Ancient Christians and the Power of Curses Magic, Aesthetics, and Justice

"Ancient Christians lived in a world of "magic." They and others-particularly those of low status-used curses as ritual objects to seek justice from gods and other beings. These curses, and invective against them, reveal the complexity of ancient Mediterranean religions and their aesthetics: their use of materiality, poetics, song, and incantation"--

A propos de l'auteur

Laura Salah Nasrallah, the Buckingham Professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale University, is author of An Ecstasy of Folly: Prophecy and Authority in Early Christianity (2003); Christian Responses to Roman Art and Architecture: The Second-Century Church Amid the Spaces of Empire (2010), and Archaeology and the Letters of Paul (2019).

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Laura Salah Nasrallah, Nasrallah Laura Salah, Laura Salah (Yale University Nasrallah
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Contenu: Livre
• Forme du produit: Livre Relié
• Date de parution: 01.11.2023
• Catégorie: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Religion, théologie > Christianisme; Littérature spécialisée > Philosophie, religion > Religion: général, ouvrages de référence
• EAN: 9781009405737
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0940573-7
• Nombre de pages: 358
• Catégories: RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christianity / General, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Magick Studies, Christianity, History of Religion, Magic, spells and alchemy, Magic, spells & alchemy, Mediterranean countries, c 1000 BCE to start of CE period, Relating to Christian people and groups, BCE to c 500 CE, For higher / tertiary / university education