Sortilege and Its Practitioners in Late Antiquity.

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...

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Main Author: Luijendijk, AnneMarie
Other Authors: E. Klingshirn, William
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : BRILL, 2018.
Series:Religions in the Graeco-Roman World Ser.
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505 0 |a Intro; Contents; Preface; Figures; Abbreviations; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Literature of Lot Divination; Chapter 2 The Instruments of Lot Divination; Chapter 3 Fateful Spasms: Palmomancy and Late Antique Lot Divination; Chapter 4 Hermēneiai in Manuscripts of John's Gospel: an Aid to Bibliomancy; Chapter 5 Hermeneutics and Divination: a Unique Syriac Biblical Manuscript as an Oracle of Interpretation; Chapter 6 Secondhand Homer; Chapter 7 Sortes Biblicae Judaicae; Chapter 8 The Sortes Barberinianae within the Tradition of Oracular Texts. 
505 8 |a Chapter 9 Oxyrhynchus and Oracles in Late AntiquityChapter 10 Sortes, Scribality, and Syncretism: Ritual Experts and the Great Tradition in Byzantine Egypt; Chapter 11 Sortilege between Divine Ordeals and "Secular" Justice: Aspects of Jurisdiction in (Ritual) Texts from Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt; Chapter 12 Freakonomika: Oracle as Economic Indicator in Roman Egypt; Chapter 13 "I Do Not Wish to Be Rich": the 'Barbarian' Christian Tatian Responds to Sortes; Chapter 14 "Only Do Not Be of Two Minds": Doubt in Christian Lot Divination; Bibliography; Index of Ancient Sources. 
500 |a Index of Modern AuthorsSubject Index. 
520 |a 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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