Sortilege and its Practitioners in Late Antiquity: My Lots are in Thy Hands.
AnneMarie Luijendijk; William E. Klingshirn (Editors)
Sortilege and its Practitioners in Late Antiquity: My Lots are in Thy Hands. - 1 online resource. - Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 188. Religions in the Graeco-Roman World Online, Supplement 2018, ISBN: 9789004353404. .
Front Matter -- Copyright page -- -- Preface -- Figures -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- The Literature of Lot Divination / The Instruments of Lot Divination / Fateful Spasms: Palmomancy and Late Antique Lot Divination / Hermēneiai in Manuscripts of John’s Gospel: an Aid to Bibliomancy / Hermeneutics and Divination: a Unique Syriac Biblical Manuscript as an Oracle of Interpretation / Secondhand Homer / Sortes Biblicae Judaicae / The Sortes Barberinianae within the Tradition of Oracular Texts / Oxyrhynchus and Oracles in Late Antiquity / Sortes, Scribality, and Syncretism: Ritual Experts and the Great Tradition in Byzantine Egypt / Sortilege between Divine Ordeals and “Secular” Justice: Aspects of Jurisdiction in (Ritual) Texts from Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt / Freakonomika: Oracle as Economic Indicator in Roman Egypt / “I Do Not Wish to Be Rich”: the ‘Barbarian’ Christian Tatian Responds to Sortes / “Only Do Not Be of Two Minds”: Doubt in Christian Lot Divination / Back Matter -- Bibliography. AnneMarie Luijendijk and William E. Klingshirn -- William E. Klingshirn -- Salvatore Costanza -- Kevin Wilkinson -- Jeff W. Childers -- Michael Meerson -- Pieter W. van der Horst -- Randall Stewart -- Alexander Kocar -- David Frankfurter -- Franziska Naether -- David M. Ratzan -- Laura Salah Nasrallah -- AnneMarie Luijendijk --
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.
9789004385030
10.1163/9789004385030 DOI
Choice by lot--History--To 1500.
Civilization, Ancient.
Divination in the Bible.
BF1779.L6
133.3
Sortilege and its Practitioners in Late Antiquity: My Lots are in Thy Hands. - 1 online resource. - Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 188. Religions in the Graeco-Roman World Online, Supplement 2018, ISBN: 9789004353404. .
Front Matter -- Copyright page -- -- Preface -- Figures -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- The Literature of Lot Divination / The Instruments of Lot Divination / Fateful Spasms: Palmomancy and Late Antique Lot Divination / Hermēneiai in Manuscripts of John’s Gospel: an Aid to Bibliomancy / Hermeneutics and Divination: a Unique Syriac Biblical Manuscript as an Oracle of Interpretation / Secondhand Homer / Sortes Biblicae Judaicae / The Sortes Barberinianae within the Tradition of Oracular Texts / Oxyrhynchus and Oracles in Late Antiquity / Sortes, Scribality, and Syncretism: Ritual Experts and the Great Tradition in Byzantine Egypt / Sortilege between Divine Ordeals and “Secular” Justice: Aspects of Jurisdiction in (Ritual) Texts from Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt / Freakonomika: Oracle as Economic Indicator in Roman Egypt / “I Do Not Wish to Be Rich”: the ‘Barbarian’ Christian Tatian Responds to Sortes / “Only Do Not Be of Two Minds”: Doubt in Christian Lot Divination / Back Matter -- Bibliography. AnneMarie Luijendijk and William E. Klingshirn -- William E. Klingshirn -- Salvatore Costanza -- Kevin Wilkinson -- Jeff W. Childers -- Michael Meerson -- Pieter W. van der Horst -- Randall Stewart -- Alexander Kocar -- David Frankfurter -- Franziska Naether -- David M. Ratzan -- Laura Salah Nasrallah -- AnneMarie Luijendijk --
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.
9789004385030
10.1163/9789004385030 DOI
Choice by lot--History--To 1500.
Civilization, Ancient.
Divination in the Bible.
BF1779.L6
133.3