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Hardback. Condizione: New. Sortilege-the making of decisions by casting lots-was widely practiced in the Mediterranean world during the period known as late antiquity, between the third and eighth centuries CE. In My Lots are in Thy Hands: Sortilege and its Practitioners in Late Antiquity, AnneMarie Luijendijk and William Klingshirn have collected fourteen essays that examine late antique lot divination, especially but not exclusively through texts preserved in Greek, Latin, Coptic, and Syriac. Employing the overlapping perspectives of religious studies, classics, anthropology, economics, and history, contributors study a variety of topics, including the hermeneutics and operations of divinatory texts, the importance of diviners and their instruments, and the place of faith and doubt in the search for hidden order in a seemingly random world.…

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Hardback. Condizione: New. Sortilege-the making of decisions by casting lots-was widely practiced in the Mediterranean world during the period known as late antiquity, between the third and eighth centuries CE. In My Lots are in Thy Hands: Sortilege and its Practitioners in Late Antiquity, AnneMarie Luijendijk and William Klingshirn have collected fourteen essays that examine late antique lot divination, especially but not exclusively through texts preserved in Greek, Latin, Coptic, and Syriac. Employing the overlapping perspectives of religious studies, classics, anthropology, economics, and history, contributors study a variety of topics, including the hermeneutics and operations of divinatory texts, the importance of diviners and their instruments, and the place of faith and doubt in the search for hidden order in a seemingly random world.…

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardback. Condizione: New. Sortilege-the making of decisions by casting lots-was widely practiced in the Mediterranean world during the period known as late antiquity, between the third and eighth centuries CE. In My Lots are in Thy Hands: Sortilege and its Practitioners in Late Antiquity, AnneMarie Luijendijk and William Klingshirn have collected fourteen essays that examine late antique lot divination, especially but not exclusively through texts preserved in Greek, Latin, Coptic, and Syriac. Employing the overlapping perspectives of religious studies, classics, anthropology, economics, and history, contributors study a variety of topics, including the hermeneutics and operations of divinatory texts, the importance of diviners and their instruments, and the place of faith and doubt in the search for hidden order in a seemingly random world.…

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Condizione: New.

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Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

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Hardcover. Condizione: New. &Uumlber den AutorAnneMarie Luijendijk, ThD (2005), Harvard University, is Professor of Religion at Princeton University. She researches early Christianity and late antique manuscript culture. Her publications include a new Copti.

Hardback. Condizione: New. Sortilege-the making of decisions by casting lots-was widely practiced in the Mediterranean world during the period known as late antiquity, between the third and eighth centuries CE. In My Lots are in Thy Hands: Sortilege and its Practitioners in Late Antiquity, AnneMarie Luijendijk and William Klingshirn have collected fourteen essays that examine late antique lot divination, especially but not exclusively through texts preserved in Greek, Latin, Coptic, and Syriac. Employing the overlapping perspectives of religious studies, classics, anthropology, economics, and history, contributors study a variety of topics, including the hermeneutics and operations of divinatory texts, the importance of diviners and their instruments, and the place of faith and doubt in the search for hidden order in a seemingly random world.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Sortilege--the making of decisions by casting lots--was widely practiced in the Mediterranean world during the period known as late antiquity, between the third and eighth centuries CE. In My Lots are in Thy Hands: Sortilege and its Practitioners in Late Antiquity, AnneMarie Luijendijk and William Klingshirn have collected fourteen essays that examine late antique lot divination, especially but not exclusively through texts preserved in Greek, Latin, Coptic, and Syriac. Employing the overlapping perspectives of religious studies, classics, anthropology, economics, and history, contributors study a variety of topics, including the hermeneutics and operations of divinatory texts, the importance of diviners and their instruments, and the place of faith and doubt in the search for hidden order in a seemingly random world. …

Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 188. E.J. Brill, Leiden, 2019. First edition. In-8, xvii & 392 pages. Original hardcover, a fine copy. From the library of Egyptologist Charles Cornell Van Siclen III (VSX). Contents: The literature of lot divination / AnneMarie Luijendijk and William E. Klingshirn -- The instruments of lot divination / William E. Klingshirn -- Fateful spasms : palmomancy and late antique lot divination / Salvatore Costanza -- Herme_neiai in manuscripts of John's Gospel : an aid to bibliomancy / Kevin Wilkinson -- Hermeneutics and divination : a unique Syriac Biblical manuscript as an oracle of interpretation / Jeff W. Childers -- Secondhand homer / Michael Meerson -- Sortes biblicae judaicae / Pieter W. van der Horst -- The sortes barberinianae within the tradition of oracular texts / Randall Stewart -- Oxyrhynchus and oracles in late antiquity / Alexander Kocar -- Sortes, scribality, and syncretism: ritual experts and the great tradition in Byzantine Egypt / David Frankfurter -- Sortilege between divine ordeals and "secular" justice : aspects of jurisdiction in (ritual) texts from Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt / Franziska Naether -- Freakonomika : oracle as economic indicator in Roman Egypt / David M. Ratzan -- "I do not wish to be rich" : the 'barbarian' Christian Tatian responds to sortes / Laura Salah Nasrallah -- "Only do not be of two minds" : doubt in Christian lot divination / AnneMarie Luijendijk. Language: English. This book ships from the USA, shipping costs will be updated accordingly (TXR). Relevant subjects: Egypt: Greco-Roman, Religion & Magic. …

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Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 392 pages. 9.50x6.25x1.25 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.