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Footnotes

1. For Christian amulets in general, see Theodore de Bruyn, “Christian Amulets—A Bit of Old, a Bit of New,” BAR, September/October 2018.

2. For incipit amulets, see Joseph E. Sanzo, “Ancient Amulets with Incipits: The Blurred Line Between Magic and Religion,” Bible History Daily (blog), October 2, 2015.

Endnotes

1. Marvin Meyer and Richard Smith, Ancient Christian Magic (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1999), no. 9.

2. For a detailed treatment, see my book Contested Cures: Identity and Ritual Healing in Roman and Late Antique Palestine (Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2022).