Ancient Magic and Ritual Power

by Meyer, Marvin W.; Mirecki, Paul Allan

• ISBN13: 9780391041523
• ISBN10: 0391041525
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-01
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

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Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction	1	(7)
Selected Bibliography	8	(5)
PART ONE DEFINING MAGIC AND RITUAL POWER
Trading Places	13	(16)
Jonathan Z. Smith
Excluding the Charming: The Development of the Greek Concept of Magic	29	(14)
Fritz Graf
The Religious, Social, and Legal Parameters of Traditional Egyptian Magic	43	(20)
Robert K. Ritner
PART TWO MAGIC AND RITUAL POWER IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST
Hittite Military Rituals	63	(14)
Richard H. Beal
Ritual Meals in the Hittite Cult	77	(16)
Billie Jean Collins
Magical Uses of Ancient Mesopotamian Festivals of the Dead	93	(18)
J. A. Scurlock
PART THREE MAGIC AND RITUAL POWER IN JUDAISM AND EARLY CHRISTIANITY
The ``Witch'' of En-Dor, 1 Samuel 28, and Ancient Near Eastern Necromancy	111	(20)
Brian B. Schmidt
The Magician as Outsider in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament	131	(14)
Stephen D. Ricks
Charming Criminals: Classification of Magic in the Babylonian Talmud	145	(22)
Jonathan Seidel
Magical Piety in Ancient and Medieval Judaism	167	(18)
Michael D. Swartz
The Adjuration of the Prince of the Presence: Performative Utterance in a Jewish Ritual	185	(24)
Rebecca Lesses
PART FOUR MAGIC AND RITUAL POWER IN GREEK ANTIQUITY
New Greek Magical and Divinatory Texts in Berlin	209	(34)
William M. Brashear
Greek Exorcistic Amulets	243	(36)
Roy Kotansky
Supernatural Assistants in the Greek Magical Papyri	279	(18)
Leda Jean Ciraolo
The Mystodokos and the Dark-Eyed Maidens: Multicultural Influences on a Latee-Hellenistic Incantation	297	(38)
Christopher A. Faraone
``May she neither eat nor drink'': Love Magic and Vows of Abstinence	335	(26)
David Martinez
Defining the Dreadful: Remarks on the Greek Child-Killing Demon	361	(30)
Sarah Iles Johnston
PART FIVE MAGIC AND RITUAL POWER IN ROMAN AND LATE ANTIQUITY
Singing Away Snakebite: Lucan's Magical Cures	391	(10)
Oliver Phillips
Satan's Fall in Coptic Magic	401	(18)
Jacques van der Vliet
Magical Bowls and Manichaeans	419	(16)
Jason David BeDuhn
Magic, Women, and Heresy in the Late Empire: The Case of the Priscillianists	435	(22)
Todd Breyfogle
CONCLUSION MYTH, MAGIC, AND THE POWER OF THE WORD
Narrating Power: The Theory and Practice of the Magical Historiola in Ritual Spells	457
David Frankfurter
Plates New Greek Magical and Divinatory Texts in Berlin