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By Joseph Emanuel Sanzo

ISBN-10: 3161529650

ISBN-13: 9783161529658

using biblical and parabiblical texts on amulets and different apotropaic items used to be ubiquitous in past due old Egypt. one of the passages most often brought up have been the hole traces ( incipits ) of the Gospels, the Psalms, and different scriptural texts. students have many times saw the apotropaic use of such incipits , yet have not begun to topic them to thorough and targeted research. within the current quantity, Joseph E. Sanzo addresses this scholarly want through providing the 1st sustained research of the scriptural incipits on Greek and Coptic amulets and different apotropaic gadgets from overdue vintage Egypt. as well as supplying a catalog and version of those texts, the writer attracts on insights from cognitive linguistics, ritual stories, and the historical past of the ebook to set up a typology of the incipits and to figure out their ritual functions.

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