04 - Magic in the Ancient World with Dr. Andrew Henry
Hearth of Hellenism
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The Late Antiquity of Magic and Religion
I love talking about late antiquity and you know polemics and stuff like that. Do you have anything you might want to share in terms of rhetorical situations of magics involvement and religion and Christian and what do you think about the fact that you're not a palimic? Sure I mean my favorite example is the acts of Paul and Peter it's almost like it reads like a comic book where they have this battle of this showman's battle between who's who has the most powerful supernatural ability. The story ends very climactically where Simon says hey I can fly so they build these tower he goes on top of the tower and he just starts flying then and Nero and all the crowd
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