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contain Greek and/or Coptic magical and liturgical texts from Egypt and
other parts of the Roman Empire, including four new Coptic copies of
the Jesus-Abgar correspondence (information kindly provided by Roxanne Bélanger-Sarrazin), and seven new Greek texts edited by Michael Zellmann-Rohrer, six of which are from the new volume of the Oxyrhynchus papyri.
Two texts from the codex P. Heid. Inv. 685, an exorcism of a female demon and a pair of amulets for healing or protection using the Sator-formula;
our new reading reveals that the first of these describes the
Sator-formula as the names of the nails which bound Jesus to the cross, a
tradition attested in other Coptic magical texts which survives in the
Ethiopian Orthodox tradition.
P. Berlin 10587,
a curse against a perjurer. Our work on this papyrus has included its
redating, pushing the tenth century date proposed by its original editor
– almost impossible for a papyrus manuscript – to a more realistic fifth- or sixth-century date, making it now one of the earliest Coptic magical texts.
The long protective prayer attributed to Saint Gregory found in the famous codex Anastasy 9.
Our translation is the first to make use of the Greek parallel
versions, allowing us to correct several of the mistakes of previous
editors.
Vienna Nationalbibliothek K 7091,
an amulet to protect Iaohēu, son of Mikahēu, from various diseases; our
readings allow this difficult text to be read in full for the first
time.
The AWOL Index: The bibliographic data presented herein has been programmatically extracted from the content of AWOL - The Ancient World Online (ISSN 2156-2253) and formatted in accordance with a structured data model.
AWOL is a project of Charles E. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities at the Pattee Library, Penn State University
AWOL began with a series of entries under the heading AWOL on the Ancient World Bloggers Group Blog. I moved it to its own space here beginning in 2009.
The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.
The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.
AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.
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