Ancient Christians lived in a world of 'magic.' They and others-particularly those of low status-used curses as ritual objects to seek justice from gods and other beings. These curses, and invective against them, reveal the complexity of ancient Mediterranean religions and their aesthetics: their use of materiality, poetics, song, and incantation.
Ancient Christians lived in a world of 'magic.' They and others-particularly those of low status-used curses as ritual objects to seek justice from gods and other beings. These curses, and invective against them, reveal the complexity of ancient Mediterranean religions and their aesthetics: their use of materiality, poetics, song, and incantation.
Laura Salah Nasrallah, the Buckingham Professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale University, is author of An Ecstasy of Folly: Prophecy and Authority in Early Christianity (2003); Christian Responses to Roman Art and Architecture: The Second-Century Church Amid the Spaces of Empire (2010), and Archaeology and the Letters of Paul (2019).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Curses, Religion, Aesthetics 1. Making justice: curses, Justin Martyr, and the nailing of documents 2. Substance and story: a greengrocer and the drowned Pharaoh at Antioch Interlude 3. Tongues, breath, stutter: 1 Corinthians and a Corinthian curse 4. Incantation: sound and song as curse, cure, and gospel Conclusions.
Introduction: Curses, Religion, Aesthetics 1. Making justice: curses, Justin Martyr, and the nailing of documents 2. Substance and story: a greengrocer and the drowned Pharaoh at Antioch Interlude 3. Tongues, breath, stutter: 1 Corinthians and a Corinthian curse 4. Incantation: sound and song as curse, cure, and gospel Conclusions.
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