Sortilege and Its Practitioners in Late Antiquity.

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.
Subjects:
To 1500
Choice by lot > History > To 1500.
Civilization, Ancient.
Divination in the Bible.
Civilization, Classical.
Choice by lot
Civilization, Ancient
Civilization, Classical
Divination in the Bible
History
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.
  • 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.

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