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Magic in the Roman World: Pagans, Jews and Christians

Magic in the Roman World: Pagans, Jews and Christians

Janowitz, Naomi

Paperback

Series: Religion in the First Christian Centuries

OccultReligion General Ancient Rome

ISBN10: 0415202078
ISBN13: 9780415202077
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 21 2001
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.44
Language: English
Using in-depth examples of 'magical' practice such as exorcisms, love rites, alchemy and the transformation of humans into divine beings, this lively volume demonstrates that the word 'magic' was used widely in late antique texts as part of polemics against enemies and sometimes merely as a term for other people's rituals. Naomi Janowitz shows that 'magical' activities were integral to late antique religious practice, and that they must be understood from the perspective of those who employed them.

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