My Lots Are in Thy Hands: Sortilege and Its Practitioners in Late Antiquity

William E Klingshirn

ISBN 10: 9004384103 / ISBN 13: 9789004384101

Published by Brill Okt 2018, 2018

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Neuware - The fourteen essays in this work examine late antique lot divination in the Mediterranean world, employing the overlapping perspectives of religious studies, classics, anthropology, economics, and history.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: My Lots Are in Thy Hands: Sortilege and Its Practitioners in Late Antiquity
• Publisher: Brill Okt 2018
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004384103
• ISBN 13: 9789004384101
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 236W x 160H x 28D millimeters 236 millimeters width by 160 millimeters height by 28 millimeters depth
• Weight: 680 grams

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Synopsis

Sortilege―the making of decisions by casting lots―was widely practiced in the Mediterranean world during the period known as late antiquity, between the third and eighth centuries CE. In My Lots are in Thy Hands: Sortilege and its Practitioners in Late Antiquity, AnneMarie Luijendijk and William Klingshirn have collected fourteen essays that examine late antique lot divination, especially but not exclusively through texts preserved in Greek, Latin, Coptic, and Syriac. Employing the overlapping perspectives of religious studies, classics, anthropology, economics, and history, contributors study a variety of topics, including the hermeneutics and operations of divinatory texts, the importance of diviners and their instruments, and the place of faith and doubt in the search for hidden order in a seemingly random world.

About the Author

AnneMarie Luijendijk, ThD (2005), Harvard University, is Professor of Religion at Princeton University. She researches early Christianity and late antique manuscript culture. Her publications include a new Coptic divinatory text: Forbidden Oracles: The Gospel of the Lots of Mary.

William Klingshirn, Ph.D. (1985), Stanford University, is Professor of Greek and Latin at the Catholic University of America. He has published numerous articles on divination in the Mediterranean world and is currently writing a book on diviners in late antiquity.

Contributors are: Jeff Childers, Salvatore Costanza, David Frankfurter, William E. Klingshirn, Alexander Kocar, AnneMarie Luijendijk, Michael Meerson, Franziska Naether, Laura S. Nasrallah, David M. Ratzan, Randall Stewart, Pieter W. van der Horst, Kevin W. Wilkinson