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My Lots are in Thy Hands: Sortilege and its Practitioners in Late Antiquity: 188 (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, 188) - Hardcover

AnneMarie Luijendijk; William E. Klingshirn

 
9789004384101: My Lots are in Thy Hands: Sortilege and its Practitioners in Late Antiquity: 188 (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, 188)

Synopsis

The 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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About the Author

AnneMarie Luijendijk, ThD (2005), Harvard University, is Professor of Religion at Princeton University. She researches early Christianity and late antique manuscript culture. Her publications include a new Coptic divinatory text: Forbidden Oracles: The Gospel of the Lots of Mary.

William Klingshirn, Ph.D. (1985), Stanford University, is Professor of Greek and Latin at the Catholic University of America. He has published numerous articles on divination in the Mediterranean world and is currently writing a book on diviners in late antiquity.

Contributors are: Jeff Childers, Salvatore Costanza, David Frankfurter, William E. Klingshirn, Alexander Kocar, AnneMarie Luijendijk, Michael Meerson, Franziska Naether, Laura S. Nasrallah, David M. Ratzan, Randall Stewart, Pieter W. van der Horst, Kevin W. Wilkinson

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