Author: Noegel, Scott; Joel Walker und Brannon Wheeler:
Title: Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World. With 11 figures in the text. (= Magic in History)
Description: University Park: Pennsylvania State University. 2003 XI, [3], 255, [3 blank] pp. Original illustrated paperback. Octavo, 23,3 x 15,5 cm (Very good, as new). Contents: Introduction; Part I: Locating Magic. - Part II: Prayer, Magic, and Ritual: Thessalos of Tralles and Cultural Exchange; The Prayer of Mary in the Magical Book of Mary and the Angels; Hebrew, Hebrew Everywhere? Notes on the Interpretation of Voces Magicae; Magic and Society in Late Sasanian Iraq. - Part III: Dreams and Divination: The Open Portal. Dreams and Divine Power in Pharaonic Egypt; Viscera and the Divine. Dreams as the Divinatory Bridge Between the Corporeal and the Incorporeal; Stars and the Egyptian Priesthood in the Graeco-Roman Period; Divination and Its Discontents. Finding and Questioning Meaning in Ancient and Medieval Judaism. - Part IV: The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars: Heaven and Earth. Divine-Human relations an Mesopotamian Celestial Divination; Astral Religion and the Representation of Divinity. The Cases of Ugarit and Judah; A New Star on the Horizon. Astral Christologies and Stellar Debates in Early Christian Discourse; At the Seizure of the Moon. The Absence of the Moon in Mithras Liturgy. Contributors, Index. - Erste Ausgabe. Illustrierte Originalbroschur. Wohlerhalten. - First edition. - RFM - Weitere Bilder auf Anfrage oder auf unserer Homepage. ISBN: 0271022582 Free shipping to Germany, shipping costs abroad 6,00 EUR.

Keywords: [Okkultismus Occulta Astrologie Gebet Magie; Geschichte] 0271022582


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