Spiritual Taxonomies and Ritual Authority : : Platonists, Priests, and Gnostics in the Third Century C.E. / / Heidi Marx-Wolf.
The people of the late ancient Mediterranean world thought about and encountered gods, angels, demons, heroes, and other spirits on a regular basis. These figures were diverse, ambiguous, and unclassified and were not ascribed any clear or stable moral valence. Whether or not they were helpful or ha...
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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015] ©2016 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. How to Feed a Daemon: Third-Century Philosophers on Blood Sacrifice
- Chapter 2. Everything in Its Right Place: Spiritual Taxonomy in Third-Century Platonism
- Chapter 3. The Missing Link: Third-Century Platonists and "Gnostics" on Daemons and Other Spirits
- Chapter 4. High Priests of the Highest God: Third-Century Platonists as Ritual Experts
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments