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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Language: English
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Leiden, Boston:
Brill,
2019.
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Religions in the Graeco-Roman World
188.
Religions in the Graeco-Roman World Online, Supplement 2018, ISBN: 9789004353404.
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Call Number: BF1779.L6
- 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.