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... devil from the sphere of Jewish heresies to Greek and Roman serpentiform divinities. p.156, n.698: …M. Smith, The Jewish Elements in the Magical Papyri, in: Studies in the Cult of Yahweh, II (n. 3), 242-56, ...

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The Greek Magical Papyri are a set of documents from Egypt during the Roman Period (30 BCE – ...

... +/- the notions of syncretism outlined in the Greek Magical Papyri https://earlywritings.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=128926#p128926

... (Jewish) Angel. An internet blog tells me: For example, one of the magical papyri mentions Nephotes making a recipe to the Egyptian Pharaoh Wahibre Psamtik I {c.620 BC} ...

... Adamas, who is to be identified with the Greek Hermes. Now Hermes is the Logos , the ερμηνευς ... piety. There, in the Hermes prayer of the Papyri Graecae Magicae 8.49-50, a magus or mystes ... gradually detached completely from primitive magical rites and ‘pre’ imaginings, and takes on ...

... texts such as Egyptian pagan prayers and magical and astrological papyri. Many of them served as glosses to original hieratic ... of (folk?) Coptic appearing as a gloss in a later Greek work which probably dates to the mid-First Century ...

... from being spoken. Also, any links with Greek God-fearers is of interest. Belief that the ... a class of magicians called goetes. Tons of magical spells have been unearthed from ancient ... (Betz, Hans Dieter, ed) The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation-Including the Demotic Spells ...

... we encountered quite often in earlier times on Greek soil. That it really made its way into cult seems to be shown by a strange magical prayer which Wessely and Kenyon have published: ... of Hermes.” ** Text as by K. Preisendanz, Papyri Graecae Magicae, Vol. 2 [1931], p.25. {PGM ...

... come up before. See Hans Dieter Betz, ed, The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation-Including the Demotic Spells (1986) A tongue ...