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Cultural Plurality In Ancient Magical Texts And Practices: Graeco-egyptian Handbooks And Related Traditions (orientalische Religionen In Der Antike by Ljuba Merlina Bortolani (editor), William D. Furley (editor), Svenja Nagel (editor), Joachim Friedrich Quack (editor) is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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A conference held in Heidelberg in 2014 resulted in this collection of essays, which explore the multifaceted aspects of magical texts and practices in antiquity, focusing especially on the Graeco-Egyptian magical papyri. The volume concentrates on questions of cultural plurality and fusion, ranging from earlier Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Greek magico-religious traditions, through the original developments of Graeco-Roman Egypt, up to and including their integration into Jewish and Byzantine mag
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- Author
- Ljuba Merlina Bortolani (editor), William D. Furley (editor), Svenja Nagel (editor), Joachim Friedrich Quack (editor)
- Publisher
- Mohr Siebeck GmbH & Company KG
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9783161564796
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Religion, Judaism, Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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