Divining Gospel Oracles of Interpretation in a Syriac Manuscript of John 1st Edition by Jeff W Childers ISBN 9783110617214 3110617218

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ISBN 10: 3110617218
ISBN 13: 9783110617214
Author: Jeff W Childers

Divining Gospel Oracles of Interpretation in a Syriac Manuscript of John 1st Edition Table of contents:

1 Opening the Gospel

1.1 Inscribing a Divining Gospel

1.2 Christians and Their Books

1.2.1 A Bookish Religion

1.2.2 Books Dynamic in Form and Impact

1.3 Books as Objects

1.3.1 Materiality and Meaning

1.3.2 A Case Study: Gewargis’ Complex Book

1.4 Sacred Books as Objects of Power

1.4.1 Inscribing Amulets with Scriptural Potency

1.4.2 Magic or Christian Ritual?

1.4.3 Ambivalent Attitudes Towards Popular Religious Practices Involving Scriptural Artifacts

1.5 Elf-Charms, Incubi, and Codex-Relics: John’s Gospel in Popular Imagination and Ritual Use

1.6 Divining Gospel: An Overview

1.6.1 The Unique Character of the Syriac Version

1.6.2 The Plan of the Present Study

2 Divination in Late Antique Christian Practice

2.1 Tollo, Lege: A Famous Instance of Christian Sortilege

2.2 Dealing with Uncertainty: Patterns of Ancient Divination

2.2.1 Reading the Signs for Direction

2.2.2 The Technologies of Text-Based Divination

2.2.3 Scribes and Seers: Oracles as Literary Tradition and Manteis as Interpreters

2.2.4 Christian Appropriation of Text-Based Divination

2.3 Christian Divination and Sortilege

2.3.1 Knowledge from God, Knowledge for God

2.3.2 Sortes Biblicae

2.3.3 Christian Ticket Oracles and Shrines

2.3.4 Christianized “Books of Fate”

2.3.5 Lot Divination Texts with General Answers

2.3.6 Lot Divination Texts with Hermêneiai

2.4 Proscribing Text-Based Divination

2.5 Contested Practice, Marginal Books

3 Divining Gospels: A Suppressed and Neglected Genre

3.1 Using the Christian Gospels for Divination

3.2 “Silly Apophthegms:” Hermêneiai and the Divining Gospel in Modern Scholarship

3.3 Erased and Broken: The Fragmentary Evidence for Ancient Divining Gospels

3.3.1 Overview of Manuscripts

3.3.2 Manuscripts with Original Sortilege Material and Segmented Layout

3.3.3 Manuscript with Original Hermêneiai and Integrated Layout

3.3.4 Manuscripts with Secondary Hermêneiai

3.3.5 Manuscripts with Uncertain Connection to the Divining Gospel Tradition

3.4 A Shared Tradition

3.5 Books Exceptional in Form, Content, and Function

4 “Fearsome and Terrible Word of God:” A Closer Look at the Form and History of The Syriac Codex

4.1 Listening in on the Story of an Old Book

4.2 Origins of a Divining Gospel

4.2.1 Basic Characteristics of London, BL, Add. 17,119

4.2.2 Vague Clues: The Manuscript’s Concluding Notes

4.3 Correction, Repair, and Loss

4.3.1 Ownership and Early Annotation

4.3.2 Guardians of the Gospel

4.3.3 Missing Leaves and Mixed Priorities

4.3.4 Into the Modern Era

4.4 Interpreting the Codex as Material Object within a Living Tradition

5 “You Will Find What You Seek:” The Divinatory Material of the Syriac Codex

5.1 Presenting the Syriac Text

5.2 The Translation

5.3 Parallel Non-Syriac Sources

5.4 Puššāqē of a Syriac Divining Gospel (London, BL, Add. 17,119)

6 Interpreting Hermeneia: The Use and Function of the Divining Gospel

6.1 The Character of the Puššāqē

6.1.1 Basic Features of the Syriac Oracles

6.1.2 Divinatory Function of the Hermêneiai

6.1.3 Divination and Liturgy

6.2 Themes and Topics

6.3 Origins of the Apparatus

6.4 The Divining Gospel in Practice

6.4.1 Mechanisms of Sortilege in Late Antiquity and the Hermêneiai

6.4.2 The Wheel of Codex Sangermanensis

6.4.3 Flawed but Functional Tools

6.5 Picturing the Use of a Divining Gospel

7 Oracles of Biblical Interpretation: Examining the Relationship between Divination, John’s Gospel, and the User

7.1 Puššāqā as Interpretation

7.1.1 The Vocabulary of Lot Divination

7.1.2 Divining as Interpretation

7.2 Interpreting the Gospel of John

7.2.1 Thematic Resonances with the Gospel of John

7.2.2 Direct Quotation from John’s Gospel

7.2.3 Oracles at Home in John’s Gospel

7.2.4 Displaced Oracles: A Tense Hermeneutic

7.2.5 Synthesizing Oracles and Scripture

7.3 Finding Meaning in the Text: An Enhanced Picture of Use

7.4 Practitioners and Patrons: Picturing the Users of a Divining Gospel

7.5 Interpretive Tools of Pastoral Care

8 The Demise of the Divining Gospel

8.1 Oracles Overwritten

8.2 Forbidden Oracles, New Editions: The Demise of the Divining Gospel

8.3 Relics of a Distinct Hermeneutic

Bibliography

Appendix: Syriac Words in the Puššāqē

Indices

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