Stratton Naming the Witch

Magic, Ideology, and Stereotype in the Ancient World
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-231-51096-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Wasserzeichen (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Gender, Theory, and Religion

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Stratton, Kimberly

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Griechische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1. Magic, Discourse, and Ideology
2. Barbarians, Magic, and Construction of the Other in Athens
3. Mascula Libido: Women, Sex, and Magic in Roman Rhetoric and Ideology
4. My Miracle, Your Magic: Heresy, Authority, and Early Christianities
5. Caution in the Kosher Kitchen: Magic, Identity, and Authority in Rabbinic Literature
Epilogue
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kimberly B. Stratton is an associate professor in the College of Humanities at Carleton University. She grew up in Seattle, holds a B.A. in English and religion from Barnard College, an M.T.S. from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in the history of religions in late antiquity from Columbia University. She has also studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research covers the fields of early Christianity, rabbinic Judaism, and Greco-Roman culture and religion.