Envisioning Magic, A Princeton Seminar and Symposium.

This collection of twelve articles presents a selection of papers delivered in the course of a seminar 1994-95 and its concluding international symposium at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. The common theme is the interrelation between magic and religion, focussing particularly on the...

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Main Author: Peter Schäfer; Hans Kippenberg (Editors)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden, Boston: Brill, 1997.

Series: Numen Book Series 75.
Numen Book Series Online, ISBN: 9789004380837.

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Call Number: BF1621 .E58 1997

Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • Peter Schäfer and Hans G. Kippenberg
  • Magic and Theology in Ancient Egypt /
  • Assmann Jan
  • Magic and Religion in Ancient Judaism /
  • Peter Schäfer
  • Jewish Magic in the Greek Magical Papyri (PGM VII.260-71) /
  • Hans Dieter Betz
  • Reporting the Marvellous: Private Divination in the Greek Magical Papyri /
  • Richard Gordon
  • How to Cope with a Diff1cult Life. A View of Ancient Magic /
  • Fritz Graf
  • Ritual Expertise in Roman Egypt and the Problem of the Category 'Magician' /
  • David Frankfurter
  • Magic in Roman Civil Discourse: Why Rituals Could be Illegal /
  • Hans G. Kippenberg
  • Rising to the Occasion: Theurgic Ascent in its Cultural Milieu /
  • Sarah Iles Johnston
  • On Judaism, Jewish Mysticism and Magic /
  • Moshe Idel
  • Miracle, Magic, and Disenchantment in Early Modern Germany /
  • Philip M. Soergel
  • Between Rellgion and Magic: An Analysis of Witchcraft Trials in the Spanish Netherlands, Seventeenth Century /
  • Gurno Marnef
  • Language, Signs and Magic /
  • Thomas M. Greene
  • Index of Sources /
  • Peter Schäfer and Hans G. Kippenberg
  • Index of Names and Subjects /
  • Peter Schäfer and Hans G. Kippenberg
  • Studies in the History of Religions Numen Book Series /
  • Peter Schäfer and Hans G. Kippenberg.