Cover
List of Abbreviations
Figures
Introduction
1. Attitudes to Divination
2. Prophets
3. Take and Read
Table 1. The numbers of extant scrolls and codices with the texts of the Hebrew Bible, Greek Old and New Testament, and the Homeric poems (based on Leuven Database of Ancient Books: https://www.trismegistos.org/ldab/).
Fig. 1. Codex of the Gospel of St. John, known as St. Cuthbert’s
Gospel of St. John
4. Books and Bones
Fig. 2. The beginning of the Sortes Sanctorum in the ninthcentury
codex of Metz
Fig. 3. A stele with oracular text found in Kremna (modern
Çamlık, formerly Girme) in Pisidia
Fig. 4. Astragaloi (knucklebones), used, alongside dice, to
choose an answer from oracular texts
Fig. 5. The Gospel of the Lots of Mary, written in Sahidic
(sixth century)
Fig. 6. A page from the Codex Bezae with the beginning of the
Gospel of St. John
5. Divinatory Lots
Fig. 7. Oracular ticket from Antinoë discovered on 21 October
1984 at East Kom
Fig. 8. Oracular ticket from Antinoë, still folded and tied with
a string
6. Interrogating Demoniacs
7. Incubation
Conclusions
Bibliography
Index