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"Greek magical texts sometimes contain peculiar triangular formations created by repeating the same word over and over again in the same column, but leaving off one letter at the beginning or end (or both). Interpretations shifted during the twentieth century: did the words inscribed in these shapes represent the names of diseases or evil demons which were forced to disappear as each letter of the name does? Or were they the work of Roman period scribes representing very different notions? This new study uses a masterly survey of the known examples of these texts to argue for a radical revision of recent views."--

Amulets, Greek --- Inscriptions, Greek --- Amulets, Greek. --- Inscriptions, Greek. --- Magic paraphernalia --- Amulets [Greek ] --- Inscriptions [Greek ] --- Magic paraphernalia. --- Amuletter. --- Inskrifter. --- Greece.

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From the contents: 0Preface / Abbreviations for Corpora of Magical Texts;0PART I: ARCHAEOLOGY : Distribution / Shapes / Media; 0PART II: IMAGES: Action Figures / Domestic Guardians / Pharaonic and Ptolemaic Images; 0PART III. TEXTS: Prayers / Incantations / Framing Speech Acts / Conclusions and Further Trajectories; 0APPENDICES: A: Summaries of Recipes for Protective Amulets Worn During Dangerous Rituals (from the longer PGM Handbooks) / B: Summaries of Recipes from a Curative Handbook Embedded in a Magical Handbook (PGM VII 193-214) / C: Summaries of Recipes from Smaller Fragments of Curative or Protective Handbooks / D: Summaries of Recipes from a Fragment of a Curative Handbook (Testament of Solomon 18.15-40) / E: Summary of Recipes from a Fragment of an Amulet Handbook (S & D 26-39) / F: Summary of Recipes Preserved by Marcellus of Bordeaux / G: Summary of Recipes Preserved by Alexander of Tralles / H: Summary of Recipes Preserved by Aelius Promotus / I: Summary of Recipes Preserved by Dioscorides, Notes, Glossary of Authors and Texts, Glossary of Terms, Bibliography; 0INDICES: General Index / Index Locorum Ancient Words.

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"Making Amulets Christian: Artefacts, Scribes, and Contexts examines Greek amulets with Christian elements from late antique Egypt in order to discern the processes whereby a customary practice--the writing of incantations on amulets--changed in an increasingly Christian context. It considers how the formulation of incantations and amulets changed as the Christian church became the prevailing religious institution in Egypt in the last centuries of the Roman empire. Theodore de Bruyn investigates what we can learn from incantations and amulets containing Christian elements about the cultural and social location of the people who wrote them. He shows how incantations and amulets were indebted to rituals or ritualizing behavior of Christians. This study analyzes different types of amulets and the ways in which they incorporate Christian elements. By comparing the formulation and writing of individual amulets that are similar to one another, one can observe differences in the culture of the scribes of these materials. It argues for 'conditioned individuality' in the production of amulets. On the one hand, amulets manifest qualities that reflect the training and culture of the individual writer. On the other hand, amulets reveal that individual writers were shaped, whether consciously or inadvertently, by the resources they drew upon-by what is called 'tradition' in the field of religious studies

Amulets, Greek --- Church history --- Magic --- Incantations. --- Amulets, Greek. --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Primitive and early church. --- 30-600. --- Egypt. --- 291.33 --- 291.33 Directe invloed op de goddelijke wil: hekserij; bezweringen; magie, toverij --- Directe invloed op de goddelijke wil: hekserij; bezweringen; magie, toverij --- Incantations --- Christianity --- Amulets, Greek - Egypt --- Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 --- Magic - Religious aspects - Christianity --- Amulettes --- 30-600 --- Incantations, Egyptian. --- Egypt --- Church history.