EAN: 9783525522189

MAGIC IN THE ANCIENT EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN GEBU...

Historically  magic has been considered to be questionable  obscure  and potentially
subversive. This volume refrains from using it as an othering device and argues that it can
serve as a helpful analytical tool and a category for understanding particular beliefs and
practices within religious life. The articles discuss the concept in biblical and related texts
as well as in scholarship and offer examples of magic in literary and material culture. The
theoretical perspectives of cultural evolution and cognitive and ritual studies are applied
with a focus on the representations of magic(ians) in ancient sources and on the role of magic
in blessings  curses  and the world of protective and destructive celestial beings.Magic is
fundamental to all forms of religion

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