The Sefer ha-Razim
- Date of account
- Late antiquity, probably 3rd–7th century; Hebrew witnesses later
- Location
- Land of Israel and the eastern Mediterranean
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
Sefer ha-Razim is a Hebrew magical text organized around heavenly firmaments, angels, divine names, and ritual instructions for purposes such as healing, protection, and divination. It is a significant source for the study of Jewish magic because it combines liturgical language with operational recipes and an elaborate celestial hierarchy. The surviving text is reconstructed from fragmentary manuscripts and later witnesses, and its composition history is debated. It should be approached as evidence for a historical ritual literature, not as confirmation that the prescribed angelic operations succeeded.
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