New tests of magic and ritual power. A new magical formulary / William Brashear and Roy Kotansky ; Two papyri with formulae for divination / David Jordan ; An early Christian gold lamella for headache / Roy Kotansky ; A seventh-century Coptic limestone in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Bodl. copt. inscr. 426) -- Definitions and theory. Great Scott! : thought and action one more time / Jonathan Z. Smith ; Theories of magic in antiquity / Fritz Graf ; The poetics of the magical charm : an essay on the power of words / H.S. Versnel ; Dynamics of ritual expertise in antiquity and beyond : towards a new taxonomy of "magicians" / David Frankfurter ; Fiat magia / C.A. Hoffman -- The ancient Near East. Dividing a god / Richard H. Beal ; Translating transfers in ancient Mesopotamia / JoAnn Scurlock ; Necromancy, fertility and the dark earth : the use of ritual pits in Hittite cult / Billie Jean Collins ; Canaanite magic vs. Israelite religion : Deuteronomy 18 and the taxonomy of taboo / Brian B. Schmidt -- Judaism. Secrecy and magic, publicity and Torah : unpacking a Talmudic tale / S. Daniel Breslauer ; Shamanic initiatory death and resurrection in the Hekhalot literature / James R. Davila ; Sacrificial themes in Jewish magic / Michael D. Swartz -- Greek and Roman antiquity. The ethnic origins of a Roman-era philtrokatadesmos (PGM IV 296-434) / Christopher A. Faraone ; Sacrifice in the Greek magical papyri / Sarah Iles Johnston ; Beans, fleawort, and the blood of a Hamadryas baboon : recipe ingredients in Greco-Roman magical materials / Lynn R. LiDonnici ; The witches' Thessaly / Oliver Phillips ; Speech acts and the stakes of Hellenism in late antiquity / Peter T. Struck -- Early Christianity and Islam. The prayer of Mary who dissolves chains in Coptic magic and religion / Marvin Meyer ; The magician and the heretic : the case of Simon Magus / Ayse Tuzlak ; Ancient execration magic in Coptic and Islamic Egypt / Nicole B. Hansen.