Laura Salah Nasrallah

Ancient Christians and the Power of Curses (eBook, ePUB)

Magic, Aesthetics, and Justice

• Format: ePub

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009405768
• Artikelnr.: 72353027

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Curses, Religion, Aesthetics
1. Making justice: curses, Justin Martyr, and the nailing of documents
2. Substance and story: a greengrocer and the drowned Pharaoh at Antioch
Interlude
3. Tongues, breath, stutter: 1 Corinthians and a Corinthian curse
4. Incantation: sound and song as curse, cure, and gospel
Conclusions.