Making amulets Christian. Artefacts, scribes, and contexts 1st Edition Theodore De Bruyn 0191075906 9780191075902

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• ISBN 10: 0191075906
• ISBN 13: 9780191075902
• Author: Theodore De Bruyn

Making Amulets Christian: Artefacts, Scribes, and Contexts examines Greek amulets with Christian elements from late antique Egypt in order to discern the processes whereby a customary practice—the writing of incantations on amulets—changed in an increasingly Christian context. It considers how the formulation of incantations and amulets changed as the Christian church became the prevailing religious institution in Egypt in the last centuries of the Roman empire. Theodore de Bruyn investigates what we can learn from incantations and amulets containing Christian elements about the cultural and social location of the people who wrote them. He shows how incantations and amulets were indebted to rituals or ritualizing behaviour of Christians. This study analyzes different types of amulets and the ways in which they incorporate Christian elements.

Table of contents:

1. Normative Christian Discourse

2. Materials, Format, and Writing

3. Manuals of Procedures and Incantations

4. Scribal Features of Customary Amulets

5. Scribal Features of Scriptural Amulets

6. Christian Ritual Contexts

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