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

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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المؤلف الرئيسي: AnneMarie Luijendijk; William E. Klingshirn (Editors)

التنسيق: كتاب الكتروني

اللغة: English

منشور في: Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2019.

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

الموضوعات:

Choice by lot > History > To 1500.
Civilization, Ancient.
Divination in the Bible.

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