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- catalog abstract ""This volume demonstrates that the word "magic" was widely employed in late antique texts as part of polemical attacks on enemies - but at the simplest level it was merely a term used for other people's rituals." "Janowitz's work illuminates the fact that acvities denounced as magical were integral to late antique religious practice, and shows that they must be understood from the perspective of those who employed them."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12222907.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""This volume demonstrates that the word "magic" was widely employed in late antique texts as part of polemical attacks on enemies - but at the simplest level it was merely a term used for other people's rituals." "Janowitz's work illuminates the fact that acvities denounced as magical were integral to late antique religious practice, and shows that they must be understood from the perspective of those who employed them."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. Greco-Roman, Christian and Jewish concepts of "magic" Pliny's critique of the magi. The church fathers' views of magic. Rabbinic classifications of magic -- 2. Daimons and angels and the world of exorcism. The rise of angelology and daimonology. Daimons, possession and exorcism -- 3. Ancient rites for gaining lovers -- 4. Using natural forces for divine goals: Maria the Jewess and early alchemy -- 5. Divine power, human hands: becoming gods in the first centuries. The emergence of deification techniques. Deification techniques in early Christian texts. Ascent techniques routinized -- 6. "Even the decent women practice witchcraft": magic and gender in late antiquity.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-128) and indexes.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 145 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "041520206X".
- catalog identifier "0415202078 (pbk.)".
- catalog isPartOf "Religion in the first Christian centuries".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London ; New York : Routledge,".
- catalog spatial "Rome.".
- catalog subject "133.4/3/09015 21".
- catalog subject "BF1591 .J36 2001".
- catalog subject "BF1591 .J36 2001X".
- catalog subject "Magic, Ancient.".
- catalog subject "Rites and ceremonies History.".
- catalog subject "Rites and ceremonies Rome.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Greco-Roman, Christian and Jewish concepts of "magic" Pliny's critique of the magi. The church fathers' views of magic. Rabbinic classifications of magic -- 2. Daimons and angels and the world of exorcism. The rise of angelology and daimonology. Daimons, possession and exorcism -- 3. Ancient rites for gaining lovers -- 4. Using natural forces for divine goals: Maria the Jewess and early alchemy -- 5. Divine power, human hands: becoming gods in the first centuries. The emergence of deification techniques. Deification techniques in early Christian texts. Ascent techniques routinized -- 6. "Even the decent women practice witchcraft": magic and gender in late antiquity.".
- catalog title "Magic in the Roman world : pagans, Jews and Christians / Naomi Janowitz.".
- catalog type "text".