" In his sixth satire, Juvenal deplores the pastimes of Roman women, foremost of which is
superstition. Speculating about how wives busy themselves while their husbands are away …

The era of the Roman Empire was distinguished by an explosion of images and texts in a
variety of media—metal, papyrus, mosaic, gemstone—all designed to protect, heal, or grant …

" In In Blood and Ashes: Curse Tablets and Binding Spells in Ancient Greece, Jessica
Lamont provides the first historical study of the development and dissemination of ritualized …

In this chapter, we establish a working method for evaluating the New Testament citations on
Greek amulets analyzed in Chapter 4. As we have seen, textual continuity is a sine qua non …

The utility of “magic” as an analytical category has been the subject of a robust debate within
the Humanities and Social Sciences over the past several decades. 1 This debate has …

In the conventional historical narrative, the medieval Middle East was composed of
autonomous religious traditions, each with distinct doctrines, rituals, and institutions. Outside …

Papyri and Zeitschrift f ü r Papyrologie und Epigraphik. So vast and daunting in fact has the
bibliography become that the primary author realised after a time that, if he was to have any …

This essay examines the trajectory of Jewish feminist theology from the 1970s to today. It
uses a synthetic, thematic approach, distilling concerns that appear across generically …

Examines women whose influence was positive, as well as those whose reputations were
more notoriousSupremely well researched from many different historical sourcesSuperbly …

From what the Ancient Greeks might have talked about in bed to women's health and the
intricacies of Greek marriage, Paul Chrystal shines a much-needed light on sex and …