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Beware the Evil EyeJohn H. Elliott

Superstitions & Folk Belief

Beware the Evil Eye

The Evil Eye in the Bible and the Ancient World

by John H. Elliott

The first volume of a four-volume study by a New Testament scholar of evil-eye belief in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Israel and early Christianity. Elliott gathers texts, inscriptions and artefacts and argues that the belief shaped biblical language about envy and generosity.

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