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Priests, tongues, and rites : the London-Leiden magical manuscripts and translation in Egyptian ritual (100-300 CE) / by Jacco Dieleman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dieleman, Jacco.
- Series:
- Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ; v. 153.
- Religions in the Graeco-Roman world, 0927-7633 ; v. 153
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Magic--Egypt.
- Magic.
- Rites and ceremonies--Egypt.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- Bilingualism--Egypt--History--To 1500.
- Bilingualism.
- Egyptian language--Papyri, Demotic.
- Egyptian language.
- Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri)--Egypt.
- Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri).
- Egypt--Civilization--332 B.C.-638 A.D.
- Egypt.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (372 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiten ; Boston : Brill, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book is an investigation into the sphere of production and use of two related bilingual magical handbooks found as part of a larger collection of magical and alchemical manuscripts around 1828 in the hills surrounding Luxor, Egypt. Both handbooks, dating to the Roman period, contain an assortment of recipes for magical rites in the Demotic and Greek language. The library which comprises these two handbooks is nowadays better known as the Theban Magical Library. The book traces the social and cultural milieu of the composers, compilers and users of the extant spells through a combination of philology, sociolinguistics and cultural analysis. To anybody working on Greco-Roman Egypt, ancient magic, and bilingualism this study is of significant importance.
- Contents:
- Preliminary material
- INTRODUCTION
- PRESENTATION OF THE SOURCES P. LEIDEN I 384 AND P. LONDON-LEIDEN
- THE USE OF SCRIPT
- THE FORM AND FUNCTION OF BILINGUALISM
- DIVERSITY IN RHETORIC
- OF PRIESTS AND PRESTIGE THE NEED FOR AN AUTHORITATIVE TRADITION
- TOWARDS A MODEL OF TEXTUAL TRANSMISSION
- APPENDICES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX OF PASSAGES
- INDEX OF SUBJECTS
- RELIGIONS IN THE GRAECO-ROMAN WORLD.
- Notes:
- Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--Leiden University, 2003).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-328) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-86741-8
- 9786610867417
- 90-474-0674-5
- 1-4337-0749-7
- OCLC:
- 437175312
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789047406747 DOI
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