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Tupa Guerra

I am a historian and demonologist. I graduated in 2010 in History at the Universidade de Brasilia- BR. My masters, from 2012, is also from the Universidade de Brasilia and I focused on the Book of Tobit and the dangers of the first night of the weeding. I have a PhD from the University of Birmingham-UK focused on evil creatures, demons and magic in the Dead Sea Scrolls. I moved back to Brazil at the beginning of 2018 and have been working on topics of Jewish magic, textual magic, demonology and on ways to popularize academic knowledge, particularly through podcasts.

email: tupa.guerra@gmail.com

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Revista Archai

O problema de como se proteger do mal é um tema recorrente em diversos períodos históricos e soci... more O problema de como se proteger do mal é um tema recorrente em diversos períodos históricos e sociedades. Textos apotropaicos judaicos, particularmente no período do Segundo Templo, trazem uma variedade de linguagens associadas com proteção. Esse artigo mapeia as diferentes linguagens apotropaicas descritas nos Manuscritos do Mar Morto, com enfoque para o uso da escrita como forma de registrar e preservar orações.

Revista Archai, 2022

The problem of how to protect yourself from harm is a recurrent theme in many historical periods and societies. Jewish apotropaic texts, particularly in the Second Temple period, bring a variety of languages associated with protection. This article delineates the different apotropaic languages described in the Dead Sea Scrolls, focusing on the use of writing as a way of recording and preserving prayers.

The Dead Sea Scrolls are one of the biggest archaeological findings of the 20th century, and the ... more The Dead Sea Scrolls are one of the biggest archaeological findings of the 20th century, and the full corpus has only recently been published. This group of over 900 texts deals with a wide variety of themes, many of them still underexplored. Among these texts it is possible to find references to evil forces and/or evil creatures.
The representation of evil in this context is plural and diverse. The popular term “demon” is not the best approach to the complex panorama presented. This paper proposes to examine the relation between feminine and evil creatures in the Dead
Sea Scrolls more closely. My analysis will focus on a selection of primary evidence, with particular attention to the Community Rule and the Damascus Document.

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Este paper traz uma breve análise sobre os relatos de dois importantes, e de certa forma antagôni... more Este paper traz uma breve análise sobre os relatos de dois importantes, e de certa forma antagônicos, personagens do séc. I d.C.: o rabino Iohanan ben Zakkai e o historiador Flávio Josefo. Para tanto é importante perceber o que

Masters Dissertation by Tupa Guerra

ABSTRACT This dissertation deals with a particular aspect of the Book of Tobit: the danger that t... more ABSTRACT
This dissertation deals with a particular aspect of the Book of Tobit: the danger that the groom runs on the first night of his wedding. The main objective of this study is to understand how this subject is presented in the Book of Tobit and, from the elements observed in the analysis, to seek the possible origin of this complex for the text in question, whether it is Jewish or not.

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Esta dissertação trata de um aspecto particular do Livro de Tobias: o perigo que o noivo corre na primeira noite de seu casamento. O principal objetivo deste trabalho é compreender como o tema é apresentado no Livro de Tobias e, a partir dos elementos observados na análise, buscar sua possível origem para o texto em questão, seja ela judaica ou não.

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