Joseph Emanuel SANZO
- Position
- Associate Professor
- Telephone
- 041 234 8831
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joseph.sanzo@unive.it
- Academic discipline
- History of Religions [HIST-04/A]
- Website
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https://www.unive.it/people/joseph.sanzo (personal record)
- Office
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Department of Asian and North African Studies
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.dsaam
Where: Ca' Cappello
Office hours
2nd semester, 2025/2026
- Office hours will take place on Mondays at 9:45pm–11:45pm in my office in Ca'Cappello. Please contact me via email if you have any questions or concerns about this matter (joseph.sanzo@unive.it).
Teaching activity current year
Teaching activity previous years
Activities and research skills
- Academic discipline
- Storia delle religioni [HIST-04/A]
- Settore Scientifico Disciplinare (SSD) affine
- STORIA DELLE RELIGIONI [M-STO/06]
- Geographic areas in which the research experience mainly applies
- Internazionale: Medio Oriente
- Known languages
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English
(scritto: madrelingua parlato: madrelingua)
Italiano (scritto: intermedio parlato: intermedio)
Deutch (scritto: intermedio parlato: base)
- Participation in editorial boards of scientific journals/book series
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Editorial Board for Advances in the History of Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion series (Thrivent Publishers)
Advisory Board for Henoch: Historical and Textual Studies on Ancient and Medieval Judaism and Christianity
- Participation as referees of national and international research projects
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Expert Evaluator, VQR (Valutazione della Qualità della Ricerca), MIUR (Italy) 2015-19
Expert Evaluator, AEI State Research Agency (Spain)
Expert Evaluator, Australian Research Council
- Main departmental research areas and fields
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Area:
Religioni e filosofie Linea:
Religioni e filosofie - Ebraismo
Area: Religioni e filosofie Linea: Religioni e filosofie – Oriente Cristiano
Area: Religioni e filosofie
Area: Storia e Antropologia Linea: Storia del cristianesimo
- Indagine sulle fonti magiche paleocristiane per illuminare lo studio della delimitazione dei confini paleocristiani (Investigation of early Christian magical sources to illuminate the study of early Christian boundary demarcation)
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- SSD:
- M-STO/06
- Other members of the research group:
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Alessia BELLUSCI
Paolo LUCCA
- Center for the Study of Lived Religion
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- Funding body:
- MIUR
- Type:
- Bando FARE - Attrazione di eccellenza e supporto ERC
- Role in the project:
- LD
- Starting date:
- Year: 2022 Length in months: 48
- Early Jewish and Christian Magical Traditions in Comparison and Contact
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- Funding body:
- European Research Council, Horizon 2020
- Type:
- H2020 - Excellence Science - ERC
- Role in the project:
- LD
- Sito di progetto:
- https://pric.unive.it/projects/ejcm/home
- Starting date:
- Year: 2020 Length in months: 60
Publication highlights
sanzo Ritual Boundaries: Magic and Differentiation in Late Antique Christianity , Oakland, CA, University of California Press (ISBN 9780520399181; 0520399188)
DOI - URL correlato 2024,
Scientific monograph or treatise - ARCA card: 10278/5045340
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 2021,
Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/3743867
Joseph Sanzo (Review of) Timo Nisula, Anni Maria Laato, and Pablo Irizar, eds. Religious Polemics and Encounters in Late Antiquity: Boundaries, Conversions, and Persuasion; Studies on the Children of Abraham 8; Leiden: Brill, 2021. in REVIEW OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE, vol. 05/2026, pp. 1-5 (ISSN 1099-0046)
- URL correlato 2026,
Review in magazine - ARCA card: 10278/5124109
Joseph Sanzo Reassessing the ‘Christian’ in Christian Magic in EPHEMERIDES THEOLOGICAE LOVANIENSES, vol. 101, pp. 517-530 (ISSN 0013-9513)
2025,
Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5115546
Sanzo (review of) Beerden, Kim Fritz Naerebout, eds. Coping with Versnel: A Roundtable on Religion and Magic in Honour of the 80th birthday of Henk S. Versnel (Religions in the Graeco-Roman world, 200; Leiden: Brill, 2023) in BRYN MAWR CLASSICAL REVIEW, vol. 2025 (ISSN 1063-2948)
- URL correlato 2025,
Review in magazine - ARCA card: 10278/5115567