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Religion 205 Ancient Greek Religion
Religion 206 Greco-Roman Religion
Religion 305/WSP 315 Greek Goddesses
Religion 602 Gnosticism
Religion 604 Hellenism and Christianity
Religion 605 Religion and the Body in Late Antiquity
Religion 612 Parables
Religion 640 Philosophical Foundations of Religion
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| Education: |
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1979
Field: Religion in Late Antiquity
M.A., University of Chicago, 1972
Field: History of Christianity
B.A., Mary Washington College of Univ. of Virginia, 1969
Field: History (Cum Laude)
Year of Special Study, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, 1969-70
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| Career: |
Bishop W. Earl Ledden Professor, Department of Religion, Syracuse University, 1977-present. |
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Publications:
Books:
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The Corporeal Imagination: Signifying the Holy in Late Ancient Christianity (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009). |
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Women
in Early Christianity: Translations from Greek Texts,
edited by Patricia Cox Miller (Washington, D. C.: The Catholic
University of America Press, 2005)
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Biography
in Late Antiquity: A Quest
for the Holy Man
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983) |
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Dreams
in Late Antiquity: Studies in the Imagination of
a Culture (Princeton: Princeton University Press,
1994; paperback ed., 1998; translations into Greek, Spanish,
Italian and Turkish in progress) |
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The
Poetry of Thought in Late Antiquity: Essays
on Imagination and Religion (Hampshire: Ashgate
Publishing, Ltd, 2001) |
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The
Cultural Turn in Late Ancient Studies: Gender, Asceticism, and
Historiography, ed. Dale B. Martin and Patricia
Cox Miller (Durham: Duke University Press, 2005) |
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Book Chapters:
- Adam, Eve, and the Elephants: Asceticism and Animality in Late Ancient Christianity,” forthcoming in Ascetic Culture: Essays in Honor of Philip Rousseau, ed. Blake Leyerle and Robin Darling Young (University of Notre Dame Press, 2010)
- “Subtle Embodiments: Imagining the Holy in Late Antiquity,” in Apophatic Bodies: Infinity, Ethics, and Incarnation, Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquium 6, ed. Catherine Keller and Christopher Boesel (New York: Fordham University Press, 2009), 45-58, 377-81
- “’Intricate Evasions of As’: History, Imagination, and Saint Basil’s Crab,” in Disturbances in the Field: Essays in Honor of David L. Miller, ed. Christine Downing (New Orleans: Spring Journal Books, 2006), 179-91.
- “Asceticism: Visual Implications,” in Art, Archaeology, and Architecture of Early Christianity, ed. Paul Corby Finney, (Eerdmans)
- “Strategies of Representation in Collective Biography: Constructing the Subject as Holy,” in Greek Biography and Panegyrics in Late Antiquity, eds. Tomas Hägg and Philip Rousseau (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), pp. 209-54
- "Dreaming the Body: An Aesthetics of Asceticism," in Asceticism, ed. Vincent Wimbush (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), pp.281-300.
- "Poetic Words, Abysmal Words: Reflections on Origen's Hermeneutics," in Origin of Alexandria: His World and Legacy, ed. by Charles Kannengiesser and William L. Petersen (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1988), pp.165-178.
- "`Plenty Sleeps There': The Myth of Eros and Psyche in Plotinus and Gnosticism," in Neoplatonism and Gnosticism, ed. by Richard T. Wallis and Jay Bregman (Stony Brook: State University of New York Press, 1992), pp.223-238.
Journal Articles:
- “On the Edge of Self and Other: Holy Bodies in Late Antiquity,” Journal of Early Christian Studies 17 (June, 2009)
- "Relics,
Rhetoric, and Mental Spectacles," in Seeing the Invisible
in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Utrecht Studies
in Medieval Literacy 14, ed. Giselle de Nie, Karl F. Morrison,
and Marco Mostert (Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2005), pp. 25-52.
- "Shifting
Selves in Late Antiquity," in Religion and the Self in
Antiquity, ed. David Brakke, Michael L. Satlow, and Steven
Weitzman (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005), pp. 15-39.
- "Visceral
Seeing: The Holy Body in Late Ancient Christianity," Journal
of Early Christian Studies 12 (2004):391-411
- "Is There
a Harlot in this Text?: Hagiography and the Grotesque,"
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 33.3 (Fall,
2003):419-36
- “'The Little
Blue Flower is Red': Relics and the Poetizing of the Body,”
Journal of Early Christian Studies 8 (2000):213-36
- “`Differential
Networks': Relics and Other Fragments in Late Antiquity,” Journal
of Early Christian Studies 6 (1998):113-38
- “Jerome's
Centaur: A Hyper-Icon of the Desert,” Journal of Early Christian
Studies 4 (1996):209-33.
- "Desert Ascetism
and `The Body from Nowhere'," Journal of Early Christian Studies
2 (1994): 137-153.
- "The Blazing
Body: Ascetic Desire in Jerome's Letter to Eustochium,"
Journal of Early Christian Studies 1 (1993): 21-45.
- "The Devil's
Gateway: An Eros of Difference in the Dreams of Perpetua,"
Dreaming 2 (1992):45-63.
- "Re-imagining
the Self in Dreams," Continuum 1 (1991):35-53.
- "Dreams in
Patristic Literature: Divine Sense or Pagan Nonsense?,"
Studia Patristica 18 (1989):185-189.
- "`Words With
An Alien Voice': Gnostics, Scripture, and Canon," Journal
of the American Academy of Religion LVII (Fall, 1989):459-83.
- "`All the
Words Were Frightful': Salvation by Dreams in the Shepherd of
Hermas," Vigiliae Christianae 42 (1988): 327-338.
- "`A Dubious
Twilight': Reflections on Dreams in Patristic Literature,"
Church History 55 (June, 1986): 153-164.
- "Pleasure
of the Text, Text of Pleasure: Eros and Language in Origen's
Commentary on the Song of Songs," Journal of the American
Academy of Religion LIV (Summer, 1986): 241-253.
- "In Praise
of Nonsense," in World Spirituality , Vol. 15: Classical
Mediterranean Spirituality , ed. by A. Hilary Armstrong (New
York: Crossroads/Continuum Press, 1986), pp.481-505.
- "Origen and
the Bestial Imagination," in Origeniana Tertia, ed. by
R.P.C. Hanson and Henri Crouzel (Rome: Edizioni dell'ateneo,
s.p.a., 1984), pp.48-51.
- "Origen and
the Witch of Endor: Toward an Iconoclastic Typology," Anglican
Theological Review 66 (April, 1984): 137-147.
- "The Physiologus:
A Poiesis of Nature," Church History 52 (December 1983):
433-443.
- "Origen on
the Bestial Soul: A Poetics of Nature," Vigiliae Christianae
36 (1982): 115-140.
- "`Adam Ate
From the Animal Tree': A Bestial Poetry of Soul," Dionysius
V (December 1981): 165-180.
- "`In My Father's
House Are Many Dwelling Places': ktisma in Origen's De principiis,"
Anglican Theological Review 62 (October 1980): 322-337.
- "Micropaedia,"
Encyclopaedia Britannica , 1974 (50 short articles in
the areas of Old Testament Apocrypha, New Testament Apocrypha,
and Gnosticism).
Review Essays
- "Antiquity for a Postmodern Age," Continuum 1 (1990): 209-212 (review-essay of P. Chuvin, The Last Pagans).
- Review-essay of The Goddess Obscured and Pagan Meditations, in Signs 13 (Summer, 1988): 866-869.
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