Abstract

In Making Amulets Christian, Theodore de Bruyn offers the first comprehensive study of “Christian” amulets in Greek from late antique Egypt, although he incorporates evidence from the wider Mediterranean. Since Egypt in late antiquity was a bilingual society, a study that focuses on Greek remains limited; further study of Coptic amulets remains a desideratum. [...]individuals in antiquity often read aloud as they copied, transcribing what they heard rather than what they saw; phonetic errors frequently result from copying a written exemplar. Despite this problem, de Bruyn demonstrates that amulets offer valuable insights and data for other fields in the study of late ancient (Egyptian) Christianity.

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