| A Coptic Handbook of Ritual Power Contributor(s): Choat, Malcolm (Editor), Gardner, Ian (Editor) |
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ISBN: 2503531709 ISBN-13: 9782503531700 Publisher: Brepols Publishers OUR PRICE: $99.00 Product Type: Paperback Language: Coptic Published: October 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Ancient - Egypt - Religion | Christianity - History - Language Arts & Disciplines | Publishers & Publishing Industry |
| Dewey: 002 |
| Series: Macquarie Papyri |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 8.2" W x 11.6" (1.36 lbs) 160 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - North Africa - Religious Orientation - Christian - Cultural Region - Middle East |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume publishes a new Coptic handbook of ritual power, comprising a complete 20 page parchment codex from the second half of the first millennium AD. It consists of an invocation including both Christian and Gnostic elements, ritual instructions, and a list of twenty-seven spells to cure demonic possession, various ailments, the effects of magic, or to bring success in love and business. The codex is not only a substantial new addition to the corpus of magical texts from Egypt, but, in its opening invocation, also provides new evidence for Sethian Gnostic thought in Coptic texts. A Coptic Handbook of Ritual Power is the first volume in the series The Macquarie Papyri, which will publish the papyri in the collection of the Museum of Ancient Cultures, Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia). |