John G Gager
Biographic Data
| ID | 447183 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John G Gager |
| GIVEN NAMES | John G |
| FAMILY NAME | Gager |
| SIGNATURE | GAGER J G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 130 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 11 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Entretien avec John G. Gager
Barbu Daniel, Volokhine Delphine, Gager John. Entretien avec John G. Gager. In: ASDIWAL. Revue genevoise d'anthropologie et d'histoire des religions, n°5, 2010. pp. 17-27
Scholarship as Moral Vision: David Flusser on Jesus, Paul, and the Birth of Christianity
David Flusser, the late Israeli scholar of the New Testament and early Judaism, wrote extensively on the figure of Jesus. He insisted that Jesus be understood entirely within the framework of first-century Palestinian Judaism. For Flusser, Jesus was not a critic of Judaism, not even a reformer, but the embodiment of what Flusser calls the moral essence of ancient Judaism. Against those who have seen in Jesus an illiterate am ha-arets, Flusser arg…
Simon le "magicien." Actes 8,5-25 et l'accusation de magie contre les prophètes thaumaturges dans l'antiquité
Abbreviations and Conventions
Miscellaneous Tablets
Among the various types of defixiones, the miscellaneous examples col lected in this chapter are surely the most arbitrary. Perhaps they should be labeled as “personals.” Of course, all curse tablets and binding spells are personal by definition, in the sense that they represent a ritual me dium whereby individual persons sought redress or advantage against other persons. In short, every defixio, of whatever sort, could be in cluded among those b…
Pleas for Justice and Revenge
Thus far we have employed a minimalist definition of curse tablets and binding spells as inscribed sheets of metal or other material that were used and generally commissioned, at least in the Roman period, by private individuals (clients) in order to influence-against their will and through the agency of spirits, daimones, and deities-the behavior and welfare of personal enemies and rivals (targets). 1 Beyond this, the forms and functions of defi…
Testimonies
In this chapter, we endeavour to collect all references to defixiones from various types of ancient literature-histories, fiction, drama, philosophical and theological treatises, encyclopedias, Christian saints’ lives, legal codes, poetry, manuals of various kinds (including those for producing defixiones), and even public inscriptions. In addition to the tablets them selves, these references testify to the broad and deep dissemination of defixio…
Glossary of Uncommon Words
Subject Greek and Roman Archaeology Cultural Studies Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Competition in Theater and Circus
In the major cities of the ancient Mediterranean world, much of life unfolded in public settings-theaters, amphitheaters, hippodromes, odeums, stadiums, and circuses. Whereas large installations like stadi ums and circuses tended to be limited to cult centers (Greece) and large cities (Rome), theaters and odeums (small covered lecture halls) were much more common.Depending on the size of the building, crowds could vary considerably: several hundr…
Businesses, Shops, and Taverns
Most scholarship on the ancient world is biased toward aristocracies and elites. Nowhere is this more evident than in the study of work and workers. Even more than today, most people spent most of their waking hours at work-whether as slaves who had no say in the matter and who for the most part received no wages,1 or as free laborers who hired themselves to independent employers or worked for themselves, as craftsmen, shop keepers, or profession…
Antidotes and Counterspells
In his account of the Jewish uprising against the foreign dynasty of the Greek Seleucids, the pious editor of 2 Maccabees relates the following episode (12:34-39): Judas, surnamed Maccabeus (“the hammerer”), lost a number of his men in battle; on the following day, when Judas went out to recover their bodies, he discovered that every fallen soldier had been wearing an amulet (“sacred tokens of the idols of Jamnia”), which, the editor notes in a s…
Sex, Love, and Marriage
It does not require a deep commitment to Freudian psychology to recognize that the arena of sexual passion and fantasy generated the two basic circumstances associated with the use of defixiones in the ancient world-competition involving status and uncertainty of outcome. Thus it should come as no great surprise to discover that roughly one-quarter of all surviving tablets concern “matters of the heart.”While the pre served specimens-whether as r…
Tongue-Tied in Court: Legal and Political Disputes
From the writings of ancient historians and public orators, it has long been recognized that lawsuits and public trials constituted a fundamental feature of life in the Greco-Roman world. With the possible exception of modern America, no society has been more notorious for litigation than classical Athens. A character in Aristophanes’ Peace comments that Athenians never do anything but try cases.
Curse Tablets and Binding Spells from the Ancient World
Jews, Christians and the Dangerous Ones in Between
Curse Tablets and Binding Spells from the Ancient World
In the ancient Graeco-Roman world, it was a common practice to curse an enemy or rival by writing an incantation on a tablet and dedicating it to a god or spirit. More than a thousand such texts, written between the fifth century BC and the fifth century AD, have been discovered in places ranging from North Africa to England, and from Syria to Spain. Until now, however, there has been no English translation of these tablets and indeed the texts t…
"Maccoby's "The Mythmaker
A New Translation of Ancient Greek and Demotic Papyri, Sometimes Called Magical The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation, Including the Demotic Spells, Vol. 1, Texts . H. D. Betz
Jews, Gentiles, and Synagogues in the Book of Acts
Modern criticism of the book of Acts began with a hyper-Cartesian decision to doubt everything simultaneously. The author was not to be trusted as a reliable reporter on any issue of significance—the character and fate of the believers in Jerusalem, the status and role of Peter, the teaching of Paul, and so on. Recently, a former student of Krister Stendahl, A. T. Kraabel, has proposed that we should extend our skepticism to yet another area of A…
The Origins of Anti-Semitism: Attitudes toward Judaism in Pagan and Christian Antiquity
Body-symbols and social reality: Resurrection, incarnation and asceticism in early Christianity
Mary Douglas has invited historians of religion to test her hypothesis about the social meaning of body symbols. Her view that body symbolism always points in the direction of social concerns and that efforts to separate body and spirit indicate sentiments of revolt and alienation has proved fruitful in several areas. Of course there is nothing particularly novel in the proposal that the body can be seen as a symbol of wider realities. The Stoics…
Moses in Greco-Roman Paganism
The Gospels and Jesus: Some Doubts about Method
Some Attempts to Label the Oracula Sibyllina , Book 7
Among the surviving books of the Sibylline Oracles, Book 7 has aroused particular interest because of its allegedly Jewish-Christian and Gnostic character. A. Rzach has described the author of Book 7 as “ein durch die Gnosis beeinflusster, vielleicht aus dem Judentume ... hervorgegangener Christ.” J. Geffcken regards the book as a product of Jewish Christianity with traces of Gnostic influence. And A. Kurfess, in an article which bids fair to bec…
Marcion and Philosophy
MARCION AND PHILOSOPHY BY JOHN G. GAGER In a recent article, U. Bianchi has once again sought to determine the roots of Marcion's thought: biblical theologian or gnostic teacher?' Such has been the focus of Marcion studies since the appearance of Harnack's monograph in 1921.2 2 Hamack argues forcefully, one might even say desperately, that Marcion's thought can only be understood as a radical attempt by this second century figure to recover and r…
Curse Tablets and Binding Spells from the Ancient World
Curse Tablets and Binding Spells from the Ancient World
In the ancient Graeco-Roman world, it was a common practice to curse an enemy or rival by writing an incantation on a tablet and dedicating it to a god or spirit. More than a thousand such texts, written between the fifth century BC and the fifth century AD, have been discovered in places ranging from North Africa to England, and from Syria to Spain. Until now, however, there has been no English translation of these tablets and indeed the texts t…
Body-symbols and social reality: Resurrection, incarnation and asceticism in early Christianity
Mary Douglas has invited historians of religion to test her hypothesis about the social meaning of body symbols. Her view that body symbolism always points in the direction of social concerns and that efforts to separate body and spirit indicate sentiments of revolt and alienation has proved fruitful in several areas. Of course there is nothing particularly novel in the proposal that the body can be seen as a symbol of wider realities. The Stoics…
Le Judaisme et le Christianisme antique d' Antiochus Epiphane a Constantin
Book Review| December 01 1970 Le Judaïsme et le Christianisme antique d’ Antiochus Epiphane à Constantin Le Judaïsme et le Christianisme antique d’ Antiochus Epiphane à Constantin, Marcel Simon and André Benoit. John G. Gager, Jr. John G. Gager, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Biblical Literature (1970) 89 (4): 519–521. https://doi.org/10.2307/3263492 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Se…
Some Attempts to Label the Oracula Sibyllina , Book 7
Among the surviving books of the Sibylline Oracles, Book 7 has aroused particular interest because of its allegedly Jewish-Christian and Gnostic character. A. Rzach has described the author of Book 7 as “ein durch die Gnosis beeinflusster, vielleicht aus dem Judentume ... hervorgegangener Christ.” J. Geffcken regards the book as a product of Jewish Christianity with traces of Gnostic influence. And A. Kurfess, in an article which bids fair to bec…
Marcion and Philosophy
MARCION AND PHILOSOPHY BY JOHN G. GAGER In a recent article, U. Bianchi has once again sought to determine the roots of Marcion's thought: biblical theologian or gnostic teacher?' Such has been the focus of Marcion studies since the appearance of Harnack's monograph in 1921.2 2 Hamack argues forcefully, one might even say desperately, that Marcion's thought can only be understood as a radical attempt by this second century figure to recover and r…
Moses in Greco-Roman Paganism
The Gospels and Jesus: Some Doubts about Method
Body-symbols and social reality: Resurrection, incarnation and asceticism in early Christianity
Mary Douglas has invited historians of religion to test her hypothesis about the social meaning of body symbols. Her view that body symbolism always points in the direction of social concerns and that efforts to separate body and spirit indicate sentiments of revolt and alienation has proved fruitful in several areas. Of course there is nothing particularly novel in the proposal that the body can be seen as a symbol of wider realities. The Stoics…
The Origins of Anti-Semitism: Attitudes toward Judaism in Pagan and Christian Antiquity
Jews, Gentiles, and Synagogues in the Book of Acts
Modern criticism of the book of Acts began with a hyper-Cartesian decision to doubt everything simultaneously. The author was not to be trusted as a reliable reporter on any issue of significance—the character and fate of the believers in Jerusalem, the status and role of Peter, the teaching of Paul, and so on. Recently, a former student of Krister Stendahl, A. T. Kraabel, has proposed that we should extend our skepticism to yet another area of A…
A New Translation of Ancient Greek and Demotic Papyri, Sometimes Called Magical The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation, Including the Demotic Spells, Vol. 1, Texts . H. D. Betz
"Maccoby's "The Mythmaker
Abbreviations and Conventions
Miscellaneous Tablets
Among the various types of defixiones, the miscellaneous examples col lected in this chapter are surely the most arbitrary. Perhaps they should be labeled as “personals.” Of course, all curse tablets and binding spells are personal by definition, in the sense that they represent a ritual me dium whereby individual persons sought redress or advantage against other persons. In short, every defixio, of whatever sort, could be in cluded among those b…
Pleas for Justice and Revenge
Thus far we have employed a minimalist definition of curse tablets and binding spells as inscribed sheets of metal or other material that were used and generally commissioned, at least in the Roman period, by private individuals (clients) in order to influence-against their will and through the agency of spirits, daimones, and deities-the behavior and welfare of personal enemies and rivals (targets). 1 Beyond this, the forms and functions of defi…
Testimonies
In this chapter, we endeavour to collect all references to defixiones from various types of ancient literature-histories, fiction, drama, philosophical and theological treatises, encyclopedias, Christian saints’ lives, legal codes, poetry, manuals of various kinds (including those for producing defixiones), and even public inscriptions. In addition to the tablets them selves, these references testify to the broad and deep dissemination of defixio…
Glossary of Uncommon Words
Subject Greek and Roman Archaeology Cultural Studies Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Competition in Theater and Circus
In the major cities of the ancient Mediterranean world, much of life unfolded in public settings-theaters, amphitheaters, hippodromes, odeums, stadiums, and circuses. Whereas large installations like stadi ums and circuses tended to be limited to cult centers (Greece) and large cities (Rome), theaters and odeums (small covered lecture halls) were much more common.Depending on the size of the building, crowds could vary considerably: several hundr…
Businesses, Shops, and Taverns
Most scholarship on the ancient world is biased toward aristocracies and elites. Nowhere is this more evident than in the study of work and workers. Even more than today, most people spent most of their waking hours at work-whether as slaves who had no say in the matter and who for the most part received no wages,1 or as free laborers who hired themselves to independent employers or worked for themselves, as craftsmen, shop keepers, or profession…
Antidotes and Counterspells
In his account of the Jewish uprising against the foreign dynasty of the Greek Seleucids, the pious editor of 2 Maccabees relates the following episode (12:34-39): Judas, surnamed Maccabeus (“the hammerer”), lost a number of his men in battle; on the following day, when Judas went out to recover their bodies, he discovered that every fallen soldier had been wearing an amulet (“sacred tokens of the idols of Jamnia”), which, the editor notes in a s…
Sex, Love, and Marriage
It does not require a deep commitment to Freudian psychology to recognize that the arena of sexual passion and fantasy generated the two basic circumstances associated with the use of defixiones in the ancient world-competition involving status and uncertainty of outcome. Thus it should come as no great surprise to discover that roughly one-quarter of all surviving tablets concern “matters of the heart.”While the pre served specimens-whether as r…
Tongue-Tied in Court: Legal and Political Disputes
From the writings of ancient historians and public orators, it has long been recognized that lawsuits and public trials constituted a fundamental feature of life in the Greco-Roman world. With the possible exception of modern America, no society has been more notorious for litigation than classical Athens. A character in Aristophanes’ Peace comments that Athenians never do anything but try cases.
Curse Tablets and Binding Spells from the Ancient World
Jews, Christians and the Dangerous Ones in Between
Curse Tablets and Binding Spells from the Ancient World
In the ancient Graeco-Roman world, it was a common practice to curse an enemy or rival by writing an incantation on a tablet and dedicating it to a god or spirit. More than a thousand such texts, written between the fifth century BC and the fifth century AD, have been discovered in places ranging from North Africa to England, and from Syria to Spain. Until now, however, there has been no English translation of these tablets and indeed the texts t…
Simon le "magicien." Actes 8,5-25 et l'accusation de magie contre les prophètes thaumaturges dans l'antiquité
Scholarship as Moral Vision: David Flusser on Jesus, Paul, and the Birth of Christianity
David Flusser, the late Israeli scholar of the New Testament and early Judaism, wrote extensively on the figure of Jesus. He insisted that Jesus be understood entirely within the framework of first-century Palestinian Judaism. For Flusser, Jesus was not a critic of Judaism, not even a reformer, but the embodiment of what Flusser calls the moral essence of ancient Judaism. Against those who have seen in Jesus an illiterate am ha-arets, Flusser arg…
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