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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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Wiśniewski, Robert, 1968- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Polaco
Publié: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
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.