Ancient Christians and the Power of Curses - Nasrallah, Laura Salah
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"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"--

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"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"--
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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).