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Spiritual Taxonomies and Ritual Authority : Platonists, Priests, and Gnostics in the Third Century C.E. /
The people of the late ancient Mediterranean world thought about and encountered gods, angels, demons, heroes, and other spirits on a regular basis. These figures were diverse, ambiguous, and unclassified and were not ascribed any clear or stable moral valence. Whether or not they were helpful or ha...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. How to Feed a Daemon: Third-Century Philosophers on Blood Sacrifice
- Chapter 2. Everything in Its Right Place: Spiritual Taxonomy in Third-Century Platonism
- Chapter 3. The Missing Link: Third-Century Platonists and "Gnostics" on Daemons and Other Spirits
- Chapter 4. High Priests of the Highest God: Third-Century Platonists as Ritual Experts
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments