Sealing the Demons, Once and For All: The Ring of Solomon, the Cross of Christ, and the Power of Biblical Kingship

This paper traces the historical development of the tradition that King Solomon made use of a signet-ring to marshal the demons as a labor-force for the construction of the Jerusalem Temple and analyzes the shifting ritual uses to which this tradition was put.We argue that this tradition, which is m...

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Veröffentlicht in:Archiv für Religionsgeschichte 2015-11, Vol.16 (1), p.99-130
Hauptverfasser: Boustan, Raʿanan, Beshay, Michael
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Sprache:eng
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