Sortilege and its Practitioners in Late Antiquity: My Lots are in Thy Hands.

Sortilege-the making of decisions by casting lots-was widely practiced in the Mediterranean world during the period known as late antiquity, between the third and eighth centuries CE. In My Lots are in Thy Hands: Sortilege and its Practitioners in Late Antiquity , AnneMarie Luijendijk and William Kl...

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Main Author: AnneMarie Luijendijk; William E. Klingshirn (Editors)

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Language: English

Published: Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2019.

Series: Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 188.
Religions in the Graeco-Roman World Online, Supplement 2018, ISBN: 9789004353404.

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505 0 0 |t Front Matter --   |t Copyright page --   |t -- Preface --   |t Figures --   |t Abbreviations --   |t Notes on Contributors --   |t Introduction --   |t The Literature of Lot Divination /  |r AnneMarie Luijendijk and William E. Klingshirn --   |t The Instruments of Lot Divination /  |r William E. Klingshirn --   |t Fateful Spasms: Palmomancy and Late Antique Lot Divination /  |r Salvatore Costanza --   |t Hermēneiai in Manuscripts of John's Gospel: an Aid to Bibliomancy /  |r Kevin Wilkinson --   |t Hermeneutics and Divination: a Unique Syriac Biblical Manuscript as an Oracle of Interpretation /  |r Jeff W. Childers --   |t Secondhand Homer /  |r Michael Meerson --   |t Sortes Biblicae Judaicae /  |r Pieter W. van der Horst --   |t The Sortes Barberinianae within the Tradition of Oracular Texts /  |r Randall Stewart --   |t Oxyrhynchus and Oracles in Late Antiquity /  |r Alexander Kocar --   |t Sortes, Scribality, and Syncretism: Ritual Experts and the Great Tradition in Byzantine Egypt /  |r David Frankfurter --   |t Sortilege between Divine Ordeals and "Secular" Justice: Aspects of Jurisdiction in (Ritual) Texts from Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt /  |r Franziska Naether --   |t Freakonomika: Oracle as Economic Indicator in Roman Egypt /  |r David M. Ratzan --   |t "I Do Not Wish to Be Rich": the 'Barbarian' Christian Tatian Responds to Sortes /  |r Laura Salah Nasrallah --   |t "Only Do Not Be of Two Minds": Doubt in Christian Lot Divination /  |r AnneMarie Luijendijk --   |t Back Matter --   |t Bibliography. 
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