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Ritual Boundaries

Magic and Differentiation in Late Antique Christianity

By: Joseph E. Sanzo

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Magic and Differentiation in Late Antique Christianity

By: Joseph E. Sanzo

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In Ritual Boundaries, Joseph E. Sanzo transforms our understanding of how early Christians experienced religion in lived practice through the study of magical objects, such as amulets and grimoires. Against the prevailing view of late antiquity as a time when only so-called elites were interested in religious and ritual differentiation, the evidence presented here reveals that the desire to distinguish between religious and ritual insiders and outsiders cut across diverse social strata. The magical evidence also offers unique insight into early biblical reception, exposing a textual world in which scriptural reading was multisensory and multitraditional. As they addressed sickness, demonic struggle, and interpersonal conflicts, Mediterranean people thus acted in ways that challenge our conceptual boundaries between Christians and non-Christians; elites and non-elites; and words, materials, and images. Sanzo helps us rethink how early Christians imagined similarity and difference among texts, traditions, groups, and rituals as they went about their daily lives.

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Univ of California Press

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0520399188

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Scriptural Incipits on Amulets from Late Antique Egypt

Text, Typology, and Theory

By: Joseph E. Sanzo

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Scriptural Incipits on Amulets from Late Antique Egypt

Text, Typology, and Theory

By: Joseph E. Sanzo

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral - Los Angeles) under the title: In the beginnings: the apotropaic use of scriptural incipits in late antique Egypt.

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Mohr Siebeck

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3161529650

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9783161529658

Ritual Boundaries

Magic and Differentiation in Late Antique Christianity

By: Joseph E. Sanzo

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Magic and Differentiation in Late Antique Christianity

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