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100 1 _aAnneMarie Luijendijk; William E. Klingshirn (Editors)
245 0 0 _aSortilege and its Practitioners in Late Antiquity: My Lots are in Thy Hands.
264 3 1 _aLeiden,
_aBoston:
_bBrill,
_c2019.
300 _a1 online resource.
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505 0 0 _tFront Matter --
_tCopyright page --
_t-- Preface --
_tFigures --
_tAbbreviations --
_tNotes on Contributors --
_tIntroduction --
_tThe Literature of Lot Divination /
_rAnneMarie Luijendijk and William E. Klingshirn --
_tThe Instruments of Lot Divination /
_rWilliam E. Klingshirn --
_tFateful Spasms: Palmomancy and Late Antique Lot Divination /
_rSalvatore Costanza --
_tHermēneiai in Manuscripts of John’s Gospel: an Aid to Bibliomancy /
_rKevin Wilkinson --
_tHermeneutics and Divination: a Unique Syriac Biblical Manuscript as an Oracle of Interpretation /
_rJeff W. Childers --
_tSecondhand Homer /
_rMichael Meerson --
_tSortes Biblicae Judaicae /
_rPieter W. van der Horst --
_tThe Sortes Barberinianae within the Tradition of Oracular Texts /
_rRandall Stewart --
_tOxyrhynchus and Oracles in Late Antiquity /
_rAlexander Kocar --
_tSortes, Scribality, and Syncretism: Ritual Experts and the Great Tradition in Byzantine Egypt /
_rDavid Frankfurter --
_tSortilege between Divine Ordeals and “Secular” Justice: Aspects of Jurisdiction in (Ritual) Texts from Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt /
_rFranziska Naether --
_tFreakonomika: Oracle as Economic Indicator in Roman Egypt /
_rDavid M. Ratzan --
_t“I Do Not Wish to Be Rich”: the ‘Barbarian’ Christian Tatian Responds to Sortes /
_rLaura Salah Nasrallah --
_t“Only Do Not Be of Two Minds”: Doubt in Christian Lot Divination /
_rAnneMarie Luijendijk --
_tBack Matter --
_tBibliography.
520 _aSortilege—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.
650 0 _aChoice by lot
_xHistory
_yTo 1500.
650 0 _aCivilization, Ancient.
650 0 _aDivination in the Bible.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_tMy Lots are in Thy Hands: Sortilege and its Practitioners in Late Antiquity
_dLeiden, Boston : BRILL, 2019,
_z9789004384101
830 0 _aReligions in the Graeco-Roman World
_v188.
830 0 _aReligions in the Graeco-Roman World Online, Supplement 2018, ISBN: 9789004353404.
856 4 _zDOI:
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004385030
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_d48582