James R Davila

Biographic Data

ID3831286
NAMEJames R Davila
GIVEN NAMESJames R
FAMILY NAMEDavila
SIGNATUREDAVILA J R
AFFILIATIONSCENTRAL COLLEGE, PELLA, IOWA, U.S.A.
ORCID0000-0002-6078-1086
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS3
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1991
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX1

  • Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman and Ancient Jewish Worlds

    Open AccessJames R DavilaARTICLEGnosis2022

    In Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World , Radcliffe Edmonds provides us with a new etic framework for understanding ancient magic, but one steeped in the emic perspectives of the actual practitioners and clients as preserved in the literary, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence. In this paper I examine Edmonds’s findings in relation to the ancient Jewish magical and mystical traditions found mainly in Sefer HaRazim , “…

  • Angels Associated with Israel in the Dead Sea Scrolls

    James R DavilaARTICLEDead Sea Discoveries2021

  • Hekhalot Literature in Translation

    James R Davila, James DavilaBOOKHekhalot literature in translation2013

    The Hekhalot literature is a motley collection of textually fluid and often textually corrupt documents in Hebrew and Aramaic which deal with mystical themes pertaining especially to God's throne-chariot (the Merkavah). They were composed between late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, with roots in earlier traditions and a long and complex subsequent history of transmission. This volume presents English translations of eclectic critical texts,…

  • The Provenance of the Pseudepigrapha

    James R Davila, James DavilaBOOKThe Provenance of the Pseudepigraph…2005

    The Old Testament pseudepigrapha are ancient quasi-biblical texts inspired by the Hebrew Bible. Although frequently mined as Jewish background by New Testament specialists, they were transmitted almost entirely in Christian circles, often only in translation. Christian authors wrote some pseudepigrapha and did not necessarily always mention explicitly Christian topics. This book challenges the assumption that pseudepigrapha are Jewish composition…

  • The Bible at Qumran

    Wido Van Peursen, W Th Van Peursen et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…2002

  • Magische Texte aus der Kairoer Geniza, Vol. 1

    James R Davila, Peter Schafer et al.ARTICLEThe Jewish Quarterly Review1996Cited by: 2

  • The Flood Hero as King and Priest

    James R DavilaARTICLEJournal of Near Eastern Studies1995Cited by: 1

  • Prolegomena to a Critical Edition of the Hekhalot Rabbati

    James R DavilaARTICLEJournal of Jewish Studies1994

    Le point focal de cet article est le probleme de la production des editions critiques de la litterature d'Hekhalot. Les tentatives synoptiques n'ont pas ete satisfaisantes. L'A. se limite a un seul document tire du Corpus d'Hekhalot et connu aujourd'hui sous le titre de Hehkalot Rabbati. Travaillant sur ce texte, il etablit un texte critique reconstruit et eclectique. Le texte etabli et critique est ensuite traduit et longuement commente pour en …

  • The Throne of ʿAshtart Inscription

    James R Davila, Bruce ZuckermanARTICLEBulletin of the American Schools…1993

    The Throne of ʿAshtart is a small cherub throne carved from rough limestone and dating from the third or second century B. C. E. It was discovered in the vicinity of Tyre around 1907. A two-line inscription is carved on the front of the base. This inscription dedicates the throne to the goddess ʿAshtart. Until 1983, there existed no clear photographic documentation of the inscription. New photographs, published here for the first time, have promp…

  • Qoheleth's Language

    James R Davila, Daniel C FredericksARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1991

    This study argues that when comparisons with Mishnaic Hebrew, late biblical Hebrew, Aramaic, and Canaanite-Phoenician are submitted to reliable methodology, the late date of Qoheleth's composition becomes less probable since the language shows itself to be basically classical