My Lots are in Thy Hands: Sortilege and its Practitioners in Late Antiquity (Religions in the Graeco-roman World)

Luijendijk, AnneMarie (EDT)/ Klingshirn, William (EDT)

Brill（2018/10発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 392 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004384101
• DDC分類 938

Full Description

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.

Contents

Preface

List of Figures

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

1 The Literature of Lot Divination

 AnneMarie Luijendijk and William E. Klingshirn

2 The Instruments of Lot Divination

 William E. Klingshirn

3 Fateful Spasms: Palmomancy and Late Antique Lot Divination

 Salvatore Costanza

4 Hermēneiai in Manuscripts of John's Gospel: an Aid to Bibliomancy

 Kevin Wilkinson

5 Hermeneutics and Magic: a Unique Syriac Biblical Manuscript as an Oracle of Interpretation

 Jeff W. Childers

6 Secondhand Homer

 Michael Meerson

7 Sortes Biblicae Judaicae

 Pieter W. van der Horst

8 The Sortes Barberinianae within the Tradition of Oracular Texts

 Randall Stewart

9 Oxyrhynchus and Oracles in Late Antiquity

 Alexander Kocar

10 Sortes, Scribality, and Syncretism: Ritual Experts and the Great Tradition in Byzantine Egypt

 David Frankfurter

11 Sortilege between Divine Ordeals and "Secular" Justice: Aspects of Jurisdiction in (Ritual) Texts from Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt

 Franziska Naether

12 Freakonomika: Oracle as Economic Indicator in Roman Egypt

 David M. Ratzan

13 "I Do Not Wish to Be Rich": The 'Barbarian' Christian Tatian Responds to Sortes

 Laura Salah Nasrallah

14 "Only Do Not Be of Two Minds": Doubt in Christian Lot Divination

 AnneMarie Luijendijk

Bibliography

Index