Ljuba M. Bortolani/Svenja Nagel:
Introduction & Acknowledgements
Part I: Egyptian, Greek and Mesopotamian Traditions of Magic: Different Genres, Perception of the 'Other' and Possible Transcultural Exchange
Franziska Naether:
Magical Practices in Egyptian Literary Texts: in Quest of Cultural Plurality -
William Furley:
Magic and Mystery at Selinus. Another Look at the Getty Hexameters -
Daniel Schwemer:
Beyond Ereskigal? Mesopotamian Magic Traditions in the Papyri Graecae Magicae
Part II: Cultural Plurality and Fusion in the Graeco-Egyptian Magical Papyri (PGM/PDM)
Single Handbooks and Magical Techniques
Richard Gordon:
Compiling P. Lond I 121 = PGM VII in a Transcultural Context -
Svenja Nagel:
Illuminating Encounters: Reflections on Cultural Plurality in Lamp Divination Rituals -
Ljuba M. Bortolani:
'We Are Such Stuff as Dream Oracles Are Made on': Greek and Egyptian Traditions and Divine Personas in the Dream Divination Spells of the Magical Papyri -
Christopher A. Faraone:
Cultural Plurality in Greek Magical Recipes for Oracular and Protective Statues
Specific Spells and Deities
Joachim Friedrich Quack:
The Heliopolitan Ennead and Geb as a Scrofulous Boar in the PGM. Two Case Studies on Cultural Interaction in Late-Antique Magic -
Richard Phillips:
Traditions of Transformation and Shape-Shifting in PGM XIII 270-77 -
Adria Haluszka:
Crowns of Hermanubis: Semiotic Fusion and Spells for Better Business in the Magical Papyri -
Marcela Ristorto:
Love Spell and Hymn to Aphrodite in PGM IV (2891-941)
Part III: Integration and Transformation of Graeco-Egyptian Magic in Jewish and Byzantine Spells
Gideon Bohak/Alessia Bellusci:
The Greek Prayer to Helios in
Sefer Ha-Razim
, in Light of New Textual Evidence -
Michael Zellmann-Rohrer:
Incantations in Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Greek: Change and Continuity.
