Book ID: CBB000470951

Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World (2003)

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Noegel, Scott B. (Editor)
Walker, Joel Thomas (Editor)
Wheeler, Brannon M. (Editor)


Pennsylvania State University Press


Publication Date: 2003
Physical Details: xi + 255 pp.; ill.; map; references; index
Language: English

Description Contents:


Includes Chapters

Chapter Noegel, Scott B.; Walker, Joel T.; Wheeler, Brannon M. (2003) Introduction. In: Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World (p. 1). unapi

Chapter Smith, Jonathan Z. (2003) Here, There, and Anywhere. In: Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World (p. 21). unapi

Chapter Moyer, Ian (2003) Thessalos of Tralles and Cultural Exchange. In: Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World (p. 39). unapi

Chapter Meyer, Marvin (2003) The Prayer of Mary in the Magical Book of Mary and the Angels. In: Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World (p. 57). unapi

Chapter Bohak, Gideon (2003) Hebrew, Hebrew Everywhere?: Notes on the Interpretation of Voces Magicae. In: Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World (p. 69). unapi

Chapter Morony, Michael G. (2003) Magic and Society in Late Sasanian Iraq. In: Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World (p. 83). unapi

Chapter Szpakowska, Kasia (2003) The Open Portal: Dreams and Divine Power in Pharaonic Egypt. In: Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World (p. 111). unapi

Chapter Struck, Peter (2003) Viscera and the Divine: Dreams as the Divinatory Bridge Between the Corporeal and the Incorporeal. In: Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World (p. 125). unapi

Chapter Dieleman, Jacco (2003) Stars and the Egyptian Priesthood in the Graeco-Roman Period. In: Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World (p. 137). unapi

Chapter Swartz, Michael D. (2003) Divination and Its Discontents: Finding and Questioning Meaning in Ancient and Medieval Judaism. In: Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World (p. 155). unapi

Chapter Rochberg, Francesca (2003) Heaven and Earth: Divine-Human Revelations in Mesopotamian Celestial Divination. In: Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World (p. 169). unapi

Chapter Smith, Mark S. (2003) Astral Religion and the Representation of Divinity: The Cases of Ugarit and Judah. In: Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World (p. 187). unapi

Chapter Denzey, Nicola (2003) A New Star on the Horizon: Astral Christologies and Stellar Debates in Early Christian Discourse. In: Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World (p. 207). unapi

Chapter Edmonds, Radcliffe G., III (2003) At the Seizure of the Moon: The Absence of the Moon in the Mithras Liturgy. In: Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World (p. 223). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Brown, David
Santamaría, Marco Antonio
Verardi, Donato
Andreas Lerch
Glassmeier, Karls-Heinz
Swerdlow, Noel M.
Journals
Cahiers de recherches médiévales et humanistes. Journal of medieval and humanistic studies
The Jewish Quarterly Review
East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine
Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences
Aleph: Historical Studies in Science and Judaism
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Hempen Verlag
Akademische Verlagsanstalt (AVA)
Pennsylvania State University Press
Nauka
MIT Press
Concepts
Astrology
Science and religion
Occult sciences
Astronomy
Divination; prognostication
Judaism
People
Zosimos of Panopolis
Theon of Alexandria
Ptolemy
Plato
Philo Judaeus
Empedocles of Agrigentum
Time Periods
Ancient
Medieval
Qin dynasty (China, 221-207 B.C.)
Renaissance
Han dynasty (China, 202 B.C.-220 A.D.)
20th century
Places
Middle and Near East
Greece
Mesopotamia
Egypt
Rome (Italy)
China
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