Sortilege and its Practitioners in Late Antiquity: My Lots are in Thy HandsThe fourteen essays in this work examine late antique lot divination in the Mediterranean world, employing the overlapping perspectives of religious studies, classics, anthropology, economics, and history. |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Chapter 1 The Literature of Lot Divination | 19 |
Chapter 2 The Instruments of Lot Divination | 60 |
Palmomancy and Late Antique Lot Divination | 78 |
an Aid to Bibliomancy | 101 |
a Unique Syriac Biblical Manuscript as an Oracle of Interpretation | 124 |
Chapter 6 Secondhand Homer | 138 |
Chapter 7 Sortes Biblicae Judaicae | 154 |
Ritual Experts and the Great Tradition in Byzantine Egypt | 211 |
Aspects of Jurisdiction in Ritual Texts from Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt | 232 |
Oracle as Economic Indicator in Roman Egypt | 248 |
the Barbarian Christian Tatian Responds to Sortes | 290 |
Doubt in Christian Lot Divination | 309 |
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Chapter 8 The Sortes Barberinianae within the Tradition of Oracular Texts | 173 |
Chapter 9 Oxyrhynchus and Oracles in Late Antiquity | 196 |
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AnneMarie Luijendijk biblical text bibliomancy Book of Fate Brill Byzantine century cleromancy client Codex Bezae codices consultation context coptes Coptic Costanza culture David Frankfurter decade dice Divination in Late divinatory divinatory texts doubt Early Christian edition Egyptian evidence example fake answers fragments God’s Gospel of John Greek hermēneiai Homer Homeromanteion Iamblichus ibid Iliad interpretation Jewish John John’s Gospel Klingshirn late antique late antique Egypt Latin Leiden Leuven lot divination lot oracles lot texts Lots of Mary magical Mantikę manuscript medieval Naether Nollé oracular texts Oxford Oxyrhynchus P.Oxy pagan palmomantic Papaconstantinou papyri Papyrology passage Peeters Philoxenus Plutarch practices prayer preserved Princeton prognostication Psalm questions Randall Stewart Religion religious responses ritual Roman Egypt Roman Gaul Roman period scribal scribe shrine Sortes Astrampsychi Sortes Barberinianae Sortes Sanctorum Sortes Sangallenses sortilege sortition Studies Syriac Table of Correspondences Tatian textual ticket oracles tradition translation verses words καὶ
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| Title | Sortilege and its Practitioners in Late Antiquity: My Lots are in Thy Hands Religions in the Graeco-Roman World |
| Editors | AnneMarie Luijendijk, William E. Klingshirn |
| Publisher | BRILL, 2018 |
| ISBN | 9004385037, 9789004385030 |
| Length | 410 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Ancient / General |
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