Cultural Plurality in Ancient Magical Texts and Practices: Graeco-Egyptian Handbooks and Related Traditions
Cover -- Titel -- Table of Contents -- List of General Abbreviations Used Throughout the Volume -- Ljuba Merlina Bortolani/Svenja Nagel: Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Part I: Egyptian, Greek and Mesopotamian Traditions of Magic: Different Genres, Perception of the 'Other' and Possibl...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Tübingen
Mohr Siebeck
2019
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| In: |
Orientalische Religionen in der Antike (32)
Year: 2019 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Cultural plurality in ancient magical texts and practices] (2021) (Tervanotko, Hanna)
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series/Journal: | Orientalische Religionen in der Antike
32 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Egypt (Antiquity)
/ Greece (Antiquity)
/ Magic
/ Cultural contact
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| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Conference program 2014 (Heidelberg) B Electronic books |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
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| Summary: | Cover -- Titel -- Table of Contents -- List of General Abbreviations Used Throughout the Volume -- Ljuba Merlina Bortolani/Svenja Nagel: Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Part I: Egyptian, Greek and Mesopotamian Traditions of Magic: Different Genres, Perception of the 'Other' and Possible Transcultural Exchange -- Franziska Naether: Magical Practices in Egyptian Literary Texts: in Quest of Cultural Plurality -- William D. Furley: Magic and Mystery at Selinus: Another Look at the Getty Hexameters -- Daniel Schwemer: Beyond Ereškigal? Mesopotamian Magic Traditions in the Papyri Graecae Magicae -- Part II: Cultural Plurality and Fusion in the Graeco-Egyptian Magical Papyri (PGM/PDM) -- Single Handbooks and Magical Techniques -- Richard Gordon: Compiling P. Lond. I 121 = PGM VII in a Transcultural Context -- Svenja Nagel: Illuminating Encounters: Reflections on Cultural Plurality in Lamp Divination Rituals -- Ljuba Merlina Bortolani: 'We Are Such Stuff as Dream Oracles Are Made on': Greek and Egyptian Traditions and Divine Personas in the Dream Divination Spells of the Magical Papyri -- Christopher A. Faraone: Cultural Plurality in Greek Magical Recipes for Oracular and Protective Statues -- Specific Spells and Deities -- Joachim Friedrich Quack: The Heliopolitan Ennead and Geb as a Scrofulous Boar in the PGM: Two Case Studies on Cultural Interaction in Late-Antique Magic -- Richard Phillips: Traditions of Transformation and Shape-Shifting in PGM XIII 270-77 -- Adria Haluszka: Crowns of Hermanubis: Semiotic Fusion and Spells for Better Business in the Magical Papyri -- Marcela Ristorto: Love Spell and Hymn to Aphrodite in PGM IV (2891-941) -- Part III: Integration and Transformation of Graeco-Egyptian Magic in Jewish and Byzantine Spells -- Gideon Bohak/Alessia Bellusci: The Greek Prayer to Helios in Sefer ha-Razim, in Light of New Textual Evidence. |
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| ISBN: | 3161564790 |