[PDF.17vu] Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power

Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power

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 | #845935 in Books |  1994-03 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.50 x6.00 x1.25l, | File type: PDF | 407 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| There is nothing quite like it and so ordered it again|By pat bernardini|This is a scholarly work about early Coptic Christians belief in magic. The little illustrations are charming althought there are not many of them. . Originals are in museums. At the time, you could purchase magical spells from monks and this book details the practice. To me, It's fascinating. I purch|From Publishers Weekly|Traditionalists may find heretical the use of "Christian" as a modifier for "magic." But it's an apt combination for this gathering of previously untranslated curses, recipes and spells ritualistically cast by Egyptian Christians. In the C

This provocative collection of rites, spells, amulets, curses, and recipes of the early Coptic Christians documents Christianity as a living folk religion resembling other popular belief systems - something quite different from what theo-logical and doctrinal traditions have led us to believe. Like The Nag Hammadi Library, this extraordinary collection of little known incantatory texts radically alters our perception of Christianity as primarily a highly theological and ...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power   |  Marvin W. Meyer, Richard Smith. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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