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Brill/Styx
Language
English
Pages
152

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Table of Contents

Soul emplacements in ancient Mesopotamian funerary rituals / Joann Scurlock
A severed head laughed: stories of divinatory interpretation / Ann Kessler Guinan
Inquiring for the state in the ancient Near East: delineating political location / Joel Sweek
Hittite oracles / Richard Beal
Oracle by image: Coffin Text 103 in context / John Gee
Necromancy in ancient Egypt / Robert K. Ritner
Necromantic praxis in the Midrash on the seance at En Dor / Jonathan Seidel
Under Homer's spell / Gregg Schwender
The poet as conjurer: magic and literary theory in late antiquity / Peter T. Struck
Persons of power and their communities / Anitra Bingham Kolenkow

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Proceedings of the conference on Magic and Divination in the Ancient World held at the University of California at Berkeley in February 1994"--P. vii.

Published in
Leiden, Boston
Series
Ancient magic and divination,
Genre
Congresses.
Other Titles
Magic and divination

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
133.4/3/093
Library of Congress
BF1591 .M3435 2002, BF1591.M3435 2002

Contributors

Editor
Leda Ciraolo
Editor
Jonathan Seidel
Contributor
Joann Scurlock
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Ann Kessler Guinan
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Joel Sweek
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Richard Beal
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John Gee
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Robert K. Ritner
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Jonathan Seidel
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Gregg Schwender
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Peter T. Struck
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Anitra Bingham Kolenkow

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 152 p. :
Number of pages
152

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3706337M
ISBN 10
9004124063
LCCN
2003276439
OCLC/WorldCat
50384692
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Library Thing
430095

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