Magic and divination in the ancient world / edited by Leda Ciraolo and Jonathan Seidel.
Contributor(s): Ciraolo, Leda Jean
| Seidel, Jonathan Lee
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TextSeries: Ancient magic and divination: 2.Publisher: Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill : Styx, 2002Description: xii, 152 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9004124063Subject(s): Magic -- Congresses | Divination -- CongressesBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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John Bulow Campbell Library | Midrange | BF1586 .M34 2002 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0182902236526 |
"Proceedings of the conference on Magic and Divination in the Ancient World held at the University of California at Berkeley in February 1994"--P. vii.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Soul emplacements in ancient Mesopotamian funerary rituals / Joann Scurlock -- A severed head laughed: stories of divinatory interpretation / Ann Kessler Guinan -- Inquiring for the state in the ancient Near East: delineating political location / Joel Sweek -- Hittite oracles / Richard Beal -- Oracle by image: Coffin Text 103 in context / John Gee -- Necromancy in ancient Egypt / Robert K. Ritner -- Necromantic praxis in the Midrash on the seance at En Dor / Jonathan Seidel -- Under Homer's spell / Gregg Schwender -- The poet as conjurer: magic and literary theory in late antiquity / Peter t. Struck -- Persons of power and their communities / Anitra Bingham Kolenkow.