A kind of magic : understanding magic in the New Testament and its religious environment / edited by Michael Labahn and Bert Jan Lietaert Peerbolte.
This collection of articles by distinguished scholars and experts in their particular fields of research is introduced by a chapter dealing with general matters of the current hermeneutics of magic: what is the nature of magic and what is the understanding of magic in the Western world-view and what...
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Library of New Testament studies ; 306. Library of New Testament studies. European studies on Christian origins. |
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Table of Contents:
- From [mageia] to magic : envisaging a problematic concept in the study of religion / Daria Pezzoli Olgiatti
- Magic in the ancient world and African culture / Emmanuel O. Nwaoru
- Jesus and magic : theodicean perspectives to the issue / Tom Holmén
- Jesus the exorcist and ancient magic / Graham H. Twelftree
- [Magoi] : astrologers, ecstatics, deceitful prophets : New Testament understanding in Jewish and pagan context / Michael Becker
- Magic in the Book of Acts / Stanley E. Porter
- Magic from before the dawn of time : understanding magic in the Old Testament : a shift in paradigm (Deuteronomy 18:9-14 and beyond) / Ann Jeffers
- Catalogue of spirits, liturgical manuscript with angelological content, incantation? : reflections on the character of a fragment from Qumran (4Q230 1), with appendix, edition of the fragments of IAA #114 / Eibert Tigchelaar
- The daughters of Medea : enchanting women in the Graeco-Hellenistic world / Christiane Kunst
- Fascinating but forbidden? : magic in Rome / Ulrike Riemer
- The great magical papyrus of Paris (PGM IV) and the Bible / Pieter W. van der Horst
- The Eighth Book of Moses (PLeid. J 395) : Hellenistic Jewish influence in a pagan magical papyrus / Bert Jan Lietaert Peerbolte.
- From μαγέια to magic : envisaging a problematic concept in the study of religion / Daria Pezzoli Olgiatti
- Magic in the ancient world and African culture / Emmanuel O. Nwaoru
- Jesus and magic : theodicean perspectives to the issue / Tom Holmén
- Jesus the exorcist and ancient magic / Graham H. Twelftree
- Μ́αγοι : astrologers, ecstatics, deceitful prophets : New Testament understanding in Jewish and pagan context / Michael Becker
- Magic in the Book of Acts / Stanley E. Porter
- Magic from before the dawn of time : understanding magic in the Old Testament : a shift in paradigm (Deuteronomy 18:9-14 and beyond) / Ann Jeffers
- Catalogue of spirits, liturgical manuscript with angelological content, incantation? : reflections on the character of a fragment from Qumran (4Q230 1), with appendix, edition of the fragments of IAA #114 / Eibert Tigchelaar
- The daughters of Medea : enchanting women in the Graeco-Hellenistic world / Christiane Kunst
- Fascinating but forbidden? : magic in Rome / Ulrike Riemer
- The great magical papyrus of Paris (PGM IV) and the Bible / Pieter W. van der Horst
- The Eighth Book of Moses (PLeid. J 395) : Hellenistic Jewish influence in a pagan magical papyrus / Bert Jan Lietaert Peerbolte.