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Invoking Humans in Roman-Era Oaths: Emotional Relations and Divine Ambiguity.

This article examines Roman-era oaths invoking nondeities, especially persons. It argues that rather than invoking quasi-deities or persons to be punished by the gods in case of perjury, as usually understood in the past, these invocations could have two concurrent functions: honoring the invoked pe...

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Published in:Numen: International Review for the History of Religions Vol. 68; no. 4; pp. 382 - 411
Main Author: Blidstein, Moshe
Format: Article
Published: Brill Academic Publishers 2021
Subjects:
Ambiguity
Oaths
Latin poetry
Rabbinical literature
Sermon (Literary form)
Roman Empire, 30 B.C.-A.D. 476
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