A Coptic Handbook Of Ritual Power
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A Coptic Handbook Of Ritual Power
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Author : Malcolm Choat
language : en
Publisher: Brepols Pub
Release Date : 2014-10-22
A Coptic Handbook Of Ritual Power written by Malcolm Choat and has been published by Brepols Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-22 with History categories.
This volume publishes a new Coptic handbook of ritual power, comprising a complete 20 page parchment codex from the second half of the first millennium AD. It consists of an invocation including both Christian and Gnostic elements, ritual instructions, and a list of twenty-seven spells to cure demonic possession, various ailments, the effects of magic, or to bring success in love and business. The codex is not only a substantial new addition to the corpus of magical texts from Egypt, but, in its opening invocation, also provides new evidence for Sethian Gnostic thought in Coptic texts. A Coptic Handbook of Ritual Power is the first volume in the series The Macquarie Papyri, which will publish the papyri in the collection of the Museum of Ancient Cultures, Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia).
Ancient Christian Magic
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Author : Marvin W. Meyer
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 1999-04-04
Ancient Christian Magic written by Marvin W. Meyer and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-04-04 with Literary Collections categories.
This thought-provoking collection of magical texts from ancient Egypt shows the exotic rituals, esoteric healing practices, and incantatory and supernatural dimensions that flowered in early Christianity. These remarkable Christian magical texts include curses, spells of protection from "headless powers" and evil spirits, spells invoking thunderous powers, descriptions of fire baptism, and even recipes from a magical "cookbook." Virtually all the texts are by Coptic Christians, and they date from about the 1st-12th centuries of the common era, with the majority from late antiquity. By placing these rarely seen texts in historical context and discussing their significance, the authors explore the place of healing, prayer, miracles, and magic in the early Christian experience, and expand our understanding of Christianity and Gnosticism as a vital folk religion.
Prayer Magic And The Stars In The Ancient And Late Antique World
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Author : Scott Noegel
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2010-11-01
Prayer Magic And The Stars In The Ancient And Late Antique World written by Scott Noegel and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-01 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
In the religious systems of ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Mediterranean, gods and demigods were neither abstract nor distant, but communicated with mankind through signs and active intervention. Men and women were thus eager to interpret, appeal to, and even control the gods and their agents. In Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World, a distinguished array of scholars explores the many ways in which people in the ancient world sought to gain access to--or, in some cases, to bind or escape from--the divine powers of heaven and earth. Grounded in a variety of disciplines, including Assyriology, Classics, and early Islamic history, the fifteen essays in this volume cover a broad geographic area: Greece, Egypt, Syria-Palestine, Mesopotamia, and Persia. Topics include celestial divination in early Mesopotamia, the civic festivals of classical Athens, and Christian magical papyri from Coptic Egypt. Moving forward to Late Antiquity, we see how Judaism, Christianity, and Islam each incorporated many aspects of ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman religion into their own prayers, rituals, and conceptions. Even if they no longer conceived of the sun, moon, and the stars as eternal or divine, Christians, Jews, and Muslims often continued to study the movements of the heavens as a map on which divine power could be read. The reader already familiar with studies of ancient religion will find in Prayer, Magic, and the Stars both old friends and new faces. Contributors include Gideon Bohak, Nicola Denzey, Jacco Dieleman, Radcliffe Edmonds, Marvin Meyer, Michael G. Morony, Ian Moyer, Francesca Rochberg, Jonathan Z. Smith, Mark S. Smith, Peter Struck, Michael Swartz, and Kasia Szpakowska. Published as part of Penn State's Magic in History series, Prayer, Magic, and the Stars appears at a time of renewed interest in divination and occult practices in the ancient world. It will interest a wide audience in the field of comparative religion as well as students of the ancient world and late antiquity.
The Wisdom Of Thoth
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Author : Grażyna Bąkowska-Czerner
language : en
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2016-01-22
The Wisdom Of Thoth written by Grażyna Bąkowska-Czerner and has been published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-22 with Social Science categories.
This volume represents a selection of contributions on Mediterranean themes from a wider international interdisciplinary conference on Magical Texts in Ancient Civilizations, organised by the Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilizations at Jagiellonian University in Kraków in Poland between 27-28 June 2013
Binding Words
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Author : Don C. Skemer
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2010-11-01
Binding Words written by Don C. Skemer and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
In the Middle Ages, textual amulets--short texts written on parchment or paper and worn on the body--were thought to protect the bearer against enemies, to heal afflictions caused by demonic invasions, and to bring the wearer good fortune. In Binding Words, Don C. Skemer provides the first book-length study of this once-common means of harnessing the magical power of words. Textual amulets were a unique source of empowerment, promising the believer safe passage through a precarious world by means of an ever-changing mix of scriptural quotations, divine names, common prayers, and liturgical formulas. Although theologians and canon lawyers frequently derided textual amulets as ignorant superstition, many literate clergy played a central role in producing and disseminating them. The texts were, in turn, embraced by a broad cross-section of Western Europe. Saints and parish priests, physicians and village healers, landowners and peasants alike believed in their efficacy. Skemer offers careful analysis of several dozen surviving textual amulets along with other contemporary medieval source materials. In the process, Binding Words enriches our understanding of popular religion and magic in everyday medieval life.
Guide To The Study Of Ancient Magic
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Author : David Frankfurter
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-03-19
Guide To The Study Of Ancient Magic written by David Frankfurter and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-19 with History categories.
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 which the term magic may be used descriptively.
The Oxford Handbook Of Early Christian Archaeology
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Author : David K. Pettegrew
language : en
Publisher: Oxford Handbooks
Release Date : 2019
The Oxford Handbook Of Early Christian Archaeology written by David K. Pettegrew and has been published by Oxford Handbooks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with History categories.
"This handbook brings together work by leading scholars of the archaeology of early Christianity in the Mediterranean and surrounding regions. The 34 essays to this volume ground the history, culture, and society of the first seven centuries of Christianity in the latest currents of archaeological method, theory, and research."--
Ancient Libraries
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Author : Jason König
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-04-25
Ancient Libraries written by Jason König and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-25 with History categories.
The circulation of books was the motor of classical civilization. However, books were both expensive and rare, and so libraries - private and public, royal and civic - played key roles in articulating intellectual life. This collection, written by an international team of scholars, presents a fundamental reassessment of how ancient libraries came into being, how they were organized and how they were used. Drawing on papyrology and archaeology, and on accounts written by those who read and wrote in them, it presents new research on reading cultures, on book collecting and on the origins of monumental library buildings. Many of the traditional stories told about ancient libraries are challenged. Few were really enormous, none were designed as research centres, and occasional conflagrations do not explain the loss of most ancient texts. But the central place of libraries in Greco-Roman culture emerges more clearly than ever.
The Materiality Of Texts From Ancient Egypt
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-10-08
The Materiality Of Texts From Ancient Egypt written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-08 with History categories.
The Materiality of Texts from Ancient Egypt offers nine articles with new approaches to the material aspects of writing, writing supports, and scribal practice from Pharaonic to Late Antique Egypt. Case studies include Greek and Egyptian papyri and ostraca, inscriptions and graffiti. (40w)
The Reception Of The Virgin In Byzantium
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Author : Thomas Arentzen
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-08-15
The Reception Of The Virgin In Byzantium written by Thomas Arentzen and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-15 with Art categories.
Images and texts tell various stories about the Virgin Mary in Byzantium, reflecting an important cult with strong doctrinal foundations.