Magic and divination in the ancient world
By: edited by Leda Ciraolo and Jonathan Seidel.
Contributors: Ciraolo, Leda Jean.; Seidel, Jonathan Lee.
Series: Ancient magic and divination,
Publisher: Brill/Styx
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
Subjects: Magic, Ancient -- Congresses.; Divination -- History -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Other titles: Magic and divination
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.
Table of contents: title: Soul emplacements in ancient Mesopotamian funerary rituals / Joann Scurlock; title: A severed head laughed: stories of divinatory interpretation / Ann Kessler Guinan; title: Inquiring for the state in the ancient Near East: delineating political location / Joel Sweek; title: Hittite oracles / Richard Beal; title: Oracle by image: Coffin Text 103 in context / John Gee; title: Necromancy in ancient Egypt / Robert K. Ritner; title: Necromantic praxis in the Midrash on the seance at En Dor / Jonathan Seidel; title: Under Homer's spell / Gregg Schwender; title: The poet as conjurer: magic and literary theory in late antiquity / Peter T. Struck; title: Persons of power and their communities / Anitra Bingham Kolenkow