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Record Nr.

UNINA9910806830903321

Autore

Dieleman Jacco

Titolo

Priests, tongues, and rites : the London-Leiden magical manuscripts and translation in Egyptian ritual (100-300 CE) / / by Jacco Dieleman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiten ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2005

ISBN

1-280-86741-8

9786610867417

90-474-0674-5

1-4337-0749-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (372 p.)

Collana

Religions in the Graeco-Roman world, , 0927-7633 ; ; v. 153

Disciplina

133.4/3/0932

Soggetti

Magic - Egypt

Rites and ceremonies - Egypt

Bilingualism - Egypt - History - To 1500

Egyptian language

Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri) - Egypt

Egypt Civilization 332 B.C.-638 A.D

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--Leiden University, 2003).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-328) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary material -- INTRODUCTION -- PRESENTATION OF THE SOURCES P. LEIDEN I 384 AND P. LONDON-LEIDEN -- THE USE OF SCRIPT -- THE FORM AND FUNCTION OF BILINGUALISM -- DIVERSITY IN RHETORIC -- OF PRIESTS AND PRESTIGE THE NEED FOR AN AUTHORITATIVE TRADITION -- TOWARDS A MODEL OF TEXTUAL TRANSMISSION -- APPENDICES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX OF PASSAGES -- INDEX OF SUBJECTS -- RELIGIONS IN THE GRAECO-ROMAN WORLD.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is an investigation into the sphere of production and use of two related bilingual magical handbooks found as part of a larger collection of magical and alchemical manuscripts around 1828 in the hills surrounding Luxor, Egypt. Both handbooks, dating to the Roman period, contain an assortment of recipes for magical rites in the Demotic and Greek language. The library which comprises these two



handbooks is nowadays better known as the Theban Magical Library. The book traces the social and cultural milieu of the composers, compilers and users of the extant spells through a combination of philology, sociolinguistics and cultural analysis. To anybody working on Greco-Roman Egypt, ancient magic, and bilingualism this study is of significant importance.