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Forbidden oracles? : The Gospel of the Lots of Mary / AnneMarie Luijendijk.

Van Pelt Library BF1761 .L87 2014
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English
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Physical Description:
xii, 208 pages : facsimiles ; 24 cm.
Place of Publication:
Tùˆbingen : Mohr Siebeck, [2014]
Summary:
AnneMarie Luijendijk presents for the first time a new early Christian divinatory text, preserved in a fifth- or sixth-century Coptic miniature codex, and places it within the context of practices of and debates about divination in the ancient Mediterranean world. Book jacket.
Contents:
  • Part I
  • Chapter 1 The Gospel of the Lots of Mary 13
  • The Gospel 18
  • A Sacred Divinatory Book of Isis and Hermes "Evangelus" 25
  • Gospel as Good News 26
  • Mary the Mother of the Lord Jesus Christ 28
  • Angels 32
  • God, Lord, and Jesus Christ 35
  • Chapter 2 Encountering a Miniature Divination Codex 40
  • Codicology 40
  • Palaeography 44
  • Piecing together a Provenance 47
  • The Shrine of Saint Colluthus 49
  • Miniature Codex 51
  • Chapter 3 A Three-Way Conversation: Book, Diviner, and Client 57
  • Instructions for Other Lot Texts 58
  • Bibliomancy 62
  • The Diviner 65
  • The Clientele 69
  • Far from Home 73
  • Vocabulary of Violence 74
  • Do Not Doubt 77
  • Chapter 4 A New Voice in the Discourse on Divination 79
  • The Threat of Knowledge to Authority 80
  • Athanasius of Alexandria: The Triumph of the Incarnate Word and the Holy Man 82
  • Church Regulations Rejecting Diviners 84
  • Anastasius of Sinai Embraces Christian Divination 86
  • Divination and Intramural Christian Debate: Athanasius Again 88
  • The Sortes Sanctorum: A Prohibited Divinatory Text 90
  • Conclusions 91
  • Part II
  • Text and Translation 95
  • Images 145
  • Image Credit Information 167.
Notes:
  • Original text in Coptic with parallel English translation; critical matter in English.
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:
  • 9783161528590
  • 316152859X
OCLC:
888956492

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