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Doctrines of Elchesaites (2)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list)
Celestial omens (Enūma Anu Enlil)
05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore
05.02 Omen interpretation
05.02.01 Celestial omens (Enūma Anu Enlil)
Incantion-prayers and rituals (Šuilla)
05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore
05.04 Magic and exorcism
05.04.01 Incantion-prayers and rituals (Šuilla)
Sabians
12 Assyrian Identity
12.03 Assyrian identity in Christian Era
12.03.02 Continuity of “Old Faith” beside Christianity
12.03.02.02 Sabians

Keywords
Elchesaites

Period
3rd century CE
5th century CE
Byzantine Empire
Roman Empire

Channel
Byzantine philosophers and scholars
Christian-Roman philosophers and scholars

Text
Hippolytus, Refutatio 9.14.2-3:
They (= Elchesaites) are so conceited as to claim that they have foreknowledge, clearly using as starting-points the measures and numbers of the Pythagorean science … They also adhere to mathematics and astrology and magic as if they were true, and making use of these they confuse injudicious people, who as a result believe them to possess a powerful doctrine. They teach certain incantations and spells for those bitten by a dog and for those possessed of demons and those afflicted with other diseases.

Theodoret, Haereticarum Fabularum Compendium 2.7.4:
They also use incantations and invocations of demons on the consent of the elements. They embraced astrology, the error of magic and mathematics, and they called themselves “prognostics”.

Sources (list of abbreviations)
Hippolytus, Refutatio 9.14.2-3
Theodoret, Haereticarum Fabularum Compendium 2.7.4

Bibliography

Luttikhuizen 1985, 47, 148

Luttikhuizen Gerard P. The Revelation of Elchasai. Investigations into the Evidence for a Mesopotamian Jewish Apocalypse of the Second Century and its Reception by Judeo-Christian Propagandists. Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr 1985.

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