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Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power Marvin W. Meyer, Richard Smith
Publisher: Princeton University Press

Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994. Oct 23, 2010 - The book is Ancient Christian Magic, Coptic Texts of Ritual Power by Marvin Meyer (Professor, Claremont College) and Richard Smith (Princeton University Press, 1999). The Coptic Magical Texts Project joined in supporting two international conferences at which Coptic ritual power was part of the agenda: “Magic in the Ancient World,” August 1992, Lawrence, Kansas; and “Second International Conference on Magic in the Ancient World,” August 1998, Claremont and Orange, California. Mar 6, 2014 - Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power By Marvin Meyer, Richard Smith 1994 | 423 Pages | ISBN: 0060655844 , 006065578X | scanned PDF | 125 MB Empower yourself; learn how. Mar 2, 2014 - Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Meyer and Smith present a published corpus of Christian magical texts. Dec 13, 2012 - This thought-provoking collection of magical texts from ancient Egypt shows the exotic rituals, esoteric healing practices, and incantatory and supernatural dimensions that flowered in early Christianity. Jul 7, 2009 - This learned and thoughtful book, building on the spate of publications of Jewish magical texts over the past thirty years (as well as the refinement of the study of magic in the ancient Mediterranean world), aims first of all to replace Ludwig Blau's 1914 Das Altjüdische Zauberwesen as the essential resource on ancient Jewish magic. Oct 12, 2012 - Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic texts of ritual power. Jun 15, 2013 - Related Posts: African Religious Traditions Christianity Copts egypt Kemet North Africa Primary Sources ritual. Ancient World (Brill, 2002), Jesus Then and Now: Images of Jesus in History and Christology (Trinity Press International, 2001), From Quest to Q (Peeters, 2000), and Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power (Princeton, 1999). Aug 17, 2012 - He is Director of the Coptic Magical Texts Project of the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, Claremont Graduate University, Fellow of the Jesus Seminar, and a past President of the Society of Biblical Literature (Pacific Coast). Marvin Meyer and Richard Smith, Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power (San Francisco: Harper, 1994). Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power By Marvin Meyer, Richard Smith 1994 | 423 Pages | ISBN: 0060655844 , 006065578X | scanned PDF | 125 MB. Nov 15, 2006 - Traditionalists may find heretical the use of "Christian" as a modifier for "magic." But it's an apt combination for this gathering of previously untranslated curses, recipes and spells ritualistically cast by Egyptian Christians. Mar 2, 2014 - Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power By Marvin Meyer, Richard Smith 1994 | 423 Pages | ISBN: 0060655844 , 006065578X | scanned PDF | 125 MB. Feb 1, 2001 - Institute for Antiquity and Christianity Claremont Graduate University Project Director: of Coptic magical materials. Mar 15, 2014 - Marvin Meyer and Richard Smith, eds., Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power (San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1994).