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...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés Polaco |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2020
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Collection: | Social worlds of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Attitudes to divination
- Prophets
- Take and read
- Books and bones
- Divinatory lots
- Interrogating demoniacs
- Incubation.