Power in the Name contributes to this growing body of work unbeholden to the myopic strictures of materialism and (more broadly) scientism by comparatively analyzing examples of humans changing their environment (e.g., healing or hurting others) by invoking powerful divine names.
Read MorePublication Preview | Narsai: Selected Sermons
As I learned more about the literature and history of my tradition, I found myself drawn to another important author, Narsai, and wondered whether someday a similarly accessible and instructive volume might be written about him. This project has been both a dream and an aspiration ever since.
Read MorePublication Preview: Hellenistic Jews and Consolatory Rhetoric
Robin Guthrie, Consolation (1969) Royal West of England Academy (RWA) copyright (©).
Robin Guthrie, Consolation (1969) Royal West of England Academy (RWA) copyright (©).
Whereas scholarship has tended to investigate this question by analyzing the development of Jewish apocalypticism, afterlife beliefs, and theodicy during the Hellenistic and early Roman periods, my analysis of consolatory rhetoric in Hellenistic Judaism offers a more comprehensive approach.
Read MorePaul the Apostle and Sanders the Critic
E. P. Sanders and His Impact on the Study of Second Temple Judaism
Annette Yoshiko Reed surveys the impact of E. P. Sanders upon the study of Second Temple Judaism.
Read MoreE.P. Sanders In Memoriam
Adele Reinhartz introduces a memorial panel for the late E.P. Sanders that occurred at the 2023 SBL Annual Meeting.
Read MorePursuing Joseph in Early Syriac Literature
Title and Incipit of a Syriac Joseph text included in British Library Additional 14,588, from the 9th or 10th century (Courtesy of author).
Title and Incipit of a Syriac Joseph text included in British Library Additional 14,588, from the 9th or 10th century (Courtesy of author).
These texts offered a window onto the literary creativity and inventiveness of the early Syriac tradition itself.
Read MoreTime and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism
By arguing that the rabbis used Roman holidays as a canvas on which to sort out their hybrid identity, Gribetz presents a model of Romanness commonly ignored and passed over by scholars of classics.
Read MoreAJR Conversations | The Rich and the Poor
AJR continues its #conversations series with an exchange between Daniel Caner and Erin Galgay Walsh on Caner’s book, The Rich and the Poor: Philanthropy and the Making of Christian Society in Early Byzantium
Read MoreAnti-Judaism, Meddlesomeness, and Epistemic Supersessionism in the Epistle to Diognetus
Scenes from the life of Jesus depicted on a fragment of an early Christian sarcophagus (4th century CE) Narbo Via Museum [Wikimedia].
Scenes from the life of Jesus depicted on a fragment of an early Christian sarcophagus (4th century CE) Narbo Via Museum [Wikimedia].
In this article, I want to contextualize the term polupragmosunē as it is used in the works of other writers in the Roman imperial period (particularly Plutarch, Apuleius, Lucian, and Tertullian) and demonstrate how polupragmosunē is a key component of Diognetus’s anti-Jewish rhetoric and construction of uniquely Christian knowledge.
Read MoreJewish and Christian Women in the Ancient Mediterranean
Jewish and Christian Women in the Ancient Mediterranean (Routledge, 2022) is the first ready-made classroom resource dedicated to the study of ancient Jewish and Christian women in their wider Mediterranean context.
Read MoreRitual and Religious Experience in Early Christianities
My research contributes participates in this ongoing conversation by exploring fresh methodological approaches to uncover the ways New Testament literature bears witness to ritual practices among early Christians.
Read MoreChristian Monastic Life in Early Islam
Path to Mt. Sinai [Image courtesy of the author].
Path to Mt. Sinai [Image courtesy of the author].
My book attempts to address this particular historical context and argues for not only a general religious tolerance in the early centuries of Islam, but for an overlapping of sectarian boundaries throughout the period.
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