TY - JOUR
T1 - Loosing Vows and Oaths in the Roman Empire and Beyond
T2 - Authority and Interpretation
AU - Blidstein, Moshe
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2018 Walter de Gruyter GmbH. All rights reserved.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Vows, dedications and promissory oaths were an important category of language for people in the ancient Mediterranean. Using various formulae, people promised the gods (in the case of vows and dedications), or each other (in the case of oaths), that they would perform certain acts in the future, giving more than usual force to their words. The purpose of this article is to investigate the mechanics and hermeneutics of promises backed by divine power in the ancient Mediterranean.
AB - Vows, dedications and promissory oaths were an important category of language for people in the ancient Mediterranean. Using various formulae, people promised the gods (in the case of vows and dedications), or each other (in the case of oaths), that they would perform certain acts in the future, giving more than usual force to their words. The purpose of this article is to investigate the mechanics and hermeneutics of promises backed by divine power in the ancient Mediterranean.
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1515/arege-2018-0016
DO - https://doi.org/10.1515/arege-2018-0016
M3 - Article
SN - 1436-3038
VL - 20
SP - 275
EP - 303
JO - Archiv fur Religionsgeschichte
JF - Archiv fur Religionsgeschichte
IS - 1
ER -