My Lots are in Thy Hands
Sortilege and its Practitioners in Late Antiquity
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Word Count
102,500 words, Guess
Page Count
410 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL37746589M
- ISBN-139789004384101
- ISBN-109004384103
- OCLC Control Number1048657777
- Library of Congress Control Number2018037417
Classifications
- LCCBF1779.L6M9 2019
Description
"Sortilege--the making of decisions by casting lots--was widely practiced in the Mediterranean world during the period known as late antiquity, between the third and eighth centuries CE. In My Lots are in Thy Hands: Sortilege and its Practitioners in Late Antiquity, AnneMarie Luijendijk and William Klingshirn have collected fourteen essays that examine late antique lot divination, especially but not exclusively through texts preserved in Greek, Latin, Coptic, and Syriac. Employing the overlapping perspectives of religious studies, classics, anthropology, economics, and history, contributors study a variety of topics, including the hermeneutics and operations of divinatory texts, the importance of diviners and their instruments, and the place of faith and doubt in the search for hidden order in a seemingly random world."--
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