id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
grbs-12541	Goodenough, E. Rowan	A Jewish-Gnostic Amulet of the Roman Period	1958	10	.pdf	application/pdf	3485	169	71	One working with charms and amulets is constantly annoyed by strings of meaningless letters, which one usually calls magical vowels, letters, or, in desperation, gibberish. These apparently represent the sun and moon, with the skin for shemesh, sun, and the cheth for chodesh, new moon, that aspect of the moon especially important in Jewish life.	cache/grbs-12541.pdf	txt/grbs-12541.txt