Format:
1 online resource (391 pages)
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Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9783161564796
Series Statement:
Orientalische Religionen in der Antike 32
Content:
Cover -- Titel -- Table of Contents -- List of General Abbreviations Used Throughout the Volume -- Ljuba Merlina Bortolani/Svenja Nagel: Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Part I: Egyptian, Greek and Mesopotamian Traditions of Magic: Different Genres, Perception of the 'Other' and Possible Transcultural Exchange -- Franziska Naether: Magical Practices in Egyptian Literary Texts: in Quest of Cultural Plurality -- William D. Furley: Magic and Mystery at Selinus: Another Look at the Getty Hexameters -- Daniel Schwemer: Beyond Ereškigal? Mesopotamian Magic Traditions in the Papyri Graecae Magicae -- Part II: Cultural Plurality and Fusion in the Graeco-Egyptian Magical Papyri (PGM/PDM) -- Single Handbooks and Magical Techniques -- Richard Gordon: Compiling P. Lond. I 121 = PGM VII in a Transcultural Context -- Svenja Nagel: Illuminating Encounters: Reflections on Cultural Plurality in Lamp Divination Rituals -- Ljuba Merlina Bortolani: 'We Are Such Stuff as Dream Oracles Are Made on': Greek and Egyptian Traditions and Divine Personas in the Dream Divination Spells of the Magical Papyri -- Christopher A. Faraone: Cultural Plurality in Greek Magical Recipes for Oracular and Protective Statues -- Specific Spells and Deities -- Joachim Friedrich Quack: The Heliopolitan Ennead and Geb as a Scrofulous Boar in the PGM: Two Case Studies on Cultural Interaction in Late-Antique Magic -- Richard Phillips: Traditions of Transformation and Shape-Shifting in PGM XIII 270-77 -- Adria Haluszka: Crowns of Hermanubis: Semiotic Fusion and Spells for Better Business in the Magical Papyri -- Marcela Ristorto: Love Spell and Hymn to Aphrodite in PGM IV (2891-941) -- Part III: Integration and Transformation of Graeco-Egyptian Magic in Jewish and Byzantine Spells -- Gideon Bohak/Alessia Bellusci: The Greek Prayer to Helios in Sefer ha-Razim, in Light of New Textual Evidence.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783161564789
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Cultural plurality in ancient magical texts and practices Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2019 ISBN 9783161564789
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Ägypten
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Griechenland
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Magie
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Kulturkontakt
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Konferenzschrift
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Aufsatzsammlung
Author information:
Bortolani, Ljuba Merlina 1980-
Author information:
Furley, William D. 1953-
Author information:
Nagel, Svenja 1984-
Author information:
Quack, Joachim Friedrich 1966-
