Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World

Name: Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World
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ISBN: 9780271022574

ISBN-10: 0271022574

ISBN-13: 9780271022574

Edition: 2003

Authors: Scott Noegel, Joel Walker, Brannon Wheeler

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Book details

List price: $72.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Publication date: 10/13/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Acknowledgments


List of Abbreviations


List of Figures


Introduction




Locating Magic



Here, There, and Anywhere




Prayer, Magic, and Ritual



Thessalos of Tralles and Cultural Exchange




The Prayer of Mary in the Magical Book of Mary and the Angels




Hebrew, Hebrew Everywhere? Notes on the Interpretation of Voces Magicae




Magic and Society in Late Sasanian Iraq




Dreams and Divination



The Open Portal: Dreams and Divine Power in Pharaonic Egypt




Viscera and the Divine: Dreams as the Divinatory Bridge Between the Corporeal and the Incorporeal




Stars and the Egyptian Priesthood in the Graeco-Roman Period




Divination and Its Discontents: Finding and Questioning Meaning in Ancient and Medieval Judaism




The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars



Heaven and Earth: Divine-Human Relations in Mesopotamian Celestial Divination




Astral Religion and the Representation of Divinity: The Cases of Ugarit and Judah




A New Star on the Horizon: Astral Christologies and Stellar Debates in Early Christian Discourse




At the Seizure of the Moon: The Absence of the Moon in the Mithras Liturgy



Contributors


Index