My Lots Are in Thy Hands: Sortilege and Its Practitioners in Late Antiquity (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, Band 188) - Hardcover

 
9789004384101: My Lots Are in Thy Hands: Sortilege and Its Practitioners in Late Antiquity (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, Band 188)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 9004384103 ISBN 13: 9789004384101
Verlag: BRILL ACADEMIC PUB, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

Sortilege--the making of decisions by casting lots--was widely practiced in the Mediterranean world during the period known as late antiquity, between the third and eighth centuries CE. In My Lots are in Thy Hands: Sortilege and its Practitioners in Late Antiquity, AnneMarie Luijendijk and William Klingshirn have collected fourteen essays that examine late antique lot divination, especially but not exclusively through texts preserved in Greek, Latin, Coptic, and Syriac. Employing the overlapping perspectives of religious studies, classics, anthropology, economics, and history, contributors study a variety of topics, including the hermeneutics and operations of divinatory texts, the importance of diviners and their instruments, and the place of faith and doubt in the search for hidden order in a seemingly random world.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

AnneMarie Luijendijk, ThD (2005), Harvard University, is Professor of Religion at Princeton University. She researches early Christianity and late antique manuscript culture. Her publications include a new Coptic divinatory text: Forbidden Oracles: The Gospel of the Lots of Mary.

William Klingshirn, Ph.D. (1985), Stanford University, is Professor of Greek and Latin at the Catholic University of America. He has published numerous articles on divination in the Mediterranean world and is currently writing a book on diviners in late antiquity.

Contributors are: Jeff Childers, Salvatore Costanza, David Frankfurter, William E. Klingshirn, Alexander Kocar, AnneMarie Luijendijk, Michael Meerson, Franziska Naether, Laura S. Nasrallah, David M. Ratzan, Randall Stewart, Pieter W. van der Horst, Kevin W. Wilkinson

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Verlag
BRILL ACADEMIC PUB
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
9004384103
ISBN 13 
9789004384101
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
392
Herausgeber
Luijendijk AnneMarie, Klingshirn William
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