Priests, Tongues, and Rites: The London-Leiden Magical Manuscripts and Translation in Egyptian Ritual, 100-300 CE (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World) (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World)
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Book Description
This book is an investigation into the sphere of production and use of two related bilingual magical handbooks found as part of a larger collection of magical and alchemical manuscripts around 1828 in the hills surrounding Luxor, Egypt. Both handbooks, dating to the Roman period, contain an assortment of recipes for magical rites in the Demotic and Greek language. The library which comprises these two handbooks is nowadays better known as the Theban Magical Library.
The book traces the social and cultural milieu of the composers, compilers and users of the extant spells through a combination of philology, sociolinguistics and cultural analysis. To anybody working on Greco-Roman Egypt, ancient magic, and bilingualism this study is of significant importance.
Readership: All those interested in ancient magic, social and cultural history of Greco-Roman Egypt, bilingualism, intellectual history, as well as Egyptologists, classicists, historians of religion.
About the Author
Jacco Dieleman, Ph.D. (2003) in Egyptology, Leiden University is Assistant Professor of Egyptology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He works on the literature and religion of ancient Egypt, with an emphasis on the later periods.
Priests, Tongues, and Rites: The London-Leiden Magical Manuscripts and Translation in Egyptian Ritual, 100-300 CE (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World) (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World),Jacco Dieleman,Brill Academic Publishers,9004141855,332 B.C.-638 A.D,Bilingualism,Civilization,Egypt,History,Interior Design - General,Language,Magic,Magick Studies,New Age / Body, Mind & Spirit,New Age / Parapsychology,Religion,Rites and ceremonies,To 1500
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