Magic and ritual in the ancient world /
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Religions in the Graeco-Roman world,
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Call Number: BF1591 .M344 2002
Table of Contents:
- •Introduction •A New Magical Formulary •Two Papyri with Formulae for Divination •An Early Christian Gold Lamella for Headache •A Seventh-Century Coptic Limestone in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Bodl. copt. inscr. 426) •Great Scott! Thought and Action One More Time •Theories of Magic in Antiquity •The Poetics of the Magical Charm: An Essay on the Power of Words •Dynamics of Ritual Expertise in Antiquity and Beyond: Towards a New Taxonomy of "Magicians" •Fiat Magia •Dividing a God •Translating Transfers in Ancient Mesopotamia •Necromancy, Fertility and the Dark Earth: The Use of Ritual Pits in Hittite Cult •Canaanite Magic vs. Israelite Religion: Deuteronomy 18 and the Taxonomy of Taboo •Secrecy and Magic, Publicity and Torah: Unpacking a Talmudic Tale •Shamanic Initiatory Death and Resurrection in the Hekhalot Literature •Sacrificial Themes in Jewish Magic •The Ethnic Origins of a Roman-Era Philtrokatadesmos (PGM IV 296-434) •Sacrifice in the Greek Magical Papyri •Beans, Fleawort, and the Blood of a Hamadryas Baboon: Recipe Ingredients in Greco-Roman Magical Materials •The Witches' Thessaly •Speech Acts and the Stakes of Hellenism in Late Antiquity •The Prayer of Mary Who Dissolves Chains in Coptic Magic and Religion •The Magician and the Heretic: The Case of Simon Magus •Ancient Execration Magic in Coptic and Islamic Egypt •Index of Primary Sources •Religions in the Graeco-Roman World