Preface
1. Interrogating the Magic-Gender Connection - Kimberly B.
Stratton
Part I. Fiction and Fantasy: Gendering Magic in Literature
2. From Goddess to Hag: The Greek and the Roman Witch in Classical
Literature - Barbette Stanley Spaeth
3. "The Most Worthy of Women is a Mistress of Magic": Women as
Witches and Ritual Practitioners in 1 Enoch and Rabbinic Sources -
Rebecca Lesses
4. Gendering Heavenly Secrets? Women, Angels, and the Problem of
Misogyny and "Magic" - Annette Yoshiko Reed
5. Magic, Abjection, and Gender in Roman Literature - Kimberly B.
Stratton
Part II. Gender and Magic Discourse in Practice
6. Magic Accusations Against Women in Tacitus's Annals - Elizabeth
Ann Pollard
7. Drunken Hags with Amulets and Prostitutes with Erotic Spells:
The Re-Feminization of Magic in Late Antique Christian Homilies -
Dayna S. Kalleres
8. The Bishop, the Pope, and the Prophetess: Rival Ritual Experts
in Third-Century Cappadocia - Ayse Tuzlak
9. Living Images of the Divine: Female Theurgists in Late Antiquity
- Nicola Denzey Lewis
10. Sorceresses and Sorcerers in Early Christian Tours of Hell -
Kirsti Barrett Copeland
Part III. Gender, Magic, and the Material Record
11. The Social Context of Women's Erotic Magic in Antiquity - David
Frankfurter
12. Cheating Women: Curse Tablets and Roman Wives - Pauline
Ripat
13. Saffron, Spices, and Sorceresses: Magic Bowls and the Bavli -
Yaakov Elman
14. Victimology or: How to Deal With Untimely Death - Fritz
Graf
15. A Gospel Amulet for Joannia (P.Oxy. VIII 1151) - AnneMarie
Luijendijk
Kimberly B. Stratton is an associate professor in the College of
Humanities at Carleton University.
Dayna S. Kalleres is an associate professor in the Program for the
Study of Religion and the Department of Literature at the
University of California, San Diego.
This collection is overall of very high quality and has a cohesion
that few such collected volumes achieved.... [Stratton and
Kalleres] offer a comprehensive look at the relationship between
witchcraft, gender, and social hierarchies in the ancient,
particularly the Roman, world."--The Classical Journal
"...[A] wide-ranging volume that will be a valuable resource for
scholars." --Bryn Mawr Classical Review
"Those engaged in the study of ancient magic will need to consult
this volume. It offers
many useful insights and directions for future research."-- Society
of Biblical Literature
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