Initiation into the Mysteries of the Ancient World, Jan N. Bremmer

Автор: Benjamin A. Edsall
Название: The Reception of Paul and Early Christian Initiation: History and Hermeneutics
ISBN: 1108471315 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108471312
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book highlights how the institutional frame of early Christian initiation shaped interpretations of Paul`s letters to create a foundation for bringing together ancient and modern interpretations and reconstructions of the Apostle`s ministry. This juxtaposition also grounds a reflection on hermeneutics and reception-historical work.

Автор: Cosmopoulos
Название: Bronze Age Eleusis and the Origins of the Eleusinian Mysteries
ISBN: 1107010993 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107010994
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Despite the tremendous popularity of the Eleusinian Mysteries, their origins are unknown and can only be reconstructed with the help of archaeology. This book provides a much-needed synthesis of the archaeology of Eleusis during the Bronze Age and reconstructs the formation and early development of the Eleusinian Mysteries.

Автор: Arūnas Sverdiolas
Название: Initiation & Preservation: Modes of Cultural Philosophy
ISBN: 1634830318 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781634830317
Издательство: Nova Science
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Описание: Traces the appearance of a new generation of Jews in Poland that followed the fall of the communist regime. Today more and more Poles are discovering their Jewish heritage and beginning to seek a means of associating with Judaism and Jewish culture. Reszke analyses this new generation, addressing the question of whether there can be authentic Jewish life in Poland after fifty years of oppression.

Автор: Lindsay C. Watson
Название: Magic in Ancient Greece and Rome
ISBN: 1788312988 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781788312981
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Parting company with the trend in recent scholarship to treat the subject in abstract, highly theoretical terms, Magic in Ancient Greece and Rome proposes that the magic-working of antiquity was in reality a highly pragmatic business, with very clearly formulated aims - often of an exceedingly maligant kind.

In seven chapters, each addressed to an important arm of Greco-Roman magic, the volume discusses the history of the rediscovery and publication of the so-called Greek Magical Papyri, a key source for our understanding of ancient magic; the startling violence of ancient erotic spells and the use of these by women as well as men; the alteration in the landscape of defixio (curse tablet) studies by major new finds and the confirmation these provide that the frequently lethal intent of such tablets must not be downplayed; the use of herbs in magic, considered from numerous perspectives but with an especial focus on the bizarre-seeming rituals and protocols attendant upon their collection; the employment of animals in magic, the factors determining the choice of animal, the uses to which they were put, and the procuring and storage of animal parts, conceivably in a sorcerer's workshop; the witch as a literary construct, the clear homologies between the magical procedures of fictional witches and those documented for real spells, the gendering of the witch-figure and the reductive presentation of sorceresses as old, risible and ineffectual; the issue of whether ancient magicians practised human sacrifice and the illuminating parallels between such accusations and late 20th century accounts of child-murder in the context of perverted Satanic rituals.

By challenging a number of orthodoxies and opening up some underexamined aspects of the subject, this wide-ranging study stakes out important new territory in the field of magical studies.

Автор: Lindsay C. Watson
Название: Magic in Ancient Greece and Rome
ISBN: 178831297X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781788312974
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Parting company with the trend in recent scholarship to treat the subject in abstract, highly theoretical terms, Magic in Ancient Greece and Rome proposes that the magic-working of antiquity was in reality a highly pragmatic business, with very clearly formulated aims - often of an exceedingly maligant kind.

In seven chapters, each addressed to an important arm of Greco-Roman magic, the volume discusses the history of the rediscovery and publication of the so-called Greek Magical Papyri, a key source for our understanding of ancient magic; the startling violence of ancient erotic spells and the use of these by women as well as men; the alteration in the landscape of defixio (curse tablet) studies by major new finds and the confirmation these provide that the frequently lethal intent of such tablets must not be downplayed; the use of herbs in magic, considered from numerous perspectives but with an especial focus on the bizarre-seeming rituals and protocols attendant upon their collection; the employment of animals in magic, the factors determining the choice of animal, the uses to which they were put, and the procuring and storage of animal parts, conceivably in a sorcerer's workshop; the witch as a literary construct, the clear homologies between the magical procedures of fictional witches and those documented for real spells, the gendering of the witch-figure and the reductive presentation of sorceresses as old, risible and ineffectual; the issue of whether ancient magicians practised human sacrifice and the illuminating parallels between such accusations and late 20th century accounts of child-murder in the context of perverted Satanic rituals.

By challenging a number of orthodoxies and opening up some underexamined aspects of the subject, this wide-ranging study stakes out important new territory in the field of magical studies.