Cultural Plurality in Ancient Magical Texts and Practices

Ljuba Merlina Bortolani (Herausgegeben von) Born 1980; studied Classics and Egyptology; 2012 PhD; since 2017 post-doc researcher at the department of Classical Philology at the University of Heidelberg.William Furley (Herausgegeben von) Born 1953; 1979 PhD; since 2003 Associate Professor of Classics, University of Heidelberg; Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of Classical Studies (School of Advanced Studies), London.Svenja Nagel (Herausgegeben von) Born 1984; studied Egyptology and Classical Archaeology; 2015 PhD; since 2017 post-doc researcher at the Institute of Egyptology at the University of Heidelberg.Joachim Friedrich Quack (Herausgegeben von) Born 1966; studied Egyptology, Semitic Studies, Biblical Archaeology, Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Pre- and Early History in Tübingen and Paris; 1990 Magister; 1993 Dr. phil.; 2003 Habilitation at the FU Berlin; Professor of Egyptology at the University of Heidelberg.

• Ljuba M. Bortolani/Svenja Nagel: Introduction & AcknowledgementsPart I: Egyptian, Greek and Mesopotamian Traditions of Magic: Different Genres, Perception of the 'Other' and Possible Transcultural ExchangeFranziska Naether: Magical Practices in Egyptian Literary Texts: in Quest of Cultural Plurality - William Furley: Magic and Mystery at Selinus. Another Look at the Getty Hexameters - Daniel Schwemer: Beyond Ereškigal? Mesopotamian Magic Traditions in the Papyri Graecae MagicaePart II: Cultural Plurality and Fusion in the Graeco-Egyptian Magical Papyri (PGM/PDM)Single Handbooks and Magical TechniquesRichard Gordon: Compiling P. Lond I 121 = PGM VII in a Transcultural Context - Svenja Nagel: Illuminating Encounters: Reflections on Cultural Plurality in Lamp Divination Rituals - Ljuba M. Bortolani: 'We Are Such Stuff as Dream Oracles Are Made on': Greek and Egyptian Traditions and Divine Personas in the Dream Divination Spells of the Magical Papyri - Christopher A. Faraone: Cultural Plurality in Greek Magical Recipes for Oracular and Protective StatuesSpecific Spells and DeitiesJoachim Friedrich Quack: The Heliopolitan Ennead and Geb as a Scrofulous Boar in the PGM. Two Case Studies on Cultural Interaction in Late-Antique Magic - Richard Phillips: Traditions of Transformation and Shape-Shifting in PGM XIII 270-77 - Adria Haluszka: Crowns of Hermanubis: Semiotic Fusion and Spells for Better Business in the Magical Papyri - Marcela Ristorto: Love Spell and Hymn to Aphrodite in PGM IV (2891-941)Part III: Integration and Transformation of Graeco-Egyptian Magic in Jewish and Byzantine SpellsGideon Bohak/Alessia Bellusci: The Greek Prayer to Helios in Sefer Ha-Razim, in Light of New Textual Evidence - Michael Zellmann-Rohrer: Incantations in Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Greek: Change and Continuity.