Cultural Plurality in Ancient Magical Texts and Practices

doi:10.1628/978-3-16-156479-6

Cultural Plurality in Ancient Magical Texts and Practices

Graeco-Egyptian Handbooks and Related Traditions

Edited by William Furley, Joachim Friedrich Quack, Svenja Nagel and Ljuba Merlina Bortolani

2019. 383 pages.

Orientalische Religionen in der Antike (ORA) 32

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This conference volume explores various aspects of magic in antiquity, focusing especially on Graeco-Egyptian magical papyri and questions of cultural plurality and fusion, from earlier Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Greek traditions, through Graeco-Roman Egypt, up to and including Jewish and Byzantine magical lore.

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William Furley Born 1953; 1979 PhD; since 2003 Associate Professor of Classics, University of Heidelberg; Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of Classical Studies (School of Advanced Studies), London.

Joachim Friedrich Quack Born 1966; studied Egyptology, Semitic Studies, Biblical Archaeology, Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Pre- and Early History in Tübingen and Paris; 1990 Magister; 1993 Dr. phil.; 2003 Habilitation at the FU Berlin; Professor of Egyptology at the University of Heidelberg.

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Svenja Nagel Born 1984; studied Egyptology and Classical Archaeology; 2015 PhD; since 2017 post-doc researcher at the Institute of Egyptology at the University of Heidelberg.

Ljuba Merlina Bortolani Born 1980; studied Classics and Egyptology; 2012 PhD; since 2017 post-doc researcher at the department of Classical Philology at the University of Heidelberg.