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Paperback. Condition: New. Kimberly B. Stratton investigates the cultural and ideological motivations behind early imaginings of the magician, the sorceress, and the witch in the ancient world. Accusations of magic could carry the death penalty or, at the very least, marginalize the person or group they targeted. But Stratton moves beyond the popular view of these accusations as mere slander. In her view, representations and accusations of sorcery mirror the complex struggle of ancient societies to define authority, legitimacy, and Otherness.Stratton argues that the concept "magic" first emerged as a discourse in ancient Athens where it operated part and parcel of the struggle to define Greek identity in opposition to the uncivilized "barbarian" following the Persian Wars. The idea of magic then spread throughout the Hellenized world and Rome, reflecting and adapting to political forces, values, and social concerns in each society. Stratton considers the portrayal of witches and magicians in the literature of four related periods and cultures: classical Athens, early imperial Rome, pre-Constantine Christianity, and rabbinic Judaism. She compares patterns in their representations of magic and analyzes the relationship between these stereotypes and the social factors that shaped them.Stratton's comparative approach illuminates the degree to which magic was (and still is) a cultural construct that depended upon and reflected particular social contexts. Unlike most previous studies of magic, which treated the classical world separately from antique Judaism, Naming the Witch highlights the degree to which these ancient cultures shared ideas about power and legitimate authority, even while constructing and deploying those ideas in different ways. The book also interrogates the common association of women with magic, denaturalizing the gendered stereotype in the process. Drawing on Michel Foucault's notion of discourse as well as the work of other contemporary theorists, such as Homi K. Bhabha and Bruce Lincoln, Stratton's bewitching study presents a more nuanced, ideologically sensitive approach to understanding the witch in Western history.…

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Condition: new. Pages: 320 Language: Russian. Kazhetsja, chto obraz moguschestvennoj vedmy ili vsesilnogo kolduna suschestvoval v zapadnoj kulture vsegda. No kogda i pri kakikh obstojatelstvakh on pojavilsja? Kimberli Stretton predlagaet rassmatrivat magiju kak diskurs, u kotorogo est svoja kulturnaja, sotsialnaja i politicheskaja istorija. Avtor analiziruet obrazy vedm i magov v literature chetyrekh vzaimosvjazannykh istoricheskikh periodov - klassicheskikh Afin, rannego imperskogo Rima, dokonstantinovskogo khristianstva i ravvinisticheskogo iudaizma. Stretton sravnivaet razvitie diskursa o koldovstve v etikh kulturakh, nakhodit obschie dlja nikh vsekh cherty i vystraivaet svjazi mezhdu etimi ideologicheskimi konstruktami i sotsialnymi faktorami, ikh porodivshimi. Odna iz glavnykh zadach knigi - pokazat, chto v drevnem mire obvinenija v koldovstve ne svodilis k prostomu nagovoru, a byli popytkoj opredelit granitsy vlasti i legitimnosti, provesti chertu mezhdu soboj i Drugim. Kimberli Stretton - istorik religii, assotsiirovannyj professor Karltonskogo universiteta. Perevod s anglijskogo Nesterenko Marija 9785444827451.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. Kimberly B. Stratton investigates the cultural and ideological motivations behind early imaginings of the magician, the sorceress, and the witch in the ancient world. Accusations of magic could carry the death penalty or, at the very least, marginalize the person or group they targeted. But Stratton moves beyond the popular view of these accusations as mere slander. In her view, representations and accusations of sorcery mirror the complex struggle of ancient societies to define authority, legitimacy, and Otherness.Stratton argues that the concept "magic" first emerged as a discourse in ancient Athens where it operated part and parcel of the struggle to define Greek identity in opposition to the uncivilized "barbarian" following the Persian Wars. The idea of magic then spread throughout the Hellenized world and Rome, reflecting and adapting to political forces, values, and social concerns in each society. Stratton considers the portrayal of witches and magicians in the literature of four related periods and cultures: classical Athens, early imperial Rome, pre-Constantine Christianity, and rabbinic Judaism. She compares patterns in their representations of magic and analyzes the relationship between these stereotypes and the social factors that shaped them.Stratton's comparative approach illuminates the degree to which magic was (and still is) a cultural construct that depended upon and reflected particular social contexts. Unlike most previous studies of magic, which treated the classical world separately from antique Judaism, Naming the Witch highlights the degree to which these ancient cultures shared ideas about power and legitimate authority, even while constructing and deploying those ideas in different ways. The book also interrogates the common association of women with magic, denaturalizing the gendered stereotype in the process. Drawing on Michel Foucault's notion of discourse as well as the work of other contemporary theorists, such as Homi K. Bhabha and Bruce Lincoln, Stratton's bewitching study presents a more nuanced, ideologically sensitive approach to understanding the witch in Western history.…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Kimberly B. Stratton presents an innovative approach to understanding ancient depictions and accusations of magic as forms of discourse, examining their role in struggles to define legitimate power and authority. She traces ¿magic discourse¿ from Classical Greece to the Babylonian Talmud, illuminating powerful stereotypes of sorcery and witches.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. Daughters of Hecate unites for the first time research on the problem of gender and magic in three ancient Mediterranean societies: early Judaism, Christianity, and Graeco-Roman culture. The book illuminates the gendering of ancient magic by approaching the topic from three distinct disciplinary perspectives: literary stereotyping, the social application of magic discourse, and material culture. The authors probe the foundations of, processes, and motivations behind gendered stereotypes, beginning with Western culture's earliest associations of women and magic in the Bible and Homer's Odyssey. Daughters of Hecate provides a nuanced exploration of the topic while avoiding reductive approaches. In fact, the essays in this volume uncover complexities and counter-discourses that challenge, rather than reaffirm, many gendered stereotypes taken for granted and reified by most modern scholarship. By combining critical theoretical methods with research into literary and material evidence, Daughters of Hecate interrogates a false association that has persisted from antiquity, to early modern witch hunts, to the present day.…

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Hardback. Condition: New. Kimberly B. Stratton investigates the cultural and ideological motivations behind early imaginings of the magician, the sorceress, and the witch in the ancient world. Accusations of magic could carry the death penalty or, at the very least, marginalize the person or group they targeted. But Stratton moves beyond the popular view of these accusations as mere slander. In her view, representations and accusations of sorcery mirror the complex struggle of ancient societies to define authority, legitimacy, and Otherness. Stratton argues that the concept "magic" first emerged as a discourse in ancient Athens where it operated part and parcel of the struggle to define Greek identity in opposition to the uncivilized "barbarian" following the Persian Wars. The idea of magic then spread throughout the Hellenized world and Rome, reflecting and adapting to political forces, values, and social concerns in each society. Stratton considers the portrayal of witches and magicians in the literature of four related periods and cultures: classical Athens, early imperial Rome, pre-Constantine Christianity, and rabbinic Judaism.She compares patterns in their representations of magic and analyzes the relationship between these stereotypes and the social factors that shaped them. Stratton's comparative approach illuminates the degree to which magic was (and still is) a cultural construct that depended upon and reflected particular social contexts. Unlike most previous studies of magic, which treated the classical world separately from antique Judaism, Naming the Witch highlights the degree to which these ancient cultures shared ideas about power and legitimate authority, even while constructing and deploying those ideas in different ways. The book also interrogates the common association of women with magic, denaturalizing the gendered stereotype in the process. Drawing on Michel Foucault's notion of discourse as well as the work of other contemporary theorists, such as Homi K. Bhabha and Bruce Lincoln, Stratton's bewitching study presents a more nuanced, ideologically sensitive approach to understanding the witch in Western history.…

Large octavo (250 x 170 mm), publisher's full cloth with publisher's illustrated dustjacket, XXII, 411 (+1) pp., with a portrait in b/w as frontispiece, a well preserved copy. [JSJS - Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism; 177]. - ISBN: 9789004332300. - Contents : Alan F. Segal : A Life in Perspective / Kimberly B. Stratton. - Introduction to the Volume / Andrea Lieber. - Part 1. Two Powers in Heaven (Heavenly Ascent and Angelification). The Self-Glorification Hymn from Qumran / John J. Collins. - Theosis through Works of the Law : Deification of the Earthly Righteous in Classical Rabbinic Thought / Jonah Chanan Steinberg. - From the Covenant of the Rainbow to the Covenant at Sinai, from the Pilgrimage to the Temple to the Vision of the Chariot, from the Blessing of the First Fruits to the Priestly Blessing, and from the Tiqqun leil Shavu?ot to the Revelation of the Shekhinah / Rachel Elior. - Part 2. Rebecca's Children (Jewish Christian Origins). Some Particulars about Universalism / Ellen Birnbaum. - Imagining Jesus, with Food / Michel Desjardins. - Antiquity's Children : History and Theology in Three Surveys / Tzvee Zahavy --; Part 3. Paul the Convert (Conversion, Apostasy, Identity). Giving Up the Godfearers / Ross S. Kraemer. - Marcion and Boundaries / Stephen G. Wilson. - The Interpreter as Intertext: Origen's First Homily on the Canticle of Canticles / Celia Deutsch. - Translation and Transformation : The Coptic Soundscapes of The Thunder : Perfect Mind / Jared C. Calaway. - Part 4. Life after Death (Death and Treatment of the Dead). Maccabees, Martyrs, Murders, and Masada : Noble Deaths and Suicides in 1 and 2 Maccabees and Josephus / Jonathan Klawans. - The Lament of the Martyrs and the Literature of Destruction (Rev 6:10) / William Morrow. - A Rabbinic Translation of Relics / Jeffrey L. Rubenstein. - Part 5. Sinning in the Hebrew Bible (Morality, Theodicy, Theology). The Golden Rule in Classical Judaism / Jacob Neusner. - From Theodicy to Anti-theodicy : Midrashic Accusations of God's Disobedience to Biblical Law / Adam Gregerman. - Appendix: Complete List of Publications. "Complete list of publications [of Alan F. Segal]": Pages 361-367.; Includes bibliographical references (pages 368-402) and index. Text in English with occasional Hebrew quotations translated into English. ||| Segal, Alan F., 1945-2011 Bibliography; Judaism Relations Christianity; Christianity and other religions Judaism; Rabbinical literature History and criticism; Church history Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600; Judaism History Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D; Bible. Old Testament Criticism, interpretation, etc - Segal, Alan F., 19452011 Bibliographie; Judentum Beziehungen Christentum; Christentum und andere Religionen Judentum; Rabbinische Literatur Geschichte und Kritik; Kirchengeschichte Ur- und Frühkirche, ca. 30-600; Judentum Geschichte Zeit nach dem Exil, 586 v. Chr. 210 n. Chr.; Bibel. Altes Testament Kritik, Interpretation usw - [oR-Doki | DOK | ] 820 g.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. Daughters of Hecate unites for the first time research on the problem of gender and magic in three ancient Mediterranean societies: early Judaism, Christianity, and Graeco-Roman culture. The book illuminates the gendering of ancient magic by approaching the topic from three distinct disciplinary perspectives: literary stereotyping, the social application of magic discourse, and material culture. The authors probe the foundations of, processes, and motivations behind gendered stereotypes, beginning with Western culture's earliest associations of women and magic in the Bible and Homer's Odyssey. Daughters of Hecate provides a nuanced exploration of the topic while avoiding reductive approaches. In fact, the essays in this volume uncover complexities and counter-discourses that challenge, rather than reaffirm, many gendered stereotypes taken for granted and reified by most modern scholarship. By combining critical theoretical methods with research into literary and material evidence, Daughters of Hecate interrogates a false association that has persisted from antiquity, to early modern witch hunts, to the present day.…

Hardback. Condition: New. Kimberly B. Stratton investigates the cultural and ideological motivations behind early imaginings of the magician, the sorceress, and the witch in the ancient world. Accusations of magic could carry the death penalty or, at the very least, marginalize the person or group they targeted. But Stratton moves beyond the popular view of these accusations as mere slander. In her view, representations and accusations of sorcery mirror the complex struggle of ancient societies to define authority, legitimacy, and Otherness. Stratton argues that the concept "magic" first emerged as a discourse in ancient Athens where it operated part and parcel of the struggle to define Greek identity in opposition to the uncivilized "barbarian" following the Persian Wars. The idea of magic then spread throughout the Hellenized world and Rome, reflecting and adapting to political forces, values, and social concerns in each society. Stratton considers the portrayal of witches and magicians in the literature of four related periods and cultures: classical Athens, early imperial Rome, pre-Constantine Christianity, and rabbinic Judaism.She compares patterns in their representations of magic and analyzes the relationship between these stereotypes and the social factors that shaped them. Stratton's comparative approach illuminates the degree to which magic was (and still is) a cultural construct that depended upon and reflected particular social contexts. Unlike most previous studies of magic, which treated the classical world separately from antique Judaism, Naming the Witch highlights the degree to which these ancient cultures shared ideas about power and legitimate authority, even while constructing and deploying those ideas in different ways. The book also interrogates the common association of women with magic, denaturalizing the gendered stereotype in the process. Drawing on Michel Foucault's notion of discourse as well as the work of other contemporary theorists, such as Homi K. Bhabha and Bruce Lincoln, Stratton's bewitching study presents a more nuanced, ideologically sensitive approach to understanding the witch in Western history.…

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