Joseph Emanuel SANZO

Position
Associate Professor
Roles
Member of the Scientific Board of the "Ca' Foscari Research Hub for Global Challenges"
Coordinator of the Research Institute for International Studies
Telephone
041 234 8831
E-mail
joseph.sanzo@unive.it
Scientific sector (SSD)
Storia delle religioni [HIST-04/A]
Website
www.unive.it/people/joseph.sanzo (personal record)
Office
Department of Asian and North African Studies
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.dsaam
Where: Ca' Cappello
Research Institute
Research Institute for International Studies

Publications

Year Type Publication
Year Type Publication
In press Book Article Joseph Sanzo Amulet, Devotional Object, and Liturgy: On the Multifunctionality of Christian Manuscripts in Late Antique Christianity , Deities, Daemons, and Devices: Festschrift in Honor of Roy D. Kotansky, Brill
- ARCA card: 10278/5069863
In press Book Article Joseph Sanzo Mastrocinque, Magritte, Magic: Thinking With and Beyond Words, Images, and Materials on Magical Gems , (tentative title) Studies in Greek and Roman Religion: A Festschrift for Attilio Mastrocinque, Franz Steiner Verlag
- ARCA card: 10278/5069864
In press Book Article Sanzo, Joseph E. Objects of Protection and destruction: The Material Culture of “Magic” in the Mediterranean , The Routledge Handbook of the Archaeology of Ancient Mediterranean Religions, Routledge
- ARCA card: 10278/5003035
In press Entry in dictionary/encyclopedia Sanzo, Joseph P. Oxy. VIII 1151 , Prayer in the Ancient World, Brill
- ARCA card: 10278/5003036
2024 Scientific monograph or treatise sanzo Ritual Boundaries: Magic and Differentiation in Late Antique Christianity , Oakland, CA, University of California Press (ISBN 9780520399181; 0520399188)
- URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/5045340
2024 Book Article sanzo From Disturbing Dreams to Divine Dread: Fear in Late Antique Christian Magic from Egypt , Amulets of Protection and Texts for Fears in Antiquity, Mohr Siebeck, vol. 57, pp. 267-276 (ISBN 978-3-16-163549-6) (ISSN 1869-0513)
- ARCA card: 10278/5068382
2023 Journal Article Sanzo, Joseph The 24 Presbyters in Hay 1 (British Museum EA 10391): Ritual Practice and Biblical Reception at the Intersection of Inscription, Materiality, and Gesture in CIVILTÀ E RELIGIONI, vol. 9, pp. 43-62 (ISSN 2421-3152)
- URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/5035981
2023 Review in magazine Sanzo, Joseph Religion and the everyday life of Manichaeans in Kellis in BRYN MAWR CLASSICAL REVIEW, vol. link esterno (ISSN 1063-2948)
- ARCA card: 10278/5035980
2022 Review in magazine Sanzo, Joseph Review of Barrier, Jeremy Wade, Witch Hunt in Galatia. Magic, Medicine, and Ritual and the Occasion of Paul's Letter to the Galatians in BIBLICA, vol. 103.4, pp. 631-633 (ISSN 0006-0887)
- ARCA card: 10278/5003039
2022 Review in magazine Sanzo, Joseph Review of Richard Gordon, Francisco Marco Simón, Marina Piranomonte, Choosing magic: contexts, objects, meanings. The archaeology of instrumental religion in the Latin West. in BRYN MAWR CLASSICAL REVIEW, vol. 2022.03.30 (ISSN 1063-2948)
- ARCA card: 10278/5003038
2021 Journal Article Joseph Sanzo Early Jewish and Christian Magical Traditions in Comparison and Contact in COMPARATIVE ORIENTAL MANUSCRIPT STUDIES BULLETIN, vol. 7, pp. 217-233 (ISSN 2410-0951)
DOI - ARCA card: 10278/3743867
2021 Review in magazine Joseph Sanzo (Review of) Elm, Eva and Nicole Hartmann, eds. Demons in Late Antiquity: Their Perception and Transformation in Different Literary Genres (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2019) in THE JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY, vol. 72/4 (ISSN 0022-0469)
- ARCA card: 10278/3743879
2021 Review in magazine Joseph Sanzo (Review of) Spalding-Stracey, Gillian. The Cross in the Visual Culture of Late Antique Egypt (Leiden: Brill, 2020) in BRYN MAWR CLASSICAL REVIEW, vol. 2021.04.03 (ISSN 1063-2948)
- ARCA card: 10278/3743862
2021 Review in magazine Sanzo, Joseph (review of) Gerrit C. Vreugdenhil, Psalm 91 and Demonic Menace in TC, vol. 26, pp. 221-226 (ISSN 1089-7747)
- ARCA card: 10278/5003037
2021 Book Article Joseph Sanzo “Curses, Exorcisms, and Monetary Improprieties: Reassessing “Magic” in the Acts of the Apostles” , Antike Fluchtafeln und das Neue Testament: Materialität – Ritualpraxis – Texte, Mohr Siebeck (ISBN 978-3-16-157592-1)
- ARCA card: 10278/3743865
2020 Book Article Joseph E. Sanzo Deconstructing the Deconstructionists: A Response to Recent Criticisms of the Rubric 'Ancient Magic' , Ancient Magic: Then and Now, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag, pp. 25-46 (ISBN 978-3515127967)
- ARCA card: 10278/3730104
2020 Book Article Joseph E. Sanzo; Marianna Scapini Introduction , Ancient Magic: Then and Now, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag, pp. 19-22
- ARCA card: 10278/3730098
2020 Book Article Sanzo Prayer and Incantation on Early Christian Apotropaic and Curative Objects: Authoritative Traditions, Ritual Practices, and Material Artifacts , Civilizations of the Supernatural: Witchcraft, Ritual, and Religious Experience in Late Antique, Medieval, and Renaissance Traditions, Budapest, Trivent Publishing
- ARCA card: 10278/3730132
2019 Journal Article Sanzo (review of) AnneMarie Luijendijk and William E. Klingshirn, eds. My Lots are in thy Hands: Sortilege and its Practitioners in Late Antiquity (Leiden: Brill, 2018) in BRYN MAWR CLASSICAL REVIEW, vol. BMCR 2019.09.47 (ISSN 1063-2948)
- URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3730109
2019 Journal Article Sanzo J.E. At the crossroads of ritual practice and anti-magical discourse in late antiquity: Taxonomies of licit and illicit rituals in Leiden, Ms. AMS 9 and related sources in MAGIC, RITUAL, AND WITCHCRAFT, vol. 14, pp. 230-254 (ISSN 1556-8547)
DOI - ARCA card: 10278/3725276
2019 Review in magazine Joseph E. sanzo (review of) Christopher A. Faraone, The Transformation of Greek Amulets in Roman Imperial Times (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018) in Reading Religion, vol. November 20, 2019
- URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3730107
2019 Book Article Joseph Sanzo Early Christianity , Guide to the Study of Ancient Magic, Brill, pp. 198-239 (ISBN 9789004390751)
- URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3725278
2018 Review in magazine Sanzo (review of) Heidi Wendt, At the Temple Gates: The Religion of Freelance Experts in the Early Roman Period (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016) in BRYN MAWR CLASSICAL REVIEW, vol. 2017.05.18 (ISSN 1063-2948)
- ARCA card: 10278/3730115
2018 Review in magazine Sanzo (review of) Ljuba Merlina Bortolani, Magical Hymns from Roman Egypt: A Study of Greek and Egyptian Traditions of Divinity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016). in GNOMON, vol. 90, pp. 693-696 (ISSN 0017-1417)
- ARCA card: 10278/3730113
2018 Review in magazine Sanzo (review of) Magali de Haro Sanchez, ed. Écrire la magie dans l'antiquité. Actes du colloque international (Liège, 13-15 octobre 2011) (Liège: Presses Universitaires de Liège, 2015) in GNOMON, vol. 90, pp. 591-595 (ISSN 0017-1417)
- ARCA card: 10278/3730114
2017 Journal Article Sanzo J.E.; Korsvoll N.H. A New Testament Text on a Syriac Incantation Bowl: Eph. 6:10-17 on ibc 3 in VIGILIAE CHRISTIANAE, vol. 71, pp. 417-432 (ISSN 0042-6032)
DOI - ARCA card: 10278/3725274
2017 Journal Article Boustan R.; Sanzo J.E. Christian Magicians, Jewish Magical Idioms, and the Shared Magical Culture of Late Antiquity in THE HARVARD THEOLOGICAL REVIEW, vol. 110, pp. 217-240 (ISSN 0017-8160)
DOI - ARCA card: 10278/3725272
2017 Journal Article Joseph E. Sanzo Magic and Communal Boundaries: The Problems with Amulets in Chrysostom, Adv. Iud. 8, and Augustine, In Io. tra. 7 in HENOCH, vol. 38, pp. 227-246 (ISSN 0393-6805)
- ARCA card: 10278/3730095
2017 Journal Article Sanzo J.E.; Zelyck L.R. The text and function of P. Berol. 11710 revisited in JOURNAL OF THEOLOGICAL STUDIES, vol. 68, pp. 72-92 (ISSN 0022-5185)
DOI - ARCA card: 10278/3725273
2017 Book Article Joseph Sanzo; Flavia Ruani Introduction , Dangerous Books: Scribal Activity and Religious Boundaries in Late Antiquity and Beyond, Henoch: Historical and Textual Studies in Ancient and Medieval Judaism and Christianity, vol. Henoch 38.2, pp. 195-200
- ARCA card: 10278/3730094
2016 Journal Article Sanzo J.E. Wrapped up in the Bible: The Multifaceted Ritual on a Late Antique Amulet (P. Oxy. VIII 1077) in JOURNAL OF EARLY CHRISTIAN STUDIES, vol. 24, pp. 569-597 (ISSN 1067-6341)
DOI - ARCA card: 10278/3725271
2016 Entry in dictionary/encyclopedia Sanzo, Joseph Emanuel Frazer, Sir James George (1854–1941) , Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism, Routledge (ISBN 9781135000356)
DOI - ARCA card: 10278/3725281
2016 Entry in dictionary/encyclopedia Joseph Sanzo Renan, Ernest (1823–1892) in Stephen Ross, Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism, Routledge (ISBN 9781135000356)
DOI - ARCA card: 10278/3725280
2015 Journal Article Boustan R.; Dieleman J.; Sanzo J.E. Introduction: Authoritative Traditions and Ritual Power in the Ancient World in ARCHIV FÜR RELIGIONSGESCHICHTE, vol. 16, pp. 3-9 (ISSN 1436-3038)
DOI - ARCA card: 10278/3725269
2015 Journal Article Sanzo J.E. The Innovative Use of Biblical Traditions for Ritual Power: The Crucifixion of Jesus on a Coptic Exorcistic Spell (Brit. Lib. Or. 6796[4], 6796) as a Test Case in ARCHIV FÜR RELIGIONSGESCHICHTE, vol. 16, pp. 67-98 (ISSN 1436-3038)
DOI - ARCA card: 10278/3725268
2014 Scientific monograph or treatise Joseph Sanzo Scriptural Incipits on Amulets from Late Antique Egypt: Text, Typology, and Theory , Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck (ISBN 978-3-16-152965-8)
- URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3725277
2014 Review in magazine sanzo (review of) Beth M. Sheppard, The Craft of History and the Study of the New Testament (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2012) in REVIEW OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE, vol. 06/2014 (ISSN 1099-0321)
- ARCA card: 10278/3730116
2014 Book Article Sanzo; Ra'anan Boustan Jewish Culture and Society in a Christianizing Empire , The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Attila, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp. 358-375
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3730131
2014 Book Article Joseph sanzo ‘For our Lord was pursued by the Jews…’: The (Ab)Use of the Motif of ‘Jewish’ Violence against Jesus on a Greek Amulet (P. Heid. 1101) in David Matson and K.C. Richardson, One in Christ Jesus: Essays on Early Christianity and “All that Jazz,” in Honor of S. Scott Bartchy, Wipf and Stock Publishers, pp. 86-98
- URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3725282
2013 Review in magazine Sanzo (review of) Andrew T. Wilburn, Materia Magica: The Archaeology of Magic in Egypt, Spain and Cyprus (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013) in THE BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PAPYROLOGISTS, vol. 50, pp. 353-358 (ISSN 1938-6958)
- ARCA card: 10278/3730129
2013 Review in magazine Sanzo (review of) Gideon Bohak, Yuval Harari, and Shaul Shaked, eds., Continuity and Innovation in the Magical Tradition (Leiden: Brill, 2011) in PRETERNATURE, vol. 2, pp. 105-112 (ISSN 2161-2196)
- ARCA card: 10278/3730130
2012 Journal Article Joseph Sanzo Brit. Lib. Or. 4919(2): An Unpublished Coptic Amulet in the British Library in ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR PAPYROLOGIE UND EPIGRAPHIK, vol. 183, pp. 98-100 (ISSN 0084-5388)
- URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3725267
2008 Journal Article Joseph E. Sanzo Canonical Power: A 'Tactical' Approach to the Use of the Christian Canon in P. Berol. 954 in Saint Shenouda Coptic Quarterly, vol. 4, pp. 28-45
- ARCA card: 10278/3730096
2008 Review in magazine sanzo (review of) The Secret Gospel of Mark: Find or Forgery? Panel Discussion in Saint Shenouda Coptic Quarterly, vol. 4, pp. 8-14
- ARCA card: 10278/3730133

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