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Talmud su Deuteronomio 18:11

וְחֹבֵ֖ר חָ֑בֶר וְשֹׁאֵ֥ל אוֹב֙ וְיִדְּעֹנִ֔י וְדֹרֵ֖שׁ אֶל־הַמֵּתִֽים׃

o un incantatore, o uno che consulta un fantasma o uno spirito familiare, o un negromante.

Jerusalem Talmud Sanhedrin

“The necromancer is the πύθων285Πύθων, -ωνος, ὁ, “the serpent Python”, a spirit of divination. The plural πύθωνες “ventriloquists”. and one who286In the Babli and the independent Mishnah mss: the Πύθων who speaks from his armpit. speaks from his armpit. The medium58Lev. 20:27. The necromancer is the person who raises the spirits of the dead; cf. 1S. 28. The medium is one who incorporates a spirit which predicts the future, speaking from the medium’s body, not his mouth. speaks through his mouth. These are stoned but one who consults them is forewarned287While turning to necromancers and fortune-tellers is repeatedly forbidden (Lev. 19:31, Deut. 18:10–11), no punishment is spelled out in the biblical text.. And one who asks the dead332Deut. 18:11. No criminal sanction is spelled out for this.. 333Tosephta 10:7, explaining the term “interrogating the dead”. In the Babli, 65b, the same baraita explains the term “necromancer”. Some Tannaïm state: this is one who interrogates a skull. Some Tannaïm state: this is one who interrogates his334,The dead.173The form זְכוּר denotes, if not the penis, then the male as appendix to his sex organ. masculinity. What is the difference between one interrogated by his skull or one raised by his masculinity? The one interrogated by his skull rises normally, rises on the Sabbath, and a commoner can raise a king. But one raised by his masculinity does not rise normally335The dead appears feet up, head down., does not rise on the Sabbath, and a commoner cannot raise a king.
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