Wandrey, Irina  "Das Buch des Gewandes" und "Das Buch des Aufrechten". Dokumente eines magischen spätantiken Rituals, ediert, kommentiert und übersetzt
2004. XII, 354 pages. TSAJ 96

ISBN 978-3-16-148115-4
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Irina Wandrey

"Das Buch des Gewandes" und "Das Buch des Aufrechten"

Dokumente eines magischen spätantiken Rituals, ediert, kommentiert und übersetzt

["The Book of the Garment" and "The Book of the Righteous". Documents on a Magic Ritual in Late Antiquity, edited, commentated on and translated.]

Published in German.

For the first time in this book and in the German translation, Irina Wandrey makes two Hebrew texts available which contain significant proof of the fact that magic traditions which began in late antiquity continued up into the Middle Ages. The ritual of dressing in the name of God, which is described in the Book of the Garment and examined in the Book of the Righteous , is comparable to the initiation rites which were common in the first two centuries AD and which served to deify those taking part or to give them the divine power of an adept. Systasis rites for obtaining a heavenly assessor, initiation rites into mysteries as well as Christian baptism in the name of Jesus can be used here as correlatives. At the end of the book there is a commentary section on the connection of both texts to the history of religion.

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