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The author of the 'Refutation of All Heresies', competing bishop of Rome (ca. 225 CE), wrote perhaps the largest and most thoroughgoing attack on his (mainly Christian) opponents. His sensational thesis--that his enemies plagiarized their arguments from Greek philosophy, magic, …
The author of the 'Refutation of All Heresies', competing bishop of Rome (ca. 225 CE), wrote perhaps the largest and most thoroughgoing attack on his (mainly Christian) opponents. His sensational thesis--that his enemies plagiarized their arguments from Greek philosophy, magic, …
The Akkadian series Maqlû (Burning) is one of the most significant and interesting magical texts from the ancient Near East. It contains almost one hundred incantations and accompanying rituals directed against witches and witchcraft. But it is not a collection; rather, it actua…
"This volume brings together a representative sample of ancient Near Eastern written documents of prophecy from the second and first millennia BCE and provides nonspecialist readers translations, transliterations, and discussions of oracle reports and collections, quotations of …
"This volume brings together a representative sample of ancient Near Eastern written documents of prophecy from the second and first millennia BCE and provides nonspecialist readers translations, transliterations, and discussions of oracle reports and collections, quotations of …
This volume of more than 170 documents of prophecy from the ancient Near East brings together a representative sample of written documents from Mesopotamia, the Levant, and Egypt dating to the second and first millennia BCE. Nissinen's collection provides nonspecialist readers c…