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Christian divination in late antiquity /
In Late Antiquity, people commonly sought to acquire knowledge about the past, the present, and the future, using a variety of methods. While early Christians did not doubt that these methods worked effectively, in theory they were not allowed to make use of them. In practice, people responded to th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Polaco |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Social worlds of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction
- 1. Attitudes to Divination
- 2. Prophets
- 3. Take and Read
- 4. Books and Bones
- 5. Divinatory Lots
- 6. Interrogating Demoniacs
- 7. Incubation
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index