Forbidden Oracles

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Forbidden Oracles

Author	: AnneMarie Luijendijk
File Size	: 55,8 Mb
Publisher	: Mohr Siebeck
Language	: English
Release Date	: 01 August 2014
ISBN	: 316152859X
Pages	: 232 pages

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"This book centers on The Gospel of the Lots of Mary, a previously unknown text preserved in a fifth- or sixth-century Coptic miniature codex. It presents the first critical edition and translation of this new text. My book is also a project about religious praxis and authority, as I situate the manuscript within the context of practices of and debates around divination in the ancient Mediterranean world."--Preface, p. [vii].

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