Making amulets Christian : artefacts, scribes, and contexts / Theodore de Bruyn.

Author
De Bruyn, Theodore [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/​Created
  • Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
  • ©2017
Description
xx, 286 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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    Oxford early Christian studies [More in this series]
    Summary note
    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 can we 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. By comparing the formulation and writing of individual amulets that are similar to one another, one can observe differences in the culture of the scribes of these materials. It argues for 'conditioned individuality' in the production of amulets. On the one hand, amulets manifest qualities that reflect the training and culture of the individual writer. On the other hand, amulets reveal that individual writers were shaped, whether consciously or inadvertently, by the resources they drew upon-by what is called 'tradition' in the field of religious studies.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-267) and indexes.
    Contents
    • Normative Christian Discourse
    • Materials, Format, and Writing
    • Manuals of Procedures and Incantations
    • Scribal Features of Customary Amulets --Scribal Features of Scriptural Amulets
    • Christian Ritual Contexts.
    ISBN
    • 9780199687886 ((hardcover))
    • 0199687889 ((hardcover))
    LCCN
    2016962751
    OCLC
    969981212
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