Envisioning Magic : : A Princeton Seminar and Symposium / / Peter Schäfer and Hans Kippenberg.

• Superior document: Numen Book Series ; Volume 75
• VerfasserIn: Schäfer, Peter, 1943-; Kippenberg, Hans G.
• TeilnehmendeR: Kippenberg, Hans G.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Bntl NV,, [1997]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 1997
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Numen numerus ; Volume 75.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

This collection of twelve articles presents a selection of papers delivered in the course of a seminar 1994-95 and its concluding international symposium at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. The common theme is the interrelation between magic and religion, focussing particularly on the...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material / Peter Schäfer and Hans G. Kippenberg
• Magic and Theology in Ancient Egypt / Assmann Jan
• Magic and Religion in Ancient Judaism / Peter Schäfer
• Jewish Magic in the Greek Magical Papyri (PGM VII.260-71) / Hans Dieter Betz
• Reporting the Marvellous: Private Divination in the Greek Magical Papyri / Richard Gordon
• How to Cope with a Diff1cult Life. A View of Ancient Magic / Fritz Graf
• Ritual Expertise in Roman Egypt and the Problem of the Category ‘Magician’ / David Frankfurter
• Magic in Roman Civil Discourse: Why Rituals Could be Illegal / Hans G. Kippenberg
• Rising to the Occasion: Theurgic Ascent in its Cultural Milieu / Sarah Iles Johnston
• On Judaism, Jewish Mysticism and Magic / Moshe Idel
• Miracle, Magic, and Disenchantment in Early Modern Germany / Philip M. Soergel
• Between Rellgion and Magic: An Analysis of Witchcraft Trials in the Spanish Netherlands, Seventeenth Century / Gurno Marnef
• Language, Signs and Magic / Thomas M. Greene
• Index of Sources / Peter Schäfer and Hans G. Kippenberg
• Index of Names and Subjects / Peter Schäfer and Hans G. Kippenberg
• Studies in the History of Religions Numen Book Series / Peter Schäfer and Hans G. Kippenberg.