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

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

1. Magic, Discourse, and Ideology

2. Barbarians, Magic, and Construction of the Other in Athens

3. Mascula Libido: Women, Sex, and Magic in Roman Rhetoric and Ideology

4. My Miracle, Your Magic: Heresy, Authority, and Early Christianities

5. Caution in the Kosher Kitchen: Magic, Identity, and Authority in Rabbinic Literature

Epilogue

Works Cited

Index

Related Subjects

• Comparative Religion

Series

• Gender, Theory, and Religion

About the Author

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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