Priests, Tongues, and Rites: The London-Leiden Magical Manuscripts and Translation in Egyptian Ritual (100-300 CE)BRILL, 1 mai 2005 - 372 pages This book is an investigation into the sphere of production and use of two related bilingual magical handbooks found as part of a larger collection of magical and alchemical manuscripts around 1828 in the hills surrounding Luxor, Egypt. Both handbooks, dating to the Roman period, contain an assortment of recipes for magical rites in the Demotic and Greek language. The library which comprises these two handbooks is nowadays better known as the Theban Magical Library. The book traces the social and cultural milieu of the composers, compilers and users of the extant spells through a combination of philology, sociolinguistics and cultural analysis. To anybody working on Greco-Roman Egypt, ancient magic, and bilingualism this study is of significant importance. |
Table des matières
Chapter One Introduction | 1 |
Chapter Two Presentation of the Sources P Leiden I 384 and P LondonLeiden | 25 |
Chapter Three The Use of Script | 47 |
Chapter Four The Form and Function of Bilingualism | 103 |
Chapter Five Diversity in Rhetoric | 145 |
Chapter Six Of Priests and Prestige The Need for an Authoritative Tradition | 185 |
Chapter Seven Towards a Model of Textual Transmission | 285 |
Appendices | 295 |
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Papyrus Leiden | 347 |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
Abrasax Ägypten alphabetic Demotic signs Amun bilingual Book of Thoth century chapter charaktêres cipher column Coptic Corpus Hermeticum cult cultural Demotic and Greek Demotic Magical Papyrus Demotic spells Demotic version discussion divine Egyp Egypt Egyptian language Egyptian priesthood Egyptian priests epithet extant glosses GMPT god’s gods Greco-Roman period Greek invocation Greek loanwords Greek Magical Papyri Greek script Greek spells Griffith and Thompson Hellenistic hieratic hieroglyphic hymn ingredients Isis Janet H king language Leiden I 384 loanwords London and Leiden London-Leiden ma"at magical handbook magical spells magical texts magician Manetho manuscript Memphis Nubian occurs Old-Coptic Osiris Ouphôr Papyrus of London passage PDM xiv PGM XII pharaonic preserved priestly pseudepigraphy Ptolemaic period recipe religion religious rite Roman Egypt Roman period Seth Setne stele term Theban Magical Library Thessalos Thissen tian traditional transcription translation verso voces magicae vowels words written