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This volume contains a series of provocative essays that explore expressions of magic and ritual power in the ancient world. The strength of the present volume lies in the breadth of scholarly approaches represented. The book begins with several papyrological studies presenting important new texts in Greek and Coptic, continuing with essays focussing on taxonomy and definition. The concluding essays apply contemporary theories to analyses of specific test cases in a broad variety of ancient Mediterranean cultures. Paul Mirecki, Th.D. (1986) in Religious Studies, Harvard Divinity School, is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Kansas. Marvin Meyer, Ph.D. (1979) in Religion, Claremont Graduate School, is Professor of Religion at Chapman University, Orange, California, and Director of the Coptic Magical Texts Project of the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity.


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  • Author : Paul Allan Mirecki
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Genre : Religion
  • Total Pages : 496 pages
  • ISBN : 9789004116764
  • PDF File Size : 8,5 Mb
  • Language : English
  • Rating : 4/5 from 21 reviews

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Magic and Ritual in the Ancient World

Magic and Ritual in the Ancient World
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • File Size : 32,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 16 June 2024
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This volume contains a series of provocative essays that explore expressions of magic and ritual power in the ancient world. The strength of the present volume lies in the breadth

Ancient Magic and Ritual Power

Ancient Magic and Ritual Power
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • File Size : 43,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 24 August 2015
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This volume contains a series of provocative essays that explore expressions of magic and ritual power in the ancient world. The essays are authored by leading scholars in the fields

Magic and Ritual in the Ancient World

Magic and Ritual in the Ancient World
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • File Size : 39,7 Mb
  • Release Date : 01 January 2002
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This volume contains a series of provocative essays that explore expressions of magic and ritual power in the ancient world. The essays are authored by leading scholars in the fields

Magic in the Ancient World

Magic in the Ancient World
  • Publisher : Unknown Publisher
  • File Size : 38,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 16 June 1997
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Ancient Greeks and Romans often turned to magic to achieve personal goals. Magical rites were seen as a route for direct access to the gods, for material gains as well

Guide to the Study of Ancient Magic

Guide to the Study of Ancient Magic
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • File Size : 34,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 19 March 2019
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This volume seeks to advance the study of ancient magic through separate discussions of ancient terms for ambiguous or illicit ritual, the ancient texts commonly designated magical, and contexts in

The Scent of Ancient Magic

The Scent of Ancient Magic
  • Publisher : University of Michigan Press
  • File Size : 36,7 Mb
  • Release Date : 27 April 2022
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Chapter 1.Breath of the Leopard: scent and magic --Chapter 2.Fragrant panacea: scent and power --Chapter 3.Scent in the Magical Papyri --Chapter 4.Perfumed Enchantments: the smell of witches' magic --Chapter 5.Rot

Magic and Divination in the Ancient World

Magic and Divination in the Ancient World
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • File Size : 43,5 Mb
  • Release Date : 01 October 2021
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This collection of essays focuses on divination across the Ancient World from early Mesopotamia to late antiquity. The authors deal with the forms, theory and poetics of this important and

Daughters of Hecate

Daughters of Hecate
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • File Size : 42,5 Mb
  • Release Date : 16 June 2024
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Interrogating the magic-gender connection / Kimberly B. Stratton -- From goddess to hag: the Greek and the Roman witch in classical literature / Barbette Stanley Spaeth -- "The most worthy of women

Drawing Down the Moon

Drawing Down the Moon
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • File Size : 28,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 02 July 2019
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One of the foremost experts on magic, religion, and the occult in the ancient world provides an unparalleled exploration of magic in the Greco-Roman world, giving insight into the shifting