Andrew C. Skinner

Andrew C. Skinner is an award-winning professor of Ancient Scripture and Near Eastern Studies at BYU. He is the author or co-author of 20 books, including Discoveries in the Judaea Desert, Unidentified Fragments from Cave 4 (Oxford), and most recently, To Become Like God: Witnesses of our Divine Potential (Deseret Book). He has also edited 6 books and published over 100 articles on religious and historical topics. He served as Dean of Religious Education and founding director of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at BYU. He currently serves on the board of directors of the Dead Sea Scrolls Foundation. He is married to Janet Corbridge Skinner and they have 6 children and 9 grandchildren.

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Medieval Christian Views of Hebrew
as the Language of Magic

by Andrew C. Skinner | undefined 41 | 12-28-2020

Abstract: The view of Hebrew as a language of magic, for which precedents can be discerned in the Bible and in rabbinic tradition, spilled over into early and medieval Christianity. Andrew Skinner adroitly explores the material and theological history of this trajectory, showing how this contributed to the emergence of Christian Kabbalah in the sixteenth […]

Medieval Christian Views of Hebrew
as the Language of Magic

by Andrew C. Skinner | 12-28-2020

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