Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late...

Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World

Scott B. Noegel, Joel Thomas Walker, Brannon M. Wheeler
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In the religious systems of ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Mediterranean, gods and demigods were neither abstract nor distant, but communicated with mankind through signs and active intervention. Men and women were thus eager to interpret, appeal to, and even control the gods and their agents. In ''Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World'', a distinguished array of scholars explores the many ways in which people in the ancient world sought to gain access to-or, in some cases, to bind or escape from-the divine powers of heaven and earth. Grounded in a variety of disciplines, including Assyriology, Classics, and early Islamic history, the 15 essays in this volume cover a broad geographic area: Greece, Egypt, Syria-Palestine, Mesopotamia, and Persia. Topics include celestial divination in early Mesopotamia, the civic festivals of classical Athens, and Christian magical papyri from Coptic Egypt. Moving forward to Late Antiquity, we see how Judaism, Christianity, and Islam each incorporated many aspects of ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman religion into their own prayers, rituals, and conceptions. Even if they no longer conceived of the sun, moon, and the stars as eternal or divine, Christians, Jews, and Muslims often continued to study the movements of the heavens as a map on which divine power could be read.
Année:
2003
Editeur::
Pennsylvania State University Press
Langue:
english
Pages:
270
ISBN 10:
0271022582
ISBN 13:
9780271022574
Collection:
Magic in history
Fichier:
PDF, 11.85 MB
IPFS:
CID , CID Blake2b
english, 2003
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