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- Book Title
- Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique Worl
- ISBN
- 9780271022581
- Subject Area
- Body, Mind & Spirit, Religion, History
- Publication Name
- Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania STATE University Press
- Subject
- Ancient / Greece, General, Ancient / Egypt, Magick Studies, Divination / General, Dreams
- Publication Year
- 2003
- Series
- Magic in History Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Item Width
- 6.1 in
- Item Weight
- 16 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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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.
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Pennsylvania STATE University Press
ISBN-10
0271022582
ISBN-13
9780271022581
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2428803
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Ancient / Greece, General, Ancient / Egypt, Magick Studies, Divination / General, Dreams
Publication Year
2003
Series
Magic in History Ser.
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Body, Mind & Spirit, Religion, History
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2003-009823
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Lc Classification Number
Bf1591.P73 2003
Reviews
"This book is as professionally and indeed attractively produced as are the other volumes in the worthy Pennsylvania State Magic in History series." --Daniel Ogden International Journal of the Classical Tradition, "This book is as professionally and indeed attractively produced as are the other volumes in the worthy Pennsylvania State Magic in History series." -Daniel Ogden, International Journal of the Classical Tradition, "This book is as professionally and indeed attractively produced as are the other volumes in the worthy Pennsylvania State Magic in History series." --Daniel Ogden, International Journal of the Classical Tradition, &"This book is as professionally and indeed attractively produced as are the other volumes in the worthy Pennsylvania State Magic in History series.&" &-Daniel Ogden, International Journal of the Classical Tradition
Table of Content
Contents Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations List of Figures Introduction Scott Noegel, Joel Walker, and Brannon Wheeler Part I Locating Magic 1. Here, There, and Anywhere Jonathan Z. Smith Part II Prayer, Magic, and Ritual 2. Thessalos of Tralles and Cultural Exchange Ian Moyer 3. The Prayer of Mary in the Magical Book of Mary and the Angels Marvin Meyer 4. Hebrew, Hebrew Everywhere? Notes on the Interpretation of Voces Magicae Gideon Bohak 5. Magic and Society in Late Sasanian Iraq Michael G. Morony Part III Dreams and Divination 6. The Open Portal: Dreams and Divine Power in Pharaonic Egypt Kasia Szpakowska 7. Viscera and the Divine: Dreams as a Divinatory Bridge Between the Corporeal and the Incorporeal Peter Struck 8. Stars and the Egyptian Priesthood in the Graeco-Roman Period Jacco Dieleman 9. Divination and Its Discontents: Finding and Questioning Meaning in Ancient and Medieval Judaism Michael D. Schwartz Part IV The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars 10. Heaven and Earth: Divine-Human Relations in Mesopotamian Celestial Divination Francesca Rochberg 11. Astral Religion and the Representation of Divinity: The Cases of Ugarit and Judah Mark S. Smith 12. A New Star on the Horizon: Astral Christologies and Stellar Debates in Early Christian Discourse Nicola Denzey 13. At the Seizure of the Moon: The Absence of the Moon in the Mithras Liturgy Radcliffe Edmonds Contributors Index
Copyright Date
2003
Dewey Decimal
200/.93
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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