Forbidden Oracles? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Forbidden Oracles? write by AnneMarie Luijendijk. This book was released on 2014-08-01. Forbidden Oracles? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This book centers on The Gospel of the Lots of Mary, a previously unknown text preserved in a fifth- or sixth-century Coptic miniature codex. It presents the first critical edition and translation of this new text. My book is also a project about religious praxis and authority, as I situate the manuscript within the context of practices of and debates around divination in the ancient Mediterranean world."--Preface, p. [vii].
Jesus the Oracle
Jesus the Oracle - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jesus the Oracle write by Annelies Gisela Moeser. This book was released on 2023-09-25. Jesus the Oracle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Jesus the Oracle, Annelies Gisela Moeser reads Jesus’s journey from Capernaum to Jerusalem in Mark’s gospel through the cultural context of second/third century Roman Egypt. Moeser provides a rich description of the Egyptian practice of oracles, including processional oracles, to build a model with which to read Mark. This prism brings attention to descriptions of Jesus’s supernatural knowledge and wisdom, such as in the story of the Rich Man (Mk 10:17–22). In contrast to Clement of Alexandria’s homily on the Rich Man which counseled detachment from possessions, this reading from a non-elite perspective considers Jesus’s advice to be more radical. This model of processional oracles highlights the importance of access to the divine, including by non-elite crowds, by persons with disabilities (e.g., in comparing Bartimaeus [Mk 10:46–52] with Gemellus Horion of Karanis [a town in Egypt]), and by children. Traditional Egyptian religion upheld the existing sociopolitical regime. However, Jesus’s procession and proclamation of the basileia (reign) of G*d subverts the Roman world order and that of their local, elite allies.
Ancient Christians and the Power of Curses
Ancient Christians and the Power of Curses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ancient Christians and the Power of Curses write by Laura Salah Nasrallah. This book was released on 2024-05-31. Ancient Christians and the Power of Curses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book shows how Ancient Christians both used curses and criticized them in ancient Mediterranean religion and society.
Prophets, Prophecy, and Oracles in the Roman Empire
Prophets, Prophecy, and Oracles in the Roman Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prophets, Prophecy, and Oracles in the Roman Empire write by Leslie Kelly. This book was released on 2017-12-06. Prophets, Prophecy, and Oracles in the Roman Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book surveys the uses and function of prophecy, prophets, and oracles among Jews, Christians, and pagans in the first three centuries of the Roman Empire and explores how prophecy and prophetic texts functioned as a common language that enabled religious discourse to develop between these groups. It shows that each of these cultures believed that it was in prophetic texts and prophetic utterances that they could find the surest proof of their religious beliefs and a strong confirmation of their group identity.
At the Temple Gates
At the Temple Gates - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook At the Temple Gates write by Heidi Wendt. This book was released on 2016-08-18. At the Temple Gates available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In his sixth satire, Juvenal speculates about how Roman wives busy themselves while their husbands are away, namely, by entertaining a revolving door of exotic visitors who include a eunuch of the eastern goddess Bellona, an impersonator of Egyptian Anubis, a Judean priestess, and Chaldean astrologers. From these self-proclaimed religious specialists women solicit services ranging from dream interpretation to the coercion of lovers. Juvenal's catalogue suggests the popularity of such "freelance" experts at the turn of the second century and their familiarity to his audience, whom he could expect to get the joke. Heidi Wendt investigates the backdrop of this enthusiasm for the religion of freelance experts by examining their rise during the first two centuries of the Roman Empire. Unlike civic priests and temple personnel, freelance experts had to generate their own authority and legitimacy, often through demonstrations of skill and learning in the streets, in marketplaces, and at the temple gates, among other locations in the Roman world. Wendt argues that these professionals participated in a highly competitive form of religious activity that intersected with multiple areas of specialty, particularly philosophy and medicine. Over the course of the imperial period freelance experts grew increasingly influential, more diverse with respect to their skills and methods, and more assorted in the ethnic coding of their practices. Wendt argues that this context engendered many of the innovative forms of religion that flourished in the second and third centuries, including phenomena linked with Persian Mithras, the Egyptian gods, and the Judean Christ. The evidence for freelance experts in religion is abundant, but scholars of ancient Mediterranean religion have only recently begun to appreciate their impact on the empire's changing religious landscape. At the Temple Gates integrates studies of Judaism, Christianity, mystery cults, astrology, magic, and philosophy to paint a colorful portrait of religious expertise in early Rome.
