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Daughters of Hecate : women and magic in the ancient world / edited by Kimberly B. Stratton with Dayna S. Kalleres.

Contributor(s): Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2014Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780199711550
  • 0199711550
  • 9780199387748
  • 0199387745
Other title:
  • Women and magic in the ancient world
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Daughters of HecateDDC classification:
  • 133.4/3093 23
LOC classification:
  • BF1621 .D37 2014eb
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Contents:
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Interrogating the Magic�Gender Connection""; ""Kimberly B. Stratton""; ""Part I Fiction and Fantasy: Gendering Magic in Ancient Literature""; ""2 From Goddess to Hag: The Greek and the Roman Witch in Classical Literature""; ""Barbette Stanley Spaeth""; ""3 “The Most Worthy of Women is a Mistress of Magic� : Women as Witches and Ritual Practitioners in 1 Enoch and Rabbinic Sources""; ""Rebecca Lesses""; ""4 Gendering Heavenly Secrets?""; ""Annette Yoshiko Reed""; ""5 Magic, Abjection, and Gender in Roman Literature""; ""Kimberly B. Stratton""
""Part II Gender and Magic Discourse in Practice""""6 Magic Accusations against Women in Tacitus�s Annals""; ""Elizabeth Ann Pollard""; ""Drunken Hags with Amuletsand Prostitutes with Erotic Spells :The Re-Feminization of Magic in LateAntique Christian Homilies""; ""Dayna S. Kalleres""; ""7 Drunken Hags with Amuletsand Prostitutes with Erotic Spells :The Re-Feminization of Magic in LateAntique Christian Homilies""; ""Dayna S. Kalleres""; ""8 The Bishop, the Pope, and the Prophetess: Rival Ritual Experts in Third-Century Cappadocia""; ""Ayse Tuzlak""
""9 Living Images of the Divine: Female Theurgists in Late Antiquity""""Nicola Denzey Lewis""; ""10 Sorceresses and Sorcerers in Early Christian Tours of Hell""; ""Kirsti Barrett Copeland""; ""Part III Gender, Magic, and the Material Record""; ""11 The Social Context of Women�s Erotic Magic in Antiquity""; ""David Frankfurter""; ""12 Cheating Women: Curse Tablets and Roman Wives""; ""Pauline Ripat""; ""13 Saffron, Spices, and Sorceresses: Magic Bowls and the Bavli""; ""Yaakov Elman""; ""14 Victimology or: How to Deal with Untimely Death""; ""Fritz Graf""
""15 A Gospel Amulet for Joannia (P. Oxy. VIII 1151)""""AnneMarie Luijendijk""; ""Bibliography""; ""Citation Index""; ""Subject Index""
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This volume unites for the first time research on the problem of gender and magic in three ancient Mediterranean societies: early Judaism, Christianity, and Greco-Roman culture. The book's unique strength derives from bringing together diverse critical methodologies of scholars working in related ancient fields and is divided into three sections that reflect distinct perspectives: 1. Fiction and fantasy: gendering magic in ancient literature, 2. Gender and magic discourse in practice, and 3. Gender, magic, and the material record.
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This volume unites for the first time research on the problem of gender and magic in three ancient Mediterranean societies: early Judaism, Christianity, and Greco-Roman culture. The book's unique strength derives from bringing together diverse critical methodologies of scholars working in related ancient fields and is divided into three sections that reflect distinct perspectives: 1. Fiction and fantasy: gendering magic in ancient literature, 2. Gender and magic discourse in practice, and 3. Gender, magic, and the material record.

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Interrogating the Magic�Gender Connection""; ""Kimberly B. Stratton""; ""Part I Fiction and Fantasy: Gendering Magic in Ancient Literature""; ""2 From Goddess to Hag: The Greek and the Roman Witch in Classical Literature""; ""Barbette Stanley Spaeth""; ""3 “The Most Worthy of Women is a Mistress of Magic� : Women as Witches and Ritual Practitioners in 1 Enoch and Rabbinic Sources""; ""Rebecca Lesses""; ""4 Gendering Heavenly Secrets?""; ""Annette Yoshiko Reed""; ""5 Magic, Abjection, and Gender in Roman Literature""; ""Kimberly B. Stratton""

""Part II Gender and Magic Discourse in Practice""""6 Magic Accusations against Women in Tacitus�s Annals""; ""Elizabeth Ann Pollard""; ""Drunken Hags with Amuletsand Prostitutes with Erotic Spells :The Re-Feminization of Magic in LateAntique Christian Homilies""; ""Dayna S. Kalleres""; ""7 Drunken Hags with Amuletsand Prostitutes with Erotic Spells :The Re-Feminization of Magic in LateAntique Christian Homilies""; ""Dayna S. Kalleres""; ""8 The Bishop, the Pope, and the Prophetess: Rival Ritual Experts in Third-Century Cappadocia""; ""Ayse Tuzlak""

""9 Living Images of the Divine: Female Theurgists in Late Antiquity""""Nicola Denzey Lewis""; ""10 Sorceresses and Sorcerers in Early Christian Tours of Hell""; ""Kirsti Barrett Copeland""; ""Part III Gender, Magic, and the Material Record""; ""11 The Social Context of Women�s Erotic Magic in Antiquity""; ""David Frankfurter""; ""12 Cheating Women: Curse Tablets and Roman Wives""; ""Pauline Ripat""; ""13 Saffron, Spices, and Sorceresses: Magic Bowls and the Bavli""; ""Yaakov Elman""; ""14 Victimology or: How to Deal with Untimely Death""; ""Fritz Graf""

""15 A Gospel Amulet for Joannia (P. Oxy. VIII 1151)""""AnneMarie Luijendijk""; ""Bibliography""; ""Citation Index""; ""Subject Index""

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