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A Coptic handbook of ritual power (P. Macq. I 1)
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ISBN: 9782503531700 2503531709 Year: 2013 Volume: 1 Publisher: Turnhout : [Sydney] NSW Australia : Ancient Cultures Research Centre, Macquarie University, Brepols ;

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"This volume publishes a new Coptic handbook of ritual power, comprising a complete 20 page parchment codex from the second half of the first millennium AD. It consists of an invocation including both Christian and Gnostic elements, ritual instructions, and a list of twenty-seven spells to cure demonic possession, various ailments, the effects of magic, or to bring success in love and business. The codex is not only a substantial new addition to the corpus of magical texts from Egypt, but, in its opening invocation, also provides new evidence for Sethian Gnostic thought in Coptic texts."--

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