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By AnneMarie Luijendijk

ISBN-10: 316152859X

ISBN-13: 9783161528590

during this quantity, AnneMarie Luijendijk analyzes a formerly unknown textual content preserved in a 5th- or sixth-century Coptic miniature codex, entitled The Gospel of the plenty of Mary , and locations it in the context of practices of and debates approximately divination within the historic Mediterranean global. this can be the 1st serious version and translation of this new textual content; it's also a venture approximately spiritual authority and practices.
within the first a part of the ebook, the writer investigates the codex, considering either its weaving jointly of biblical allusions and conventional divinatory words, its fabric structure as miniature codex with imprints of its use, and mode of operation. the second one half involves the variation of this article, an English translation, and an complicated textual commentary.
AnneMarie Luijendijk participates in conversations approximately lived faith and privileged wisdom of the divine or the long run. Sortilege-the perform of casting plenty to acquire an answer-was frequent in antiquity; it was once a style utilized in decision-making on all degrees of historic society. As a non secular perform, lot divination used to be additionally hugely contested, as entry to those practices and therefore to the divine intended regulate of powers, religiously and socially. The textual content, replete with biblical words yet essentially materialistic in worldview, disrupts our innovations of what's non secular within the historical global. Luijendijk therefore contributes to discussions within the learn of faith that question the types of faith and magic. She additionally contributes to scholarship at the construction and use of books, specially miniature codices.

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