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| Material Type: | Conference publication, Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Scott B Noegel; Joel Thomas Walker; Brannon M Wheeler |
| ISBN: | 0271022574 9780271022574 0271022582 9780271022581 |
| OCLC Number: | 52430918 |
| Description: | xi, 255 p. : ill., 1 map ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 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. |
| Series Title: | Magic in history |
| Responsibility: | edited by Scott Noegel, Joel Walker, and Brannon Wheeler. |
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