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Ещё раз об остраконе DefOlb 1 (De titulis Olbiae Ponticae et viciniis IV)
С. 34–36.
Shelov-Kovedyaev F. V.
The paper analyzes the history and peculiarities of well-known ostracon. The author takes conclusion that the artifact belong to class of "white" magic
Bochkor A., Вестник Санкт-Петербургского университета. Серия 12: Социология 2025 Т. 18 № 2 С. 229–241
The present study aims to explore the complex relationship between magic and religion in contemporary Russian society. Sociological studies acknowledge the challenge in differentiat-ing between the two spheres and uses a variety of approaches to define the boundary between magic and religion. However, the Russian Orthodox Church views magic as a distinct practice from religion ...
Added: February 12, 2026
Maksimenkova O. V., Сегал А. П., Вопросы философии 2025 № 10 С. 67–76
The study is devoted to the humans and artificial intelligence (AI) interaction. The authors view this interaction as mediated by interfaces that both simplify it and hide the real mechanisms of encoding and decoding messages (according to Shannon). In such a situation, the characteristics of the actor of communication are blurred, and it is not ...
Added: October 2, 2025
Пузанов Д. В., Ученые записки Казанского университета. Серия: Гуманитарные науки 2021 Т. 163 № 6 С. 168–178
Оружие в представлении северных германцев имело способность самостоятельно воздействовать на окружающий мир. Этот факт исследователи интерпретируют как свидетельство того, что норманны считали оружие близким к категории живых существ. В работе показано, что многие акторные характеристики оружия в верованиях северных германцев удачнее всего объясняются через концепт «биографии» предметов, в то время как конструкция «частично одушевленного» оружия ...
Added: June 10, 2025
Cherkashina A., Lyavdansky A., Rashid D., , in: From Moscow to Baghdad: Studies on Middle Eastern Christianity in Memory of Nikolai Seleznyov.: Brill, 2026. P. 389–455.
This article explores examples of influence from the Arabic magical traditions, both Christian and Muslim, that can be found in modern Syriac magical manuscripts. The following aspects of Arabic influence are discussed: visual elements (diagonal writing, kharaktēres, pseudo-Arabic script), terminology, texts containing Arabic formulae, magical practices, angels and demons (Gabriel and Michael, Tebʿā), and magic ...
Added: May 1, 2025
Gippius A., Russian Linguistics 2024 Т. 48 Статья 22
The author suggests a new interpretation of the inscription on a brick from the Dormition Cathedral of the Kiev Cave Monastery dated to the time of the construction of the cathedral (1073–1077). The previously proposed interpretations are rejected for linguistic reasons and because all of them were based on an incorrect assessment of the physical ...
Added: November 21, 2024
Minov S., , in: La religion populaire des chrétiens de tradition syriaque (Études syriaques 19).: P.: Librairie orientaliste Paule Geuthner S. A., 2024. P. 431–447.
The publication provides a comprehensive bibliography on popular religion, including magic and divination, among Syriac Christians. ...
Added: November 19, 2024
Minov S., , in: La religion populaire des chrétiens de tradition syriaque (Études syriaques 19).: P.: Librairie orientaliste Paule Geuthner S. A., 2024. P. 307–348.
In what follows, I provide a description of the contours of the magical discourse in relation to popular religion, as evidenced in the corpus of textual sources produced by Syriac Christians. Initially, I offer a brief excursus into the vocabulary and taxonomy of magic and divination in Syriac. This is followed by the main section, ...
Added: November 19, 2024
Minov S., , in: La religion populaire des chrétiens de tradition syriaque (Études syriaques 19).: P.: Librairie orientaliste Paule Geuthner S. A., 2024. P. 247–272.
This contribution offers a preliminary survey of the diverse contexts and means through which veneration of saints among Syriac Christians interacted with the lives of ordinary believers, influencing their religious practices and worldviews, and, in turn, undergoing changes as a result of their agency. However, given the scarcity of regional and period-specific studies on the ...
Added: November 19, 2024
Gippius A., Studi Slavistici 2023 Т. 20 № 1 С. 5–20
The article analyses the Glagolitic prayer on the lead amulet published by K. Popkonstantinov
and H. Miklas in 2009. A new reading of the central phrase is proposed based on the parallels in
Novgorod birchbark documents. In the second part of the article, the Varna amulet and artefacts of
its circle are compared with the birchbark documents about ...
Added: September 26, 2023
Shumilin M., Аристей. Aristeas: Вестник классической филологии и античной истории 2023 Т. 27 С. 59–69
In the notes a set of conjectural solutions to the textual problems in three
passages of Pliny the Elder’s Natural history is porposed (Plin. NH praef. 4, 7.1 and
7.16). Several factors contribute to the need to reconsider the standard text in these
places: the number of scholars who set to look for new textual solutions in Pliny ...
Added: September 18, 2023
Shelov-Kovedyaev F. V., В кн.: Причерноморье в античное и раннесредневековое время. Сборник научных трудов, посвящённых памяти профессора Виктора Павловича КопыловаВып. 3: Сборник научных трудов, посвящённых памяти профессора Виктора Павловича Копылова.: Издательство Южного федерального университета, 2024. Гл. 29 С. 348–350.
В статье анализируется магическое граффито из Китея ...
Added: July 10, 2023
Cherkashina A., Lyavdansky A., Scrinium: Journal of Patrology and Critical Hagiography 2022 Vol. 18 No. 1 P. 22–48
The first part of the inquiry on Syriac love charms was devoted to the recipe-type
charms. This article edits four more Syriac love charms, which are attributed to the so-called prayer-type. The special features of this type of Syriac love charms are addressed and compared with that of the recipe-type texts, edited in Part I. The ...
Added: December 17, 2022