

Этот сборник впервые вышел в свет в 1995 году и с тех пор выдержал несколько переизданий, он включает в себя 22 статьи различных авторов о магических ритуалах в эпоху Античности, преимущественно на Ближнем Востоке:
- Jonathan Z. Smith. Trading Places.
- Fritz Graf. Excluding the Charming: The Development of the Greek Concept of Magic.
- Robert K. Ritner. The Religious, Social, and Legal Parameters of Traditional Egyptian Magic.
- Richard H. Beal. Hittite Military Rituals.
- Billie Jean Collins. Ritual Meals in the Hittite Cult.
- J. A. Scurlock. Magical Uses of Ancient Mesopotamian Festivals of the Dead.
- Brian B. Schmidt. The “Witch” of En-Dor, 1 Samuel 28, and Ancient Near Eastern Necromancy.
- Stephen D. Ricks. The Magician as Outsider in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament.
- Jonathan Seidel. Charming Criminals: Classification of Magic in the Babylonian Talmud.
- Michael D. Swartz. Magical Piety in Ancient and Medieval Judaism.
- Rebecca Lesses. The Adjuration of the Prince of the Presence: Performative Utterance in a Jewish Ritual.
- William M. Brashear. New Greek Magical and Divinatory Texts in Berlin.
- Roy Kotansky. Greek Exorcistic Amulets.
- Leda Jean Ciraolo. Supernatural Assistants in the Greek Magical Papyri.
- Christopher A. Faraone. The Mystodokos and the Dark-Eyed Maidens: Multicultural Influences on a Late-Hellenistic Incantation.
- David Martinez. “May she neither eat nor drink”: Love Magic and Vows of Abstinence.
- Sarah lies Johnston. Defining the Dreadful: Remarks on the Greek Child-Killing Demon.
- Oliver Phillips. Singing Away Snakebite: Lucan’s Magical Cures.
- Jacques van der Vliet. Satan’s Fall in Coptic Magic.
- Jason David BeDuhn. Magical Bowls and Manichaeans.
- Todd Breyfogle. Magic, Women, and Heresy in the Late Empire: The Case of the Priscillianists.
- David Frankfurter. Narrating Power: The Theory and Practice of the Magical Historiola in Ritual Spells.
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