*Please Dissect the following texts and provide me with hints to know what text is what.
I.In-class portions
1) Quotations (10 quotations, worth 0.5 points each).Students will need to identify quotations of the primary sources (including the theoretical writings) from a list of possible choices. Basically, I will give you a citation that we discussed in class, usually around 4-8 lines in length, and then you will need to choose what text it is based on the options that I give at the top of the page. There will probably be around 8 texts (more or less). Here is a list of the sources that we covered; again, you should be keeping track of what specific excerpts we cover in class from these sources, from powerpoint lectures and handouts (group activities, in-class writing, etc.)
Plotinus, Enneads and Pliny, Natural History
Augustine, City of God and On Christian Doctrine
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
Evans-Pritchard, Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic among the Azande
Frazer, The Golden Bough
Mauss, “Outline of a General Theory of Magic”
Greek Magical Papyri , “invisibility spells” (2)
Jewish Aramaic magical bowls (VA.2423 and VA.2416)
Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 67a
Hippocrates, On the Sacred Disease
Medea and Circe (selections)
Coptic Texts of Ritual Power (Meyer and Smith)
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