«Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani»
An openness to different religious languages and an instrumental relationship with their rites and texts appear as the most typical characteristics of Christian magical prayers, especially those in Coptic language. These make use not only of expressions and rites belonging to different Christian tre...
| Published in: | Studi e materiali di storia delle religioni |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | Italian |
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Morcelliana
2010
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Studi e materiali di storia delle religioni
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| Further subjects: | B
Christians
B Worship B Meditation B Magic B Religion B Christianity B Prayer |
| Summary: | An openness to different religious languages and an instrumental relationship with their rites and texts appear as the most typical characteristics of Christian magical prayers, especially those in Coptic language. These make use not only of expressions and rites belonging to different Christian trends, but also of elements derived from traditional ("pagan") religions. The esoteric reading of Jesus' invocation on the cross, as found in Coptic magical prayers, is here taken into consideration because it tells us something of the relationship between environments practicing ritual power and more or less institutionalized forms of religion. The evocation of passion is often made up from different ritual elements deriving from Christian or Gnostic liturgy, but with specific innovations. Indeed, the crucifixion narrative is one of those which can not escape the attention of any person practicing ritual power, because of both the cosmic signs that accompany Jesus' agony and his words on the cross. These words, uttered in an already exceptional enivironment, are further qualified by being expressed in Hebrew. These words are to be considered onomata barbarika, which may gradually gain their independence from the text to which they belong and be contaminated with other onomata: hence the combination with Adonai, Sabaoth, Marmarmari, hence the many changes in the wording of the cry itself, hence the progressive detachment of the invocation from its original context. (English) |
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| ISSN: | 2611-8742 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Studi e materiali di storia delle religioni
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