Joseph L. Kimmel: Power in the Name

Cover: 9783111360287 | Power in the Name | A Comparative Analysis of Onomastic Invocations

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How do divine names channel power? This project analyzes, first of all, the invocation of particular divine names (e.g., Jesus, Aphrodite) to access power for activities like healing, protecting, and harming. In so doing, it focuses on texts and artifacts (e.g., amulets) from ancient Mediterranean communities, including both early Christian documents and Greek magical papyri. Additionally, it compares these materials with empowered names from a very different context: 10th-century Tibet, where names were similarly invoked to access otherworldly power, based upon Indic understandings of language. In both contexts, therefore, a primary feature of this project is the analysis of religious experience mediated via invocation of particular names.

The project then builds upon this primary-level onomastic analysis to consider how and why names were believed to work in this manner. Towards this end, the work comparatively considers major onomastic theories from the ancient Mediterranean world, including those of Plato, Origen, Tertullian, and Iamblichus. While the main focus of the project is the ancient Mediterranean world, the book will also address the Indo-Tibetan linguistic theories undergirding artifacts from that context.

Zusammenfassung

Joseph L. Kimmel, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, USA.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2025
Genre:	Religion & Theologie
Religion:	Christentum
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	235 S. 7 s/w Illustr. 2 farbige Illustr. 1 s/w Tab. 7 b/w and 2 col. ill. 1 b/w tbl.
ISBN-13:	9783111360287
ISBN-10:	3111360288
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Kimmel, Joseph L.
Hersteller:	De Gruyter
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Walter de Gruyter GmbH, De Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Str. 13, D-10785 Berlin, productsafety@degruyterbrill.com
Abbildungen:	7 b/w and 2 col. ill., 1 b/w tbl.
Maße:	230 x 155 x 15 mm
Von/Mit:	Joseph L. Kimmel
Erscheinungsdatum:	19.05.2025
Gewicht:	0,666 kg