Forbidden oracles?
Subtitle: The Gospel of the Lots of Mary
By: AnneMarie Luijendijk
Series: Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum -- 89 = -- Studies and texts in antiquity and Christianity -- 89; Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum -- 89.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9783161528590; 9783161528606
Subjects: Orakel; 18.78 Afro-Asiatic languages: other; Religiösa aspekter; Spådomskonst; Coptic manuscripts; Christianity; Mariologi; Ockultism; Language area: coptic; Occultism; Språkområde: koptiska; Gospel of the Lots of Mary; Sibyllor; Böcker; Oracles; Literary studies; Sybils; Litteraturvetenskap; Books; Divination; Mariology
Other titles: Gospel of the Lots of Mary.; Gospel of the Lots of Mary. l English.
Description: "This book centers on The Gospel of the Lots of Mary, a previously unknown text preserved in a fifth- or sixth-century Coptic miniature codex. It presents the first critical edition and translation of this new text. My book is also a project about religious praxis and authority, as I situate the manuscript within the context of practices of and debates around divination in the ancient Mediterranean world."--Preface, p. [vii].
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-186) and indexes.

Contains Coptic text of Gospel of the Lots of Mary with English translation.
Table of contents: title: The Gospel of the Lots of Mary; title: Encountering a miniature divination codex; title: A three-way conversation: book, diviner, and client; title: A new voice in the discourse on divination.