Through a glass darkly : magic, dreams & prophecy in ancient Egypt
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Through a glass darkly : magic, dreams & prophecy in ancient Egypt
Classical Press of Wales, 2006
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Magic, dreams, and prophecy played important roles in ancient Egypt, as recent scholarship has increasingly made clear. In this volume, eminent international Egyptologists come together to explore such divination across a wide period.
Table of Contents
The Social Context of Magic in the 3rd Millennium & Middle Kingdom (John Baines) The End is Near (Leonard Lesko) Corn Mummies: "Amulets of Life" (Maria Costanza Centrone) The Spitting Goddess and the Stoney Eye: Divinity and Flint in Pharaonic Egypt (Carolyn Graves-Brown) Magic, Dreams and Prophecy in Egyptian Narrative Literature (Alan B Lloyd) Nocturnal Ciphers in the Ancient Near East: Egyptian Dream Exegesis from a Comparative Perspective (Scott Noegel) In Search of the Sorcerer's Apprentice (Daniel Ogden) Sinuhe's Dream (Richard B Parkinson) A black cat from right, and a scarab on your head: New sources for Ancient Egyptian Divination (Joachim Quack) The Dreams of the Twins of St. Petersburg (John Ray) 'and each staff transformed into a snake' The Serpent Wand in Egyptian Magic (Robert K Ritner) A Lost Dream Episode (Anthony J Spalinger) Introduction: Tomorrow is Yesterday (Kasia Szpakowska) Entangled or Connected: The power of knots and knotting in Ancient Egypt (Willemina Wendrich)
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