Forbidden oracles?: the Gospel of the lots of Mary
Cover -- Preface -- Table of Content -- Introduction -- Sortilege -- The Sortes Family -- Sortes and Social History -- The Gospel of the Lots of Mary -- Part I -- Chapter 1: The Gospel of the Lots of Mary -- The Gospel -- A Sacred Divinatory Book of Isis and Hermes "Evangelus" -- Gospel as...
| Summary: | Cover -- Preface -- Table of Content -- Introduction -- Sortilege -- The Sortes Family -- Sortes and Social History -- The Gospel of the Lots of Mary -- Part I -- Chapter 1: The Gospel of the Lots of Mary -- The Gospel -- A Sacred Divinatory Book of Isis and Hermes "Evangelus" -- Gospel as Good News -- Mary the Mother of the Lord Jesus Christ -- Angels -- God, Lord, and Jesus Christ -- Chapter 2: Encountering a Miniature Divination Codex -- Codicology -- Palaeography -- Piecing together a Provenance -- The Shrine of Saint Colluthus -- Miniature Codex -- Chapter 3: A Three-Way Conversation: Book, Diviner, and Client -- Instructions for Other Lot Texts -- Bibliomancy -- The Diviner -- The Clientele -- Far from Home -- Vocabulary of Violence -- Do Not Doubt -- Chapter 4: A New Voice in the Discourse on Divination -- The Threat of Knowledge to Authority -- Athanasius of Alexandria: The Triumph of the Incarnate Word and the Holy Man -- Church Regulations Rejecting Diviners -- Anastasius of Sinai Embraces Christian Divination -- Divination and Intramural Christian Debate: Athanasius Again -- The Sortes Sanctorum: A Prohibited Divinatory Text -- Conclusions -- Part II -- Text and Translation -- About the Translation -- Bible -- Sortes -- Incipit -- Oracle 1 -- Oracle 2 -- Oracle 3 -- Oracle 4 -- Oracle 5 -- Oracle 6 -- Oracle 7 -- Oracle 8 -- Oracle 9 -- Oracle 10 -- Oracle 11 -- Oracle 12 -- Oracle 13 -- Oracle 14 -- Oracle 15 -- Oracle 16 -- Oracle 17 -- Oracle 18 -- Oracle 19 -- Oracle 20 -- Oracle 21 -- Oracle 22 -- Oracle 23 -- Oracle 24 -- Oracle 25 -- Oracle 26 -- Oracle 27 -- Oracle 28 -- Oracle 29 -- Oracle 30 -- Oracle 31 -- Oracle 32 -- Oracle 33 -- Oracle 34 -- Oracle 35 -- Oracle 36 -- Oracle 37 -- Images -- Image Credit Information -- Bibliography -- Editions of Inscriptions, Ostraca and Papyri -- Primary Sources -- Electronic Sources. Secondary Sources -- Index of Primary Sources -- Biblical Texts -- Ancient Authors -- Inscriptions, Papyri, and Manuscripts -- Index of Subjects and Authors -- Vocabulary -- Egyptian Coptic -- Greco-Coptic. In this volume, AnneMarie Luijendijk analyzes a previously unknown text preserved in a fifth- or sixth-century Coptic miniature codex, entitled The Gospel of the Lots of Mary , and places it within the context of practices of and debates about divination in the ancient Mediterranean world. This is the first critical edition and translation of this new text; it is also a project about religious authority and practices.In the first part of the book, the author investigates the codex, taking into account both its weaving together of biblical allusions and traditional divinatory phrases, its material format as miniature codex with imprints of its use, and mode of operation. The second part consists of the edition of this text, an English translation, and an elaborate textual commentary.AnneMarie Luijendijk participates in conversations about lived religion and privileged knowledge of the divine or the future. Sortilege-the practice of casting lots to obtain an answer-was widespread in antiquity; it was a method applied in decision-making on all levels of ancient society. As a religious practice, lot divination was also highly contested, as access to these practices and thus to the divine meant control of powers, religiously and socially. The text, replete with biblical phrases but fundamentally materialistic in worldview, disrupts our concepts of what is religious in the ancient world. Luijendijk thus contributes to discussions in the study of religion that question the categories of religion and magic. She also contributes to scholarship on the production and use of books, especially miniature codices. Reihe Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum / Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity - Band 89 |
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| ISBN: | 3161528603 |