Code-switching with the Gods: The Bilingual (Old Coptic-Greek) Spells of PGM IV (P. Bibliotheque Nationale Supplement Grec. 574) and their Linguistic, Religious, and Socio-Cultural Context in Late Roman Egypt (Zeitschrift fur agyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde - Beiheft)

by Edward Oliver David Love

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This volume provides the first comprehensive text edition of the Egyptian language sections of P. Bibliotheque Nationale Supplement Grec. 574 (PGM IV) and analysis of their script, language, and the bilingual spells which they are part of. The magical practices preserved in the PDM and PGM have been published for nearly a century, yet it is only recently that research has focused on investigating the complex relationship between the languages, scripts, and religious traditions they exhibit, as well as the question of who composed, copied, and practiced these spells. Focusing on the bilingual divinations, lust spell, and exorcism of PGM IV, written in the Egyptian and Greek languages - and rendered in Old Coptic scripts and the Greek script respectively - this volume analyses their textual content and ritual mechanics, contextualised among the PDM and PGM, and investigates the potential identities of the magical practitioners of late Roman and Late Antique Egypt. Encompassing the disciplines of Egyptology, Coptology, Papyrology, and Late Antique studies, this volume focuses in particular on the themes of magical practice, bilingualism, script, and the social context of magic in Egypt during the 2nd to 4th centuries CE.
  • ISBN10 3110467836
  • ISBN13 9783110467833
  • Publish Date 24 October 2016
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country DE
  • Imprint De Gruyter