Laura Salah Nasrallah (Connecticut Yale University)

Gebundenes Buch

Ancient Christians and the Power of Curses

Magic, Aesthetics, and Justice

Beschreibung

Ancient Christians lived in a world of 'magic.' They and others-particularly those of low status-used curses as ritual objects to seek justice from gods and other beings. These curses, and invective against them, reveal the complexity of ancient Mediterranean religions and their aesthetics: their use of materiality, poetics, song, and incantation.

Autor

Laura Salah Nasrallah, the Buckingham Professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale University, is author of An Ecstasy of Folly: Prophecy and Authority in Early Christianity (2003); Christian Responses to Roman Art and Architecture: The Second-Century Church Amid the Spaces of Empire (2010), and Archaeology and the Letters of Paul (2019).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 158mm x 236mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 632g
• ISBN-13: 9781009405737
• ISBN-10: 100940573X
• Artikelnr.: 68466204