Wikimedia Commons

File:Exorcism prayer.jpg

Exorcism_prayer.jpg ‎(400 × 520 pixels, file size: 101 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary edit

Description
English: A document that details the prayers that were performed on Qamar bat Rahmah to try to rid her of the spirit of her dead husband, Nissim ben Bonia. According to the Hebrew text, the rabbis asked the ghost to “leave this woman, Qamar bat Rahmah, [and forgo] all authority and control that it has over her; and Nissim ben Bonia shall have no more authority and control whatsoever over Qamar bat Rahmah in any form or manner at all.”

The document was found in the abandoned recesses of the Cairo Geniza, a storeroom attached to a Cairo synagogue, and is believed to date to the 18th or 19th century. It is now kept in custody at the University of Manchester.

The document is unique in that it describes a real event, where you see how they come together and pray in order to exorcise the ghost from a widow.
Date 18th or 19th century, probably.
Source http://www.forward.com/articles/121177/ The Forward, December 25, 2009.
Author Unknown rabbi from Cairo.

Licensing edit

Public domain

This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or fewer.

You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States. Note that a few countries have copyright terms longer than 70 years: Mexico has 100 years, Jamaica has 95 years, Colombia has 80 years, and Guatemala and Samoa have 75 years. This image may not be in the public domain in these countries, which moreover do not implement the rule of the shorter term. Honduras has a general copyright term of 75 years, but it does implement the rule of the shorter term. Copyright may extend on works created by French who died for France in World War II (more information), Russians who served in the Eastern Front of World War II (known as the Great Patriotic War in Russia) and posthumously rehabilitated victims of Soviet repressions (more information).

This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current15:35, 21 December 2009Thumbnail for version as of 15:35, 21 December 2009400 × 520 (101 KB)Jonund (talk | contribs){{Information |Description={{en|1=A document that details the prayers that were performed on Qamar bat Rahmah to try to rid her of the spirit of her dead husband, Nissim ben Bonia. According to the Hebrew text, the rabbis asked the ghost to “leave this

You cannot overwrite this file.

There are no pages that use this file.

File usage on other wikis

Metadata

This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Exorcism_prayer.jpg&oldid=253148896"