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Magic in the Roman world : pagans, Jews, and Christians

Author: Naomi Janowitz
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.
Series: Religion in the first Christian centuries.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"This volume demonstrates that the word "magic" was widely employed in late antique texts as part of polemical attacks on enemies - but at the simplest level it was merely a term used for other people's rituals." "Janowitz's work illuminates the fact that acvities denounced as magical were integral to late antique religious practice, and shows that they must be understood from the perspective of those who employed  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Naomi Janowitz
ISBN: 041520206X 9780415202060 0415202078 9780415202077
OCLC Number: 45439921
Description: xiii, 145 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: 1. Greco-Roman, Christian and Jewish concepts of "magic" Pliny's critique of the magi. The church fathers' views of magic. Rabbinic classifications of magic --
2. Daimons and angels and the world of exorcism. The rise of angelology and daimonology. Daimons, possession and exorcism --
3. Ancient rites for gaining lovers --
4. Using natural forces for divine goals: Maria the Jewess and early alchemy --
5. Divine power, human hands: becoming gods in the first centuries. The emergence of deification techniques. Deification techniques in early Christian texts. Ascent techniques routinized --
6. "Even the decent women practice witchcraft": magic and gender in late antiquity.
Series Title: Religion in the first Christian centuries.
Responsibility: Naomi Janowitz.
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"This volume demonstrates that the word "magic" was widely employed in late antique texts as part of polemical attacks on enemies - but at the simplest level it was merely a term used for other people's rituals." "Janowitz's work illuminates the fact that acvities denounced as magical were integral to late antique religious practice, and shows that they must be understood from the perspective of those who employed them."--BOOK JACKET.

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