Gideon Bohak: Hebrew, Hebrew Everywhere? Notes on the Interpretation of Voces Magicae

Gideon Bohak: Hebrew, Hebrew Everywhere? Notes on the Interpretation of Voces Magicae: "One of the most com-mon features of such studies is the recurrent attempt to find a Jewish origin for thisor that word and explain it, “etymologically,” by way of Hebrew or Aramaic.
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Thiserror is due in part to the scholarly refusal to accept the fact that the origins of many
voces
still elude us and to the desperation informing the attempts to find a solution,any solution, to a nagging crux. It is also due to the fact that some
voces,
as well asother elements of the “international” mixture of late antique magic, indeed are of demonstrably Jewish origins, and that the Jews had some reputation in antiquityfor dabbling in magic,"