Cultural Plurality in Ancient Magical Texts and Practices

Graeco-Egyptian Handbooks and Related Traditions
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-16-156478-9
Verlag: Mohr Siebeck

Buch, Englisch, Band 32, 383 Seiten, Leinen, Format (B × H): 247 mm x 180 mm, Gewicht: 838 g

Reihe: Orientalische Religionen in der Antike

Der vorliegende Sammelband ist das Ergebnis einer Konferenz in Heidelberg im Jahr 2014. Die Beitragenden untersuchen die verschiedenen, facettenreichen Aspekte magischer Texte und Praktiken in der Antike mit besonderem Fokus auf griechisch-ägyptischen magischen Papyri. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf Fragen der kulturellen Vielfalt und Verschmelzung; von früheren ägyptischen, mesopotamischen und griechischen magisch-religiösen Überlieferungen über die neuartigen Entwicklungen im griechisch-römischen Ägypten bis hin zu deren Einbindung in die jüdische und byzantinische Magie.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bortolani, Ljuba Merlina

Furley, William

Quack, Joachim Friedrich

Nagel, Svenja

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Altes Ägypten & Ägyptische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Griechische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Ljuba M. Bortolani/Svenja Nagel: Introduction & Acknowledgements

Part I: Egyptian, Greek and Mesopotamian Traditions of Magic: Different Genres, Perception of the 'Other' and Possible Transcultural Exchange
Franziska Naether: Magical Practices in Egyptian Literary Texts: in Quest of Cultural Plurality - William Furley: Magic and Mystery at Selinus. Another Look at the Getty Hexameters - Daniel Schwemer: Beyond Ereškigal? Mesopotamian Magic Traditions in the Papyri Graecae Magicae

Part II: Cultural Plurality and Fusion in the Graeco-Egyptian Magical Papyri (PGM/PDM)
Single Handbooks and Magical Techniques
Richard Gordon: Compiling P. Lond I 121 = PGM VII in a Transcultural Context - Svenja Nagel: Illuminating Encounters: Reflections on Cultural Plurality in Lamp Divination Rituals - Ljuba M. Bortolani: 'We Are Such Stuff as Dream Oracles Are Made on': Greek and Egyptian Traditions and Divine Personas in the Dream Divination Spells of the Magical Papyri - Christopher A. Faraone: Cultural Plurality in Greek Magical Recipes for Oracular and Protective Statues

Specific Spells and Deities
Joachim Friedrich Quack: The Heliopolitan Ennead and Geb as a Scrofulous Boar in the PGM. Two Case Studies on Cultural Interaction in Late-Antique Magic - Richard Phillips: Traditions of Transformation and Shape-Shifting in PGM XIII 270-77 - Adria Haluszka: Crowns of Hermanubis: Semiotic Fusion and Spells for Better Business in the Magical Papyri - Marcela Ristorto: Love Spell and Hymn to Aphrodite in PGM IV (2891-941)

Part III: Integration and Transformation of Graeco-Egyptian Magic in Jewish and Byzantine Spells
Gideon Bohak/Alessia Bellusci: The Greek Prayer to Helios in Sefer Ha-Razim, in Light of New Textual Evidence - Michael Zellmann-Rohrer: Incantations in Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Greek: Change and Continuity.

Über Autor(innen)

Furley, William
Born 1953; 1979 PhD; since 2003 Associate Professor of Classics, University of Heidelberg; Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of Classical Studies (School of Advanced Studies), London.

Bortolani, Ljuba Merlina
Born 1980; studied Classics and Egyptology; 2012 PhD; since 2017 post-doc researcher at the department of Classical Philology at the University of Heidelberg.

Nagel, Svenja
Born 1984; studied Egyptology and Classical Archaeology; 2015 PhD; since 2017 post-doc researcher at the Institute of Egyptology at the University of Heidelberg.

Quack, Joachim Friedrich
Born 1966; studied Egyptology, Semitic Studies, Biblical Archaeology, Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Pre- and Early History in Tübingen and Paris; 1990 Magister; 1993 Dr. phil.; 2003 Habilitation at the FU Berlin; Professor of Egyptology at the University of Heidelberg.

Ljuba Merlina Bortolani (Herausgegeben von)
Born 1980; studied Classics and Egyptology; 2012 PhD; since 2017 post-doc researcher at the department of Classical Philology at the University of Heidelberg.

William Furley (Herausgegeben von)
Born 1953; 1979 PhD; since 2003 Associate Professor of Classics, University of Heidelberg; Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of Classical Studies (School of Advanced Studies), London.

Svenja Nagel (Herausgegeben von)
Born 1984; studied Egyptology and Classical Archaeology; 2015 PhD; since 2017 post-doc researcher at the Institute of Egyptology at the University of Heidelberg.

Joachim Friedrich Quack (Herausgegeben von)
Born 1966; studied Egyptology, Semitic Studies, Biblical Archaeology, Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Pre- and Early History in Tübingen and Paris; 1990 Magister; 1993 Dr. phil.; 2003 Habilitation at the FU Berlin; Professor of Egyptology at the University of Heidelberg.

Ljuba Merlina Bortolani (Herausgegeben von)
Born 1980; studied Classics and Egyptology; 2012 PhD; since 2017 post-doc researcher at the department of Classical Philology at the University of Heidelberg.

William Furley (Herausgegeben von)
Born 1953; 1979 PhD; since 2003 Associate Professor of Classics, University of Heidelberg; Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of Classical Studies (School of Advanced Studies), London.

Svenja Nagel (Herausgegeben von)
Born 1984; studied Egyptology and Classical Archaeology; 2015 PhD; since 2017 post-doc researcher at the Institute of Egyptology at the University of Heidelberg.

Joachim Friedrich Quack (Herausgegeben von)
Born 1966; studied Egyptology, Semitic Studies, Biblical Archaeology, Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Pre- and Early History in Tübingen and Paris; 1990 Magister; 1993 Dr. phil.; 2003 Habilitation at the FU Berlin; Professor of Egyptology at the University of Heidelberg.