Magic and the Supernatural in Fourth Century Syria
Author:   Silke Trzcionka (Australian Catholic University, Queensland, Australia)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Edition:   New edition
ISBN:  

9780415392426


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   27 October 2006
Format:   Paperback
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Magic and the Supernatural in Fourth Century Syria


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Author:   Silke Trzcionka (Australian Catholic University, Queensland, Australia)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.440kg
ISBN:  

9780415392426


ISBN 10:   041539242
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   27 October 2006
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

Table of Contents

Introduction Methodology Syria and Palestine Curses for Courses: Heavy Tactics in the Hippodrome Supernatural Sabotage: Ensuring a Successful Livelihood Demanding Desire: Rituals of Love and Lust Apotropaism: Protecting Good fortune Illness and Healing: Threats and Retaliation in a Discourse of Power Possession and Expulsion: Experiencing and Dispelling the Daimonic Ambiguous and Miscellaneous Conclusions: Ambitions, Desire, Fears and Insecurities

Reviews

<p>'Without doubt [Silke Trzcionka's] meticulous work is very welcome and a significant contribution to the field of research on (late) antique magic... Very impressive is her skillful narrative account and her fluent style of writing. With her fine and concise observations at hand the readers, no matter if they are specialists in the field, beginning students of (late) antiquity, or just readers interested in the subject matters, are enabled to develop some further insights in some very specific topics that could only be touched in the book. [Trzcionka] must be thanked for having written that fascinating book.' - Bryn Mawr Classical Review<p>'[a] successful attempt to ignore modern distinctions between magic and religion' - International Review of Biblical Studies


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Australian Catholic University, Queensland, Australia

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