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hardback. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, a near fine tightly bound copy in a near fine pictorial dust wrapper, the text is clean and is free of markings, xxv + 348pp.

Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 188. E.J. Brill, Leiden, 2019. First edition. In-8, xvii & 392 pages. Original hardcover, a fine copy. From the library of Egyptologist Charles Cornell Van Siclen III (VSX). Contents: The literature of lot divination / AnneMarie Luijendijk and William E. Klingshirn -- The instruments of lot divination / William E. Klingshirn -- Fateful spasms : palmomancy and late antique lot divination / Salvatore Costanza -- Herme_neiai in manuscripts of John's Gospel : an aid to bibliomancy / Kevin Wilkinson -- Hermeneutics and divination : a unique Syriac Biblical manuscript as an oracle of interpretation / Jeff W. Childers -- Secondhand homer / Michael Meerson -- Sortes biblicae judaicae / Pieter W. van der Horst -- The sortes barberinianae within the tradition of oracular texts / Randall Stewart -- Oxyrhynchus and oracles in late antiquity / Alexander Kocar -- Sortes, scribality, and syncretism: ritual experts and the great tradition in Byzantine Egypt / David Frankfurter -- Sortilege between divine ordeals and "secular" justice : aspects of jurisdiction in (ritual) texts from Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt / Franziska Naether -- Freakonomika : oracle as economic indicator in Roman Egypt / David M. Ratzan -- "I do not wish to be rich" : the 'barbarian' Christian Tatian responds to sortes / Laura Salah Nasrallah -- "Only do not be of two minds" : doubt in Christian lot divination / AnneMarie Luijendijk. Language: English. This book ships from the USA, shipping costs will be updated accordingly (TXR). Relevant subjects: Egypt: Greco-Roman, Religion & Magic.