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Spells, Sorcerers and Spirits: Magic and the Occult in the Bible

Spells, Sorcerers and Spirits: Magic and the Occult in the Bible

Birkett, Kirsten

Paperback

Series: Latimer Studies, Book 82

Metaphysical GeneralBible StudiesChristian Living

ISBN10: 1916834116
ISBN13: 9781916834118
Publisher: Latimer Trust
Published: May 22 2025
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

Cultures, for as long as we have had history, have had some sense of magic. This book contends that some of it, at least, is real; it describes what that is, and why the Bible is so negative about it.

However, to say 'magic is real' in our contemporary culture could be very misleading. In fact, wrong. For what our culture thinks of as 'magic' - as vague and diffuse as that is - is likely to be very different from what was practised in the Ancient Near East (the things that modern English translations of the Old Testament call, for instance, sorcery or witchcraft) or in the Greco-Roman world (what the New Testament calls magic). It also may be very different from what is called 'magic' or 'witchcraft' in animistic or ancestor-worshipping cultures today.

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