In the midst of academic debates about the utility of the term “magic” and the cultural
meaning of ancient words like mageia or khesheph, this Guide to the Study of Ancient Magic …

As Christian leaders in the first through fifth centuries embraced ascetic interpretations of the
Bible and practices of sexual renunciation, sexual slander—such as the accusations Paul …

The utility of “magic” as an analytical category has been the subject of a robust debate within
the Humanities and Social Sciences over the past several decades. 1 This debate has …

This chapter explores the literature of the nascent Jesus movements and emergent
Christianity with its varying attitudes toward illegitimate ritual, in particular with such terms as …

In the 2008 presidential elections, candidates from both parties struggled to demonstrate the
differences in their positions on the pertinent issues in order to distinguish themselves from …

Carpocrates, Marcellina, and Epiphanes is the definitive study of the early Christian
theologian Carpocrates, his son Epiphanes, and the leader of the Carpocratian movement in …

Scholarship on ancient Greco-Roman magic over time and place, has largely focused on the
role and identity of ritual practitioners, investigating the nature and source of their perceived …

Many early Christian and late Second Temple texts describe deceit as impurity. In this
article, I delineate the development of this discourse and argue that it derived its power from …

This dissertation explores the representation of masculinity and the male body in the
Hebrew prophets. Bringing together a close analysis of biblical prophetic texts with …

Gott schuf den Menschen als Mann und Frau. Gab er ihnen dabei auch eine
Schöpfungsordnung mit, die Mann-und Frausein definiert und die Beziehung der …