Scriptural Incipits on Amulets from Late Antique Egypt: Text, Typology, and Theory
Cover -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Critical Signs -- Introduction -- I. Survey of Scholarship -- II. Toward a New Approach to the Scriptural Incipits -- III. Rethinking the Category "Christian" Amulets -- IV. Section and Chapter Summaries -- Section 1: A Typo...
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Tübingen
Mohr Siebeck
2014
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| In: | Year: 2014 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Sanzo, Joseph Emanuel, Scriptural Incipits on Amulets from Late Antique Egypt] (2015) (Kraus, Thomas J., 1965 -)
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series/Journal: | Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity
v.84 |
| IxTheo Classification: | HA Bible |
| Further subjects: | B
Bible -- Quotations
B Inscriptions, Greek -- Egypt B Amulets, Greek |
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: Sanzo, Joseph Emanuel: Scriptural Incipits on Amulets from Late Antique Egypt : Text, Typology, and Theory. - Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck,c2014. - 9783161529658 |
| Summary: | Cover -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Critical Signs -- Introduction -- I. Survey of Scholarship -- II. Toward a New Approach to the Scriptural Incipits -- III. Rethinking the Category "Christian" Amulets -- IV. Section and Chapter Summaries -- Section 1: A Typology of Scriptural Incipits -- Chapter 1: On the Relation pars pro toto -- I. Pars pro toto, Metonymy, and Synecdoche -- II. Meronymic Relations -- II. 1. Meronymy and the Scriptures -- II. 2. Larger Scriptural Units -- II. 2. a. The Meronymic Status of the "Bible" -- II. 2. b. The Meronymic Status of the Gospels -- II. 2. c. Conclusions: The "Bible" and Its Sub-Corpora -- II. 3. Smaller Scriptural Units -- II. 3. a. The Meronymic Status of Biblical Psalms -- II. 3. b. The Meronymic Status of the Lord's Prayer -- II. 3. c. Conclusions: Smaller Scriptural Units -- III. Conclusions -- Chapter 2: The Use of Scripture on Amulets: Relevance and the Power of Precedent -- I. The Hierarchical Approach to the Scriptures on Amulets -- I. 1. "Relevance" and Scriptural Passages in Demonic Struggle -- I. 2. The Hierarchical Approach to Literature and the Late Antique Miscellany -- II. Hierarchy and Historiolae: The Power of Precedent and Paradigm -- III. Conclusions -- Excursus: The Hierarchical View of Scripture and Ritual Authority -- Section 2: A Collection of Scriptural Incipits -- Chapter 3: Potential Incipits of Multiunit Corpora -- I. The Gospel Incipits -- I. 1. Ritual Artifacts with at least the Four Gospel Incipits -- I. 2. Ritual Artifacts with Two or Three Gospel Incipits -- I. 3. Ritual Artifacts with One Gospel Incipit -- II. Other Possible Incipits of Multiunit Corpora -- III. Patterns and Trends -- IV. Conclusions -- Chapter 4: Potential Incipits of Single-unit Texts -- I. Psalmic Incipits -- I. 1. Incipits of LXX Ps 90 -- I. 2. Other Psalmic Incipits. II. Incipits of Other Single-unit Texts -- II. 1. Incipits of the Lord's Prayer -- II. 2. Other Incipits -- III. Single-unit or Multiunit Incipits? -- IV. Patterns and Trends -- V. Conclusions -- Chapter 5: Identifying an Incipit -- I. Incipits in the Extant Amuletic Record -- II. Implications -- II. 1. The Limited Selection of Incipits in the Extant Record -- II. 2. Incipits, Faithfulness to Protocols, and Ritual Efficacy -- III. Conclusions -- Section 3: A Theory of Scriptural Incipits -- Chapter 6: A Theory of Incipits of Multiunit Corpora and Single-unit Texts -- I. Toward a Theory of the Gospel Incipits: A Representative Case of Incipits of Multiunit Corpora -- I. 1. The Scope of Material Invoked by the Gospel Incipits -- I. 2. Metonymy and Incipits of Multiunit Corpora: Not pars pro toto, but pars pro partibus -- I. 3. The Gospel Incipits and the Ritual Use of "Gospels" in the Literary Record -- II. Toward a Theory of Incipits of Single-unit Texts -- III. The Distinction between Incipits of Multiunit Corpora and Incipits of Single-unit Texts: The Incipits on PSI VI 719 as a Test Case -- IV. The Incipits and Continuity and Innovation in the Ancient Mediterranean -- V. Conclusions -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources and Major Corpora of Ritual Artifacts -- Secondary Literature -- Index of Sources -- Hebrew Bible -- New Testament -- Ancient Authors and Literary Sources -- Ancient Manuscripts and Artifacts -- Index of Modern Authors -- Index of Subjects. The use of biblical and parabiblical texts on amulets and other apotropaic objects was ubiquitous in late antique Egypt. Among the passages most frequently cited were the opening lines ( incipits ) of the Gospels, the Psalms, and other scriptural texts. Scholars have repeatedly observed the apotropaic use of such incipits , but have yet to subject them to thorough and focused analysis. In the present volume, Joseph E. Sanzo addresses this scholarly need by offering the first sustained study of the scriptural incipits on Greek and Coptic amulets and other apotropaic objects from late antique Egypt. In addition to providing a catalog and edition of these texts, the author draws on insights from cognitive linguistics, ritual studies, and the history of the book to establish a typology of the incipits and to determine their ritual functions. Reihe Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum / Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity - Band 84 |
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| ISBN: | 3161529707 |