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Published: 1994
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Magika Hiera
Author: Christopher A. Faraone
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 0195111400
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnnotation This collection challenges the tendency among scholars of ancient Greece to see magical and religious ritual as mutually exclusive and to ignore "magical" practices in Greek religion. The contributors survey specific bodies of archaeological, epigraphical, and papyrological evidence formagical practices in the Greek world, and, in each case, determine whether the traditional dichotomy between magic and religion helps in any way to conceptualize the objective features of the evidence examined. Contributors include Christopher A. Faraone, J.H.M. Strubbe, H.S. Versnel, Roy Kotansky, John Scarborough, Samuel Eitrem, Fritz Graf, John J. Winkler, Hans Dieter Betz, and C.R. Phillips.
Studies in the Iconography of Northwest Semitic Inscribed Seals
Author: Benjamin Sass
Publisher: Saint-Paul
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9783525537602
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDictionary of the North-west Semitic Inscriptions
Author: Jacob Hoftijzer
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 668
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeware the Evil Eye
Author: John H Elliott
Publisher: James Clarke & Company
Published: 2016-04-28
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 0227905261
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus of Nazareth makes reference to one of the oldest beliefs in the ancient world - the malignity of an Evil Eye. The Holy Scriptures in their original languages contain no less than twenty-four references to the Evil Eye, although this is obscured by most modern Bible translations. John H. Elliott's Beware the Evil Eye describes this belief and associated practices, its history, its voluminous appearances in ancient cultures, and the extensive research devoted to it over the centuries in order to unravel this enigma for readers who have never heard of the Evil Eye and its presence in the Bible. This is the first of a four-volume work on the Evil Eye.
Beware the Evil Eye Volume 4
Author: John H. Elliott
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2017-04-25
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 1498230725
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis first full-scale study of the Evil Eye in the Bible and the biblical communities has traced in four volumes evidence of Evil Eye belief and practice in the ancient world from Mesopotamia (c. 3000 BCE) to Late Roman Antiquity (c. 600 CE). The fourth and final volume considers the literary and material evidence of the unabated thriving of Evil Eye belief and practice in Israel following the destruction of the Jerusalem temple in 70 CE (chapter 1) and in early Christianity (chapter 2) through Late Antiquity (500-600 CE), with a brief reference to Evil Eye lore in early Islam. Numerous cross-references relate the subject matter of this volume to that of the previous three. A concluding Epilogue (chapter 3) offers some final thoughts on this survey of Evil Eye belief and practice in antiquity and their role in conceptualizing and combatting the pernicious forces of evil in daily life. Beside presenting the first full-scale monograph on the Evil Eye in the Bible and the biblical communities (volumes 3 and 4), the volumes summarize a century of research since the milestone two-volume study of Siegfried Seligmann, Der bose Blick und Verwandtes (1910), and they describe the ecological, historical, social, and cultural contexts within which the biblical texts are best understood. Throughout the study, the Evil Eye in antiquity is treated not as an instance of vulgar superstition or deluded magic, but as a physiological, psychological, and moral phenomenon whose operation was deemed explicable on rational grounds.
Agyptisches Kulturgut im phonikischen und punischen Sardinien
Author: Günther Hölbl
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 454
ISBN-13: 9789004071827
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the early part of the first century BC, Egyptian cultural artefacts spread to an increasing degree into Palestine and Syria and (via the Greeks and Phoenicians) into the Greek, Italian and Western Phoenician spheres. Following a presentation of the Near Eastern background and a survey of Sardinian findspots, this work lists the types of monument found on Sardinia (from the 8th c. to the Roman period). In the case of both amulets (gods in human and animal form) and scarabs made if steatite and fayence an attempt is made, using a carefully developed typology (both of material and form) and other statistical criteria, to derive a characterisation of groups of differing origin (Egyptian, Eastern Phoenician, Punic). These objects reflect the expansion and adaptation of polupar Egyptian magic. Even the Egyptian motifs on hard-stone Punic scarabs and precious-metal artefacts have a religious significance, which is very closely related to Egyptian concepts. In the same way the Egyptian elements on Punic steles and portions of architecture underline their sacral character. This study pursues methodological goals using evidence from the whole of Mediterranean area.
The Transformation of Greek Amulets in Roman Imperial Times
Author: Christopher A. Faraone
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2018-04-20
Total Pages: 504
ISBN-13: 0812249356
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFeaturing more than 120 illustrations, The Transformation of Greek Amulets in Roman Imperial Times is an essential reference for those interested in the religion, culture, and history of the ancient Mediterranean.
Babylonian Magic and Sorcery
Author: Leonard W. King
Publisher: Weiser Books
Published: 2000-09-15
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780877289340
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1896, this text contains the cunieform text of 60 clay tablets written between 669-625 BC. These tablets were inscribed with prayers and religious compositions of a devotional and magical character and there is little doubt that they were compiled from Babylonian sources.
