My lots are in thy hands : sortilege and its practitioners in late antiquity
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My lots are in thy hands : sortilege and its practitioners in late antiquity
（Religions in the Graeco-Roman world, v. 188）
Brill, c2019
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-374) and indexes
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Description
Sortilege-the making of decisions by casting lots-was widely practiced in the Mediterranean world during the period known as late antiquity, between the third and eighth centuries CE. In My Lots are in Thy Hands: Sortilege and its Practitioners in Late Antiquity, AnneMarie Luijendijk and William Klingshirn have collected fourteen essays that examine late antique lot divination, especially but not exclusively through texts preserved in Greek, Latin, Coptic, and Syriac. Employing the overlapping perspectives of religious studies, classics, anthropology, economics, and history, contributors study a variety of topics, including the hermeneutics and operations of divinatory texts, the importance of diviners and their instruments, and the place of faith and doubt in the search for hidden order in a seemingly random world.
Table of Contents
Preface
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
1 The Literature of Lot Divination
AnneMarie Luijendijk and William E. Klingshirn
2 The Instruments of Lot Divination
William E. Klingshirn
3 Fateful Spasms: Palmomancy and Late Antique Lot Divination
Salvatore Costanza
4 Hermeneiai in Manuscripts of John's Gospel: an Aid to Bibliomancy
Kevin Wilkinson
5 Hermeneutics and Magic: a Unique Syriac Biblical Manuscript as an Oracle of Interpretation
Jeff W. Childers
6 Secondhand Homer
Michael Meerson
7 Sortes Biblicae Judaicae
Pieter W. van der Horst
8 The Sortes Barberinianae within the Tradition of Oracular Texts
Randall Stewart
9 Oxyrhynchus and Oracles in Late Antiquity
Alexander Kocar
10 Sortes, Scribality, and Syncretism: Ritual Experts and the Great Tradition in Byzantine Egypt
David Frankfurter
11 Sortilege between Divine Ordeals and "Secular" Justice: Aspects of Jurisdiction in (Ritual) Texts from Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt
Franziska Naether
12 Freakonomika: Oracle as Economic Indicator in Roman Egypt
David M. Ratzan
13 "I Do Not Wish to Be Rich": The 'Barbarian' Christian Tatian Responds to Sortes
Laura Salah Nasrallah
14 "Only Do Not Be of Two Minds": Doubt in Christian Lot Divination
AnneMarie Luijendijk
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