
Beware the Evil Eye Volume 2
The Evil Eye in the Bible and the Ancient World--Greece and Rome
John H. Elliott(Author)
Wipf & Stock Publishers
Published on 22. January 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
370 pages
978-1-4982-0499-6 (ISBN)
Description
In the present volume, Elliott addresses the most extensive sources of Evil Eye belief in antiquity--the cultures of Greece and Rome. In this period, features of the belief found in Mesopotamian and Egyptian sources are expanded to the point where an "Evil Eye belief complex" becomes apparent. This complex of features associated with the Evil Eye--human eye as key organ of information, eye as active not passive, eye as channel of emotion and dispositions, especially envy, arising in the heart, possessors, victims, defensive strategies, and amulets--is essential to an understanding of the literary references to the Evil Eye. This volume, along with chapter 2 of volume 1, sets and illuminates the context for examining Evil Eye belief and practice in the Bible and the biblical communities (the focus of volume 3).
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Language
English
Place of publication
Eugene
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
603 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4982-0499-6 (9781498204996)
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Beware the Evil Eye Volume 2
The Evil Eye in the Bible and the Ancient World-Greece and Rome
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John H. Elliott is Professor Emeritus of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Francisco. He is the author of Conflict, Community, and Honor (2007).