The Sword of Moses – translated Dr. Moses Gaster (Weiser)

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A landmark work of Jewish magical scholarship. First published by the eminent Romanian-British scholar Dr. Moses Gaster in London in 1896, this edition presents his translation and commentary on a 13th–14th century Hebrew grimoire — one Gaster himself believed preserved material dating back to the 4th–11th centuries CE. Drawn from a unique manuscript in Gaster’s own collection (now held in the British Library), the text contains an extraordinary array of spells, amulets, and invocations for protection, healing, and power, alongside the original Hebrew and an index of mystical names. This handsome Weiser hardcover reprint, bound in purple faux leather with gilt titling, brought Gaster’s pioneering scholarship back into circulation for a new generation of students of Solomonic and Judaic magic.