Format:
1 Online-Ressource (vii, 476 pages)
,
illustrations
ISBN:
9789004283817
Series Statement:
Religions in the Graeco-Roman world v. 129
Content:
Preliminary material /Marvin Meyer and Paul Mirecki -- INTRODUCTION /Marvin Meyer and Paul Mirecki -- TRADING PLACES /Jonathan Z. Smith -- EXCLUDING THE CHARMING: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE GREEK CONCEPT OF MAGIC /Fritz Graf -- THE RELIGIOUS, SOCIAL, AND LEGAL PARAMETERS OF TRADITIONAL EGYPTIAN MAGIC /Robert K. Ritner -- HITTITE MILITARY RITUALS /Richard H. Beal -- RITUAL MEALS IN THE HITTITE CULT /Billie Jean Collins -- MAGICAL USES OF ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIAN FESTIVALS OF THE DEAD /J. A. Scurlock -- THE \'WITCH\' OF EN-DOR, 1 SAMUEL 28, AND ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN NECROMANCY /Brian B. Schmidt -- THE MAGICIAN AS OUTSIDER IN THE HEBREW BIBLE AND THE NEW TESTAMENT /Stephen D. Ricks -- CHARMING CRIMINALS: CLASSIFICATION OF MAGIC IN THE BABYLONIAN TALMUD /Jonathan Seidel -- MAGICAL PIETY IN ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL JUDAISM /Michael D. Swartz -- THE ADJURATION OF THE PRINCE OF THE PRESENCE: PERFORMATIVE UTTERANCE IN A JEWISH RITUAL /Rebecca Lesses -- NEW GREEK MAGICAL AND DIVINATORY TEXTS IN BERLIN /William M. Brashear -- GREEK EXORCISTIC AMULETS /Roy Kotansky -- SUPERNATURAL ASSISTANTS IN THE GREEK MAGICAL PAPYRI /Leda Jean Ciraolo -- THE MYSTODOKOS AND THE DARK-EYED MAIDENS: MULTICULTURAL INFLUENCES ON A LATE-HELLENISTIC INCANTATION /Christopher A. Faraone -- \'MAY SHE NEITHER EAT NOR DRINK\': LOVE MAGIC AND VOWS OF ABSTINENCE /David Martinez -- DEFINING THE DREADFUL: REMARKS ON THE GREEK CHILD-KILLING DEMON /Sarah Iles Johnston -- SINGING AWAY SNAKEBITE: LUCAN'S MAGICAL CURES /Oliver Phillips -- SATAN'S FALL IN COPTIC MAGIC /Jacques van der Vliet -- MAGICAL BOWLS AND MANICHAEANS /Jason David BeDuhn -- MAGIC, WOMEN, AND HERESY IN THE LATE EMPIRE: THE CASE OF THE PRISCILLIANISTS /Todd Breyfogle -- NARRATING POWER: THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF THE MAGICAL HISTORIOLA IN RITUAL SPELLS /David Frankfurter -- PLATES: NEW GREEK MAGICAL AND DIVINATORY TEXTS IN BERLIN /Marvin Meyer and Paul Mirecki.
Content:
This volume contains a series of provocative essays that explore expressions of magic and ritual power in the ancient world. The essays are authored by leading scholars in the fields of Egyptology, ancient Near Eastern studies, the Hebrew Bible, Judaica, classical Greek and Roman studies, early Christianity and patristics, and Coptology. Throughout the book the essays examine the terms employed in descriptions of ancient magic. From this examination comes a clarification of magic as a polemical term of exclusion but also an understanding of the classical Egyptian and early Greek conceptions of magic as a more neutral category of inclusion. This book should prove to be foundational for future scholarly studies of ancient magic and ritual power. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 8-10)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004104068
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Ancient magic and ritual power Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1995
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Ancient magic and ritual power Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1995
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Ancient magic and ritual power Leiden [u.a.] : Brill, 1995 ISBN 9004104062
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
,
Theology
,
Ancient Studies
Keywords:
Magie
;
Geschichte
;
Altertum
;
Magie
;
Religion
;
Römisches Reich
;
Hellenismus
;
Konferenzschrift
DOI:
10.1163/9789004283817
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