Ancient Magic Ritual Power (62 results)

Hardback. Condition: Good. This book is a treasure-trove of material illustrating folk beliefs and practices of a people in Egypt spanning more than a thousand years.--Birger A. Pearson, University of California, BerkeleyAn excellent collection of magical texts. I teach my students that there is no strict dividing line between magic and religion, even in Christianity, and this is a vital sourcebook to make this truth a reality for them.--Kurt Rudolph, Philipps Universitü¾??¼t, Marburg, and author of Gnosis: The Nature and History of GnosticismThis book is well organized and exceedingly well edited. There are helpful introductions to each chapter and, even more, to each selection. [It] could scarcely be more user friendly for lay readers. There exists nothing like it, at least nothing so accessible to nonexperts.--Robert Segal, Lancaster University, editor of The Gnostic Jung.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. This book is a treasure-trove of material illustrating folk beliefs and practices of a people in Egypt spanning more than a thousand years.--Birger A. Pearson, University of California, BerkeleyAn excellent collection of magical texts. I teach my students that there is no strict dividing line between magic and religion, even in Christianity, and this is a vital sourcebook to make this truth a reality for them.--Kurt Rudolph, Philipps Universitü¾??¼t, Marburg, and author of Gnosis: The Nature and History of GnosticismThis book is well organized and exceedingly well edited. There are helpful introductions to each chapter and, even more, to each selection. [It] could scarcely be more user friendly for lay readers. There exists nothing like it, at least nothing so accessible to nonexperts.--Robert Segal, Lancaster University, editor of The Gnostic Jung.…

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. Minor shelf wear. Otherwise a square, tight, unmarked book. xiii, 407 pp.

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Softcover. Condition: Good. Stated First Edition; First Printing. A few pen marks, mostly at pp.382-383, and a felt-tip mark on the bottom edge of the book; square, uncreased spine; soft cover shows short wrinkles around the top right rear corner, tiny corner folds and a few very short edge creases, and light surface wear around heel edges; otherwise well-kept. xiii, 407pp. …

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Trade Paperback. Condition: Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. Smal clip at corner of title page. xiii, 409 p. w/appendix, endnotes, glossary, bibliography.

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Softbound. Condition: Very Good. Octavo, paper covers, x, 486 pp., 12 b/w illustrations For students and scholars of ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern religion and culture, including readers in Egyptology, ancient Near Eastern studies, the Hebrew Bible, Judaica, classical Greco-Roman studies, early Christianity and patristics, and Coptology. Marvin Meyer, Ph.D. (1979) in Religion, Claremont Graduate School, is Professor of Religion at Chapman University, Orange, California, and Director of the Coptic Magical Texts Project of the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity. He has published extensively on ancient Gnostic and magical traditions.Paul Mirecki, Th.D. (1986) in Religious Studies, Harvard Divinity School, is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. His publications include a wide variety of articles on ancient Mediterranean religions with a primary focus on Coptic papyrology. This volume contains a series of provocative essays that explore expressions of magic and ritual power in the ancient world. The essays are authored by leading scholars in the fields of Egyptology, ancient Near Eastern studies, the Hebrew Bible, Judaica, classical Greek and Roman studies, early Christianity and patristics, and Coptology.Throughout the book the essays examine the terms employed in descriptions of ancient magic. From this examination comes a clarification of magic as a polemical term of exclusion but also an understanding of the classical Egyptian and early Greek conceptions of magic as a more neutral category of inclusion.This book should prove to be foundational for future scholarly studies of ancient magic and ritual power. Articles are "Trading Places," Jonathan Z. Smith, "Excluding the Charming: The Development of the Greek Concept of Magic," Fritz Graf, "The Religious, Social, and Legal Parameters of Traditional Egyptian Magic," Robert K. Ritner, "Hittite Military Rituals," Richard H. Beal, "Ritual Meals in the Hittitie Cult," Billie Jean Collins, "Magical Uses of Ancient Mesopotamian Festivals of the Dead," J. A. Scurlock, "The 'Witch' of En-Dor, 1 Samuel 28, and Ancietn Near Eastern Necromancy," Brian B. Schmidt, "The Magician as Outsider in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament," Stephen D. Ricks, "Charming Criminals: Classification of Magic in the Babylonian Talmud," Jonathan Seidel, "Magical Piety in Ancient and Medieval Jewry," Michael D. Swartz, "The Adjuration of the Prince of the Presence: Performative Utterance in a Jewish Ritual," Rebecca Lesses, "New Greek Magical and Divinatory Texts in Berlin," William M. Brashear, "Greek Exorcistic Amulets," Roy Kotansky, "Supernatural Assistants in the Greek Magical Papyri," Leda Jean Ciraolo, "The Mystodokos and the Dark-Eyes Maidens: Multicultural Influences in a Late-Hellenistic Incantation," Christopher A. Faraone, "'May she neither eat nor drink': Love Magic and Vows of Abstinence," David Martinez, "Defining the Dreadful: remarks on the Greek Child-Killing Demon," Sarah Iles Johnston, "Singing Away Snakebite: Lucan's Magical Cures," Oliver Philips, "Satan's Fall in Coptic Magic," Jacques van der Vliet, "Magical Bowls and Manichaeans," Jason David BeDuhn, "Magic, Women, and Heresy in the Late Empire: The Case of the Priscillianists," Todd Breyfogle, "Narrating Power: The Theory and Practice of the Magical Histriola in Ritual Spells," David Frankfurter. …

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Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Library sticker on front cover. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,700grams, ISBN:9780691004587.…

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. octavo paperback 407 pp. The book has never been read. There are no flaws to the cover or text block. This is the first book which translates many ancient Christian magical texts from the earliest days of Christianity when the Copts and Greeks first adopted the religion. An essential part of the history of the religion.…

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