Prayer, magic, and the stars in the ancient and late antique world / edited by Scott Noegel, Joel Walker, and Brannon Wheeler.
Contributor(s): Noegel, Scott B
| Walker, Joel Thomas | Wheeler, Brannon M
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TextSeries: Magic in history: Publisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2003]Copyright date: ©2003Description: xi, 255 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0271022582 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780271022581 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0271022574 (alk. paper); 9780271022574 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Magic, Ancient -- Congresses | Magic -- Religious aspects -- History -- Congresses | Dreams -- Religious aspects -- History -- Congresses | Stars -- Religious aspects -- History -- Congresses | Divination -- History -- CongressesDDC classification: 200/.93 LOC classification: BF1591 | .P73 2003Bibliography, 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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Papers are from a conference held at the University of Washington on 3-5 March 2000.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Here, there, and anywhere / Jonathan Z. Smith -- Thessalos of Tralles and cultural exchange / Ian Moyer -- The prayer of Mary in the magical book of Mary and the angels / Marvin Meyer -- Hebrew, Hebrew everywhere? Notes on the interpretation of Voces Magicae / Gideon Bohak -- Magic and society in late Sasanian Iraq / Michael G. Morony -- The open portal: dreams and divine power in pharaonic Egypt / Kasia Szpakowska -- Viscera and the divine: dreams as the divinatory bridge between the corporeal and the incorporeal / Peter Struck -- Stars and the Egyptian priesthood in the Graeco-Roman period / Jacco Dieleman -- Divination and its discontents: finding and questioning meaning in ancient and medieval Judaism / Michael D. Swartz -- Heaven and earth: divine-human relations in Mesopotamian celestial divination / Francesca Rochberg -- Astral religion and the representation of divinity: the cases of Ugarit and Judah / Mark S. Smith -- A new star on the horizon: astral christologies and stellar debates in early Christian discourse / Nicola Denzey -- At the seizure of the moon: the absence of the moon in the Mithras liturgy / Radcliffe G. Edmonds III.