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Dr Sanzo said: “Although scholarly study of the early Jewish and Christian practices, rituals, and texts deemed “magical” has blossomed over the past few decades, this research has tended to be divided along disciplinary lines, with historians of Judaism studying Jewish magic and historians of Christianity studying Christian magic.

“This grant will allow an interdisciplinary team to address this scholarly gap by examining local and global features of the magical artefacts – and the literary traditions about magic – from late-antique Jewish and Christian communities. In particular, my project will focus on the similarities, differences, and contacts between these traditions in four central areas of their magical practices: biblical texts and traditions; sacred names and titles; the word-image-material relation; and references to illicit rituals.”

In this month's coin of the month, recent graduate Jameson Minto talks about how the coinage of the Achaean League conrtibuted to different types of identity in the Hellenistic world. Read more here.

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Read about the use of the Julian star under Mussolini in August's coin of the month, written by Daisy Ashton.

New article by Alison Cooley critiquing the idea of the Augustan Principate:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-roman-studies/article/from-the-augustan-principate-to-the-invention-of-the-age-of-augustus/547774A46869200583A73ACA4561DA31/share/d8c8c94f64adf37e0bdcf10399c579151dcc50a3