic\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-title_1\" style=\"font-style: italic\">\n<div id=\"session-container-46841\" class=\"collapsible collapse-open\">\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"field field-field_aid_value_1\"><strong>A23-237<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-tid\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-title_2\"><strong>Traditions of Eastern Late Antiquity Group and SBL Religious World of Late Antiquity Group<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-title\"><strong><span class=\"label\">Theme:<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"content\">\u201cChristianization\u201d and \u201cIslamization\u201d: Terminologies, Categories, Case Studies<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-field_session_participants_first_name\">\n<div class=\"participant panelist\">Wendy Mayer, Australian Catholic University, Presiding<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"field field-field_session_slot_nid\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">Monday \u2013 1:00 PM-3:30 PM<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-field_session_room_nid\">Marriott-A702 (Atrium Level)<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-field_session_abstract_value\">\n<p>Nathan Schumer, Columbia University<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"session-46841-paper-container-0\" class=\"collapsible collapse-close\">\n<div class=\"field field-title_1\"><i>Disaster and Christianization: The Earthquake of 363 CE and the Christianization of the Cities of Roman Palestine<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"session-46841-paper-container-1\" class=\"collapsible collapse-close\">\n<div class=\"field field-field_session_participants_first_name_4\">\n<div class=\"participant author\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"participant author\">Adam Bursi, Cornell University<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-title_1\"><i>\u201cSprinkle the Place with This Water\u201d: Christianization and Islamification of Religious Space in Late Antiquity<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"session-46841-paper-container-2\" class=\"collapsible collapse-close\">\n<div class=\"field field-field_session_participants_first_name_4\">\n<div class=\"participant author\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"participant author\">Rebecca Falcasantos, Providence College<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-title_1\"><i>By the World Forgot: Sabbatians and the Manipulation of Memory in Fifth-Century Constantinople<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"session-46841-paper-container-3\" class=\"collapsible collapse-close\">\n<div class=\"field field-field_session_participants_first_name_4\">\n<div class=\"participant author\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"participant author\">John Zaleski, Harvard University<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-title_1\"><i>Forming a Muslim Understanding of Celibacy: The Case of al-Junayd al-Baghdadi<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"session-46841-paper-container-4\" class=\"collapsible collapse-close\">\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"field field-field_session_participants_first_name_4\">\n<div class=\"participant author\">Jessica Lee Ehinger, University of Oxford<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-title_1\"><i>Living and Dying a Christian under Islam: Martyrologies and the Islamification of Late Antique Palestine<\/i><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"field field-title_1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-title_1\" style=\"font-style: italic\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-26650 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/10\/Magic-Bowl.jpg\" alt=\"Magic Bowl\" width=\"365\" height=\"274\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those interested in Judaism, Mandaeism, Late Antiquity, ancient magic, Aramaic, and any number of other topics, there are two sessions at AAR this year that you ought not to miss. 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