Luijendijk, AnneMarie.
My Lots Are in Thy Hands. - 1 online resource (410 pages) - Religions in the Graeco-Roman World Ser. . - Religions in the Graeco-Roman World Ser. .
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Figures -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Literature of Lot Divination -- Chapter 2 The Instruments of Lot Divination -- Chapter 3 Fateful Spasms: Palmomancy and Late Antique Lot Divination -- Chapter 4 Hermēneiai in Manuscripts of John's Gospel: an Aid to Bibliomancy -- Chapter 5 Hermeneutics and Divination: a Unique Syriac Biblical Manuscript as an Oracle of Interpretation -- Chapter 6 Secondhand Homer -- Chapter 7 Sortes Biblicae Judaicae -- Chapter 8 The Sortes Barberinianae within the Tradition of Oracular Texts -- Chapter 9 Oxyrhynchus and Oracles in Late Antiquity -- Chapter 10 Sortes, Scribality, and Syncretism: Ritual Experts and the Great Tradition in Byzantine Egypt -- Chapter 11 Sortilege between Divine Ordeals and "Secular" Justice: Aspects of Jurisdiction in (Ritual) Texts from Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt -- Chapter 12 Freakonomika: Oracle as Economic Indicator in Roman Egypt -- Chapter 13 "I Do Not Wish to Be Rich": the 'Barbarian' Christian Tatian Responds to Sortes -- Chapter 14 "Only Do Not Be of Two Minds": Doubt in Christian Lot Divination -- Bibliography -- Index of Ancient Sources -- Index of Modern Authors -- Subject Index.
9789004385030
Choice by lot-History-To 1500.
Civilization, Ancient.
Divination in the Bible.
Electronic books.
BF1779.L6 .M956 2019
133.3
My Lots Are in Thy Hands. - 1 online resource (410 pages) - Religions in the Graeco-Roman World Ser. . - Religions in the Graeco-Roman World Ser. .
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Figures -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Literature of Lot Divination -- Chapter 2 The Instruments of Lot Divination -- Chapter 3 Fateful Spasms: Palmomancy and Late Antique Lot Divination -- Chapter 4 Hermēneiai in Manuscripts of John's Gospel: an Aid to Bibliomancy -- Chapter 5 Hermeneutics and Divination: a Unique Syriac Biblical Manuscript as an Oracle of Interpretation -- Chapter 6 Secondhand Homer -- Chapter 7 Sortes Biblicae Judaicae -- Chapter 8 The Sortes Barberinianae within the Tradition of Oracular Texts -- Chapter 9 Oxyrhynchus and Oracles in Late Antiquity -- Chapter 10 Sortes, Scribality, and Syncretism: Ritual Experts and the Great Tradition in Byzantine Egypt -- Chapter 11 Sortilege between Divine Ordeals and "Secular" Justice: Aspects of Jurisdiction in (Ritual) Texts from Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt -- Chapter 12 Freakonomika: Oracle as Economic Indicator in Roman Egypt -- Chapter 13 "I Do Not Wish to Be Rich": the 'Barbarian' Christian Tatian Responds to Sortes -- Chapter 14 "Only Do Not Be of Two Minds": Doubt in Christian Lot Divination -- Bibliography -- Index of Ancient Sources -- Index of Modern Authors -- Subject Index.
9789004385030
Choice by lot-History-To 1500.
Civilization, Ancient.
Divination in the Bible.
Electronic books.
BF1779.L6 .M956 2019
133.3