Christian Divination in Late Antiquity /
In Late Antiquity, people commonly sought to acquire hidden knowledge about the past, the present, and the future, using a variety of methods. While Christians acknowledged that these methods could work effectively, in theory they were not allowed to make use of them. In practice, they behaved in di...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés Polaco |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2020
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Series: | Social worlds of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Attitudes to divination
- Prophets
- Take and read
- Books and bones
- Divinatory lots
- Interrogating demoniacs
- Incubation.