Ebook: My Lots are in Thy Hands. Sortilege and Its Practitioners in Late Antiquity

Intro; Contents; Preface; Figures; Abbreviations; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Literature of Lot Divination; Chapter 2 The Instruments of Lot Divination; Chapter 3 Fateful Spasms: Palmomancy and Late Antique Lot Divination; Chapter 4 Hermēneiai in Manuscripts of John's Gospel: an Aid to Bibliomancy; Chapter 5 Hermeneutics and Divination: a Unique Syriac Biblical Manuscript as an Oracle of Interpretation; Chapter 6 Secondhand Homer; Chapter 7 Sortes Biblicae Judaicae; Chapter 8 The Sortes Barberinianae within the Tradition of Oracular Texts.