{"id":2531,"date":"2014-09-25T00:03:56","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T00:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/?page_id=2531"},"modified":"2015-05-11T19:15:59","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T19:15:59","slug":"segol-2013-congress","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/abstracts\/segol-2013-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Segol (2013 Congress)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marla Segol<br \/>\n(<em>University of Buffalo<\/em>)<br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;Cosmogony, Astrology, and Power in the Late-Antique <em>Yotzer<\/em>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Abstract of Paper at the 48th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, 2013)<\/p>\n<p>Session on <strong>&#8220;Astrology and Magic&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\nSponsors: Societas Magica and the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence<br \/>\nOrganizer: David Porreca<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2013-international-congress-on-medieval-studies\/\"><strong>2013 Congress<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[<em>First published on our first website on 16 May 2013<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Yotzer<\/em> is a Hebrew poem of praise describing the divine creation of the universe and its order, often written for incorporation into the Jewish prayer service. &nbsp;The Jewish prayer service contains poems on three major themes, in this order: &nbsp;creation, love, and redemption. &nbsp;The \u201ccreation\u201d poems serve to identify God as the addressee of prayers, and to establish divine power. &nbsp;The \u201clove&#8221; prayers establish a relationship between the congregation (composed of individuals praying), and the redemption poems include the request for redemption. &nbsp;This occurs once the <em>Yotzer<\/em>  establishes divine power, and the \u2018love\u2019 poems situate it in the context of a human-divine relationship with obligations. &nbsp;Thus, the <em>Yotzer<\/em> poem uses cosmogonic and cosmological narrative, coupled with astrological images, to establish divine power and then to activate it in the form of theurgy. &nbsp;Interestingly, it is often the case that the <em>Yotzer<\/em> includes in the same poem divergent cosmogonic and cosmological accounts, which the author does not attempt to reconcile. <\/p>\n<p>In this paper I explore the question of the function of this diversity, and how it contributes to the theurgical goals of the recitation of the poem. &nbsp;Similarly, I seek better to understand the relation of the astrological images to the cosmogonic account. &nbsp;Do their significance and their power differ according to different versions of the creation story? &nbsp;In short, in this paper I explore the relation between cosmogony, astrology, and theurgy in the late antique <em>Yotzer<\/em> poems of Elazar ben Kallir and Yossi ben Yossi. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marla Segol (University of Buffalo) &#8220;Cosmogony, Astrology, and Power in the Late-Antique Yotzer&#8220; Abstract of Paper at the 48th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, 2013) Session on &#8220;Astrology and Magic&#8221; Sponsors: Societas Magica and the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence Organizer: David Porreca 2013 Congress [First published on our first website on 16 May [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1023,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2531"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2531"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4502,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2531\/revisions\/4502"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}