Making amulets Christian: artefacts, scribes, and contexts

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 f...

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Main Author: De Bruyn, Theodore (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Oxford Oxford University Press [2017]
In:Year: 2017
Reviews:[Rezension von: De Bruyn, Theodore, Making amulets Christian : artefacts, scribes, and contexts] (2022) (Arzt-Grabner, Peter, 1959 -)
[Rezension von: De Bruyn, Theodore, Making amulets Christian : artefacts, scribes, and contexts] (2018) (Coogan, Jeremiah)
Series/Journal:Oxford early christian studies
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Egypt (Antiquity) / Amulet / Inscription / Greek language / Christianity / Late Antiquity
B Egypt (Antiquity) / Amulet / Inscription / Greek language / Christianity / Late Antiquity / History 300-600
Further subjects:B Magic Religious aspects Christianity
B Incantations
B Church History Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
B Amulets, Greek (Egypt)
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