Christian Egypt

Menasseh ben Israel (1604–1657) was one of the best-known rabbis in early modern Europe. In the course of his life he became an important Jewish interlocutor for Christian scholars...

This book examines Greek amulets with Christian elements from late antique Egypt in order to discern the processes whereby a customary practice—the writing of incantations on amule...

Abstract This book is concerned with the Christianization of Latin poetry during the turbulent fifth century, a period in which the Roman world experienced barbarian...

On the heels of the advance since the twentieth-century of wholly physicalist accounts of human persons, the influence of materialist ontology is increasingly evident in Christian ...

This reference work, the first of three, brings together extracts from the major writings by Christians and Muslims that reflect their awareness of one another and the attitudes th...

Manuals that have survived from Graeco-Roman Egypt, such as the ‘Theban Magical Library’, are one of the main sources of information about customary ways of formulating incantation...