Through a glass darkly : magic, dreams & prophecy in ancient Egypt / editor, Kasia Szpakowska ; contributors, John Baines [and others].

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Swansea : Classical Press of Wales ; Oakville, CT : Distributed in the US by David Brown Book Co., 2006.
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Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Introduction: Tomorrow is yesterday / Kasia Szpakowska
  • Display of magic in Old Kingdom Egypt / John Baines
  • Corn-mummies, amulets of life / Maria Centrone
  • Emergent flints / Carolyn Graves-Brown
  • The end is near / Leonard H. Lesko
  • Heka, dreams, and prophecy in ancient Egyptian stories / Alan B. Lloyd
  • On puns and divination: Egyptian dream exegesis from a comparative perspective / Scott B. Noegel
  • Lucian's tale of The sorcerer's apprentice in context / Daniel Ogden
  • Sinuhe's dreaming(s): the texts and meanings of a simile / Richard B. Parkinson
  • A black cat from the right, and a scarab on your head: new sources for ancient Egyptian divination / Joachim F. Quack
  • The dreams of the twins in St. Petersburg / John Ray
  • 'And each staff transformed into a snake': the serpent wand in ancient Egypt / Robert K. Ritner
  • A lost dream episode / Anthony Spalinger
  • Entangled, connected or protected?: the power of knots and knotting in ancient Egypt / Willeke Wendrich.
ISBN
  • 9781910589526 ((electronic bk.))
  • 1910589527 ((electronic bk.))
OCLC
994108094
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