Saturday, June 26, 2021

 

A List of Evils

Hans Dieter Betz, ed., The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation, Including the Demotic Spells, 2nd ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986), p. 316:
The text is found in Milan, Università Cattolica, P.Med. inv. 71.58. Here is the Greek, from Giovanni Geraci, "Un'actio magica contro afflizioni fisiche e morali," Aegyptus 59.1/2 (gennaio-dicembre 1979) 63-72 (at 65):
Bibliography here, to which add John G. Gager, ed., Curse Tablets and Binding Spells from the Ancient World (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), pp. 236-237 (number 128).

On virtue and vice lists (Tugendkataloge, Lasterkataloge) see David E. Aune, "Catalogues of vices and virtues," The Westminster Dictionary of New Testament and Early Christian Literature and Rhetoric (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2003), pp. 89-91.



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