Naming the Witch: Magic, Ideology, and Stereotype in the Ancient World
Kimberly B. Stratton
October, 2007
Cloth, 312 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13836-9
$45.00
/ £31.00
2008 Frank W. Beare Award from the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies
Short List—2008 Best First Book in the History of Religions from the American Academy of Religion
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Kimberly B. Stratton is an associate professor in the College of Humanities at Carleton University. She grew up in Seattle, holds a B.A. in English and religion from Barnard College, an M.T.S. from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in the history of religions in late antiquity from Columbia University. She has also studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research covers the fields of early Christianity, rabbinic Judaism, and Greco-Roman culture and religion.
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