Recent Publications
Cynthia J. Bannon
Gardens and Neighbors: Private Water Rights in Roman Italy. University of Michigan Press (in press)
The Brothers of Romulus: Fraternal Pietas in Roman Law, Literature, and Society. Princeton University Press (1997)
Current Projects
Sarah Bassett
The Urban Image of Late Antique Constantinople (Cambridge University Press, 2004)
The Late Antique Image of Menander,” Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 48(2008): 201-25.
“Style and Meaning in the Imperiall Panels at San Vitale” Artibus et Historiae 57(2208): 49-57.
“‘Excellent offerings’: the Lausos Collection in Constantinople,” Art Bulletin, 72(2000): 6-2.
“Historiae custos: sculpture and tradition in the Baths of Zeuxippos, “American Journal of Archaeology, 100(1996) 491-506.
“Antiquities in the Hippodrome of Constantinople, ” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 45(1992) 82-9
David Brakke
The Gnostics: Myth, Ritual, and Diversity in Early Christianity. (Cambridge, 2010)
Religion and the Self in Antiquity. Co-Editor with Michael L. Satlow and Steve Weitzman. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005
Demons and the Making of the Monk: Spiritual Combat in Early Christianity. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006
Beyond “Reception”: Mutual Influences between Antique Religion, Judaism, and Early Christianity. Co-Editor with Andres-Christian Jacobsen and Jörg Ulrich. Early Christianity in the Context of Antiquity 1. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2006.
Introduction to Christianity. Co-Author with Mary Jo Weaver. 4th ed. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth/Cengage Learning, 2009 (sic)
“Making Public the Monastic Life: Reading the Self in Evagrius Ponticus’ Talking Back.” In Religion and the Self in Late Antiquity (see above), 222-233.
“The Lady Appears: Materializations of ‘Woman’ in Early Monastic Literature.” In The Cultural Turn in the Late Antique Studies: Asceticism, Gender, and Historiography, 25-39. Ed. Dale B. Martin and Patricia Cox Miller. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005
“Research and Publications in Egyptian Monasticism 2000-2004.” In Huitième congrès international d’études coptes (Paris 2004): I. Bilans et perspectives 2000-2004, 111-26. Ed. Anne Boud’hors and Denyse Vaillancourt. Cahiers de la Bibliothèque copte 15. Paris: De Boccard, 2006.
“Origins and Authenticity: Studying the Reception of Greek and Roman Spiritual Traditions in Early Christian Monasticism.” In Beyond “Reception”: Mutual Influences between Antique Religion, Judaism, and Early Christianity (see above), 175-89.
“Self-Differentiation among Christian Groups: The Gnostics and their Opponents.” In Origins to Constantine, vol. 1 of The Cambridge History of Christianity, 245-60. Ed. Margaret M. Mitchell and Frances M. Young. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2006.
“Shenoute, Weber, and the Monastic Prophet: Ancient and Modern Articulations of Ascetic Authority.” In Foundations of Power and Conflicts of Authority in Late-Antique Monasticism: Proceedings of the International Seminar, Turin, December 2-4, 2004, 47-73. Ed. Alberto Camplani and Giovanni Filoramo. Orientalia Christiana Analecta 157. Leuven: Peeters, 2007.
“The East (2): Egypt and Palestine.” In Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies, 344-63. Ed. Susan Ashbrook Harvey and David G. Hunter. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).
“Care for the Poor, Fear of Poverty, and Love of Money: Evagrius Ponticus on the Monk’s Economic Vulnerability.” In Wealth and Poverty in Early Christianity, 76-87. Ed. Susan Holman. (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic, 2008).
“From Temple to Cell, From Gods to Demons: Pagan Temples in the Monastic Topography of Fourth-Century Egypt.” In From Temple to Church: Destruction and Renewal of Local Cultic Topography in Late Antiquity, 91-112. Ed. Johannes Hahn, Stephen Emmel, and Ulrich Gotter. Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 163. (Leiden: Brill, 2008).
Current Projects
Translation: Evagrius of Pontus. Talking Back: A Monastic Handbook for Combatting Demons. Cistercian Studies 229. Kalamazoo, Mich.: Cistercian Publishers, in press (2009).
Critical edition and translation: Shenoute, Discourses, Volume 5.
Jamsheed Choksy
Evil, Good, and Gender: Facets of the Feminine in Zoroastrian Religious History. (New York: Peter Lang Publishers, 2002)
Conflict and Cooperation: Zoroastrian Subalterns and Muslim Elites in Medieval Iranian Society. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997)
Purity and Pollution in Zoroastrianism: Triumph over Evil. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1989)
Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender, 4 vols. (New York: Macmillan), Associate Editor.
“Praise and Piety: Niyāyišns and Yašts in the History of Zoroastrian Praxis,” with Firoze M. Kotwal, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (London) 68: 215–252.
“Altars, Precincts, and Temples: Medieval and Modern Zoroastrian Praxis,” Iran: Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies 44: 327–346.
“Despite Shāhs and Mollās: Minority Sociopolitics in Premodern and Modern Iran,” Journal of Asian History 40, 2: 129–184
“Iranians and Indians on the Shores of Serendib (Sri Lanka),” in Parsis in India and the Diaspora, ed. J. Hinnells and A. Williams (London: Routledge, 2007), pp. 181–210.
“Reassessing the Material Contexts of Ritual Fires in Ancient Iran,” Iranica Antiqua 42 (2007): 229–269
“Iranian Apocalypticism and Eschatology: Grappling with Change,” Journal of the K. R. Cama Oriental Institute 69, in press.
“Aging, Death, and the Afterlife in Zoroastrianism,” in How Different Religions View Death and Afterlife, 3rd ed., ed. C. J. Johnson and M. G. McGee (Philadelphia: Charles Press), in press.
Current Projects
A History of Iranian Religions (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press).
An Introduction to Zoroastrianism: History, Doctrines, Mythology, Rites, and Communities (New Haven: Yale University Press).
A Historical Dictionary of Zoroastrianism (Lanham: Scarecrow Press/Rowman and Littlefield).
“Minority Identity and Community amidst Muslim and Hindu Majorities in Iran and India,” in Negotiating Identity amongst the Religious Minorities of Asia, ed. M. A. Ehrlich (Leiden: E. J. Brill).
“Jewish Relations with Zoroastrians,” Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World(Leiden: E. J. Brill).
“History of Zoroastrians and Zoroastrianism from the Advent of Islam to the Present,” “History of Zoroastrians and Zoroastrianism in South Asia,” “Kusti/Koshti,” “Prayers in Zoroastrianism,” “Stum Ritual,” Encyclopaedia Iranica (New York: Bibliotheca Persica Press).
Prophets, Poets, Kings, and Clerics: A History of Iran.
“Iranian Apocalypticism and Eschatology: Grappling with Change.”
“Tokens, Tablets, and the Early History of Documents.”
Matthew Christ
The Bad Citizen in Classical Athens. Cambridge University Press, 2006 (hb); 2008 (pb; and hb [reprint]).
The Litigious Athenian. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
Deborah Deliyannis
Ravenna in Late Antiquity. Cambridge University Press (2010).
”The Mausoleum of Theoderic and the Seven Wonders of the World,”
Journal of Late Antiquity 3.2 (2010): 365-385.
William Hansen
Translation and Commentary, Anonymous: Life of Aesop. Bryn Mawr Greek Commentaries. (Bryn Mawr: Bryn Mawr College, 2008).
“Prometheus and Loki: The Myth of the Fettered God and his Kin,” Classica et Mediaevalia 58 (2007) 65-117.
“Sisyphus.” In Enzyklopädie des Märchens, 12:757-760. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2007.
“Stärkste Dinge (AaTh/ATU 2031, 2031 A-C).” In Enzyklopädie des Märchens, 12:1188-1194. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2007.
Current Projects
Classical Mythology: A Guide to the Mythical World of the Greeks and Romans. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. (corrected, paperback edition of Handbook of Classical Mythology, 2004.)
J. Albert Harrill
Slaves in the New Testament: Literary, Social, and Moral Dimensions. (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2006). cloth and paper.
The Manumission of Slaves in Early Christianity. Hermeneutische Untersuchungen zur Theologie 32. Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1995 (cloth); 1998 (paper)
“Divine Judgment against Ananias and Sapphira (Acts 5:1–11): A Stock Scene of Perjury and Death.” Journal of Biblical Literature 130 (2011): in press.
“Paul and Empire: Studying Roman Identity after the Cultural Turn.” Early Christianity 2 (2011): in press.
“The Psychology of Slaves in the Gospel Parables: A Case Study in Social History.” Biblische Zeitschrift 55 (2011): 63–74
“Paul and the Slave Self.” in Religion and the Self in Antiquity. Edited by David Brakke, Steven Weitzman, and Michael Satlow. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005, 51-69.
“The Metaphor of Slavery in the Writings of Tertullian.” Studia Patristica 42 (2006): 385–90.
“Servile Functionaries or Priestly Leaders? Roman Domestic Religion, Narrative Intertextuality, and Pliny’s Reference to Slave Christian Ministrae (Ep. 10,96,8)”. Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 97 (2006): 111–30.
“The Slave Still Appears: A Historiographical Response to Jennifer Glancy.” Biblical Interpretation 15 (2007): 212–21.
“Demas.” Page 90 in The New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible: Volume 2, D–H. Edited by Katherine Doob Sakenfeld et al. (Nashville, Tenn.: Abingdon Press, 2007).
“Cannibalistic Language in the Fourth Gospel and Greco-Roman Polemics of Factionalism (John 6:52–66).” Journal of Biblical Literature 127 (2008): 133–58.
Current Projects
“Stoic Conflagration Physics and the Eschatological Destruction of ‘the Ignorant and Unstable’ in 2 Peter.” To appear in Stoicism in Early Christianity (edited by Tuomas Rasimus, Ismo Dunderberg, and Troels Engberg-Pedersen).
The Apostle Paul: His Life in the Context of the Roman World. Book contract under Cambridge University Press.
J. Albert Harrill and Clare K. Rothschild (eds.). Early Christian Anthropology. Edited Volume.
Editorial Board, Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries.
Margaretha Kramer-Hajos
Beyond the Palace: Mycenaean East Lokris (British Archaeological Reports International Series 1781), Oxford 2008.
“The Bronze Age Site of Mitrou in East Lokris: Finds from the 1988-1989 Surface Survey,” Hesperia 77(2), 2008, 163-250 (co-authored with K. O’Neill).
“A man from Halai? Problems with ‘a-ra-o’ in the Theban Linear B Tablets,” Kadmos 45, 2006, 85-92.
Eleanor Leach
Vergil’s Eclogues: Landscapes of Experience. Ithaca, New York, 1974.
The Rhetoric of Space: Literary and Artistic Representations of Landscape in Republican and Augustan Rome. Princeton, 1988.
The Social Life of Painting in Ancient Rome and on the Bay of Naples. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
“Cicero’s Pro Sestio: Spectacle and Performance,” in J. Hallett and S. Dickison, ed. Rome and her Monuments: Essays on the City and Literature of Rome in Honor of Katherine A Geffcken. Illinois, 2000, 369-397.
“Gendering Clodius,” Classical World 94 (2001) 335-359.
“Narrative Space and the Viewer in Philostratus’ Eikones,” Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archaeologischen Instituts Römische Abteilung 107 (2000) 237-252.
“Otium as Luxuria in the Status Economy of Pliny’s Letters,” in Re-Imagining Pliny the Younger, Roy Gibson and Ruth Morello, ed. Arethusa 36 (2003) 147-166.
“Constructing Identity: Q. Haterius and C. Trimalchio Decorate their Tombs,” in E.V. D’Ambra and Guy Metraux, eds., The Art of Citizens, Soldiers and Freedmen in the Roman World, Archeo Press, 2006, 1-18.
“An gravius aliquid scribam: Roman seniores write to Iuniores,” TAPA 137 (2006) 247-267.
“Claudia Quinta (pro Caelio 34) and an altar to Magna Mater,” Dictynna 4 (2007) 1-14.
Betty Rose Nagle
The Poetics of Exile: Program and Polemic in the Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto of Ovid. Collection Latomus 170. Brussels, 1980.
Ovid’s Fasti: Roman Holidays, trans. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.
Statius’ Silvae, trans. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004.
Jonathon Ready
Figurative Revisions: Similes in Homeric Epic. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming
“Why Odysseus Strings his Bow,” Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies. Forthcoming.
“The Comparative Spectrum in Homer,” American Journal of Philology 129.4 (2008): 453-496.
“Toil and Trouble: The Acquisition of Spoils in the Iliad,” Transactions of the American Philological Association 137.1 (2007): 3-43.
“Homer, Hesiod, and the Epic Tradition,” in The Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece,ed. H. A. Shapiro (2007): 111-140.
Current Projects
Comparative Perspectives on the Homeric Simile. In preparation.
Eric Robinson
Ancient Greek Democracy: Readings and Sources (Blackwell Publishing, Malden & Oxford, 2003).
Oikistes: Studies in Constitutions, Colonies, and Military Power in the Ancient World Offered in Honor of A. J. Graham (Brill, Leiden, 2002). [Co-editor with Vanessa Gorman]
The First Democracies: Early Popular Government Outside Athens. Historia-Einzelschrift 107 (Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart, 1997).
Democracy Beyond Athens: Popular Government in the Greek Classical Age. (Cambridge, 2011)
“Ethnicity and Democracy in the Peloponnese, 401-362 BC,” in P. Funke and N. Luraghi, eds. The Politics of Ethnicity (Center for Hellenic Studies, 2009), 135-47.
“The Sophists and Democracy Beyond Athens,” Rhetorica 25.1 (2007), 109-22.
“Thucydides and Democratic Peace,” in Journal of Military Ethics 5.4 (2006), 243-53.
“American Empire? Ancient Reflections on Modern American Power,” Classical World 99.1 (2005), 35-50.
Kevin Tsai
“Translating Chinese Poetry with a Forked Tongue,” forthcoming in the Yearbook of Comparative Literature.
“Hellish Love: Genre in Claudian’s De raptu Proserpinae [On the rape of Persephone],” Helios 34(2007): 37-68.
“Ritual and Gender in the ‘Tale of Li Wa’,” Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 26(2004): 99-127.
Translations of poems by Li Qingzhao (1084 – c. 1151) in Perihelion 2.8(2003) and in Fields 77(2007).
Julie Van Voorhis
Aphrodisias II: Roman Portrait Sculpture from Aphrodisias, written in collaboration with S. Dillon and C. H. Hallett, and J. Lenaghan, and R. R. R. Smith (Mainz am Rhein: Philipp von Zabern, 2006).
Aphrodisias IV: The Sculptor’s Workshop at Aphrodisias (Mainz am Rhein: Philipp von Zabern, in press)
“Two Portrait Statues of Boxers and the Culture of Athletics at Aphrodisias in the Third Century C.E.” in Aphrodisias Papers 4, edited by R. R. R. Smith and Christopher Ratté. (Portsmouth, RI: Journal of Roman Archaeology, forthcoming 2008).
“Apprentices’ Pieces and the Training of Sculptors at Aphrodisias,” Journal of Roman Archaeology 11 (1998) 175-192.
Steve Vinson
Demotic Graffiti in the Valley of the Kings (Eugene Cruz-Uribe and Jacqueline Jay, co-authors), in preparation, to appear as a Supplément aux Annales du Service des Antiquités de l’Égypte (Cairo: IFAO press, projected for 2011).
The Craft of a Good Scribe: Narrative and Meaning in the ‘First Tale of Setne Khaemwas,’ in preparation, to appear in the series Ancient Narrative Supplementum (Groningen: Barkhuis, projected for 2011).
The Nile Boatman at Work, Münchner Ägyptologische Studien 48 (Munich: von Zabern, 1998).
Egyptian Boats and Ships, Shire Egyptology Series 20 (Princes Risborough, UK: Shire Publications, 1994).
Journal Articles
“The Names ‘Naneferkaptah,’ ‘Ihweret’ and ‘Tabubue’ in the ‘First Tale of Setne Khaemwas,’ ” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 68.4 (2009): 283-303.
“They-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed: Arsake, Rhadopis and Tabubue; Ihweret and Charikleia,” Comparative Literature Studies 45.3 (2008): 289-315.
“The Demotic ‘Regnal Year’ Group as Hsb ‘Reckoning,’” Enchoria 30 (2006/07): 151-154.
“Two Demotic Ostraca from the Valley of the Kings” (Eugene Cruz-Uribe, co-author) Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 42 (2005/06): 113-117.
“The Accent’s on Evil: Ancient Egyptian ‘Melodrama’ and the Problem of Genre,” Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 41 (2004): 33-54.
“State of the Art? The International Handbook of Underwater Archaeology,” Reviews in Anthropology 33.1 (2004): 95-109.
“Notes on Two Old Egyptian Inscriptions. I: The Palermo Stone and the Royal Ship of Cheops. II: An Early Use of the Hand-With-Egg Hieroglyph,” Göttinger Miszellen 190 (2002): 89-97.
John Walbridge
God and Logic in Islam: The Caliphate of Reason. (Cambridge, 2009).
“The Devotional and Occult Works of Suhrawardi the Illuminationist,” Israq 2 (Moscow, forthcoming 2011),
Edward J. Watts
City and School in Late Antique Athens and Alexandria. (Berkeley 2006).
Riot in Alexandria: Historical Debate in Pagan and Christian Communities. (Berkeley, 2010).
From the Tetrarchs to the Theodosians: Essays on Later Roman History and Culture, 284-450 CE (Cambridge, 2010) (Co-edited with C. Sogno and S. McGill).
Shifting Cultural Frontiers in Late Antiquity, (Aldershot, forthcoming). (co-edited with David Brakke and Deborah Deliyannis).
“Doctrine, Anecdote, and Action: Reconsidering the Social History of the Last Platonists (c. 430-c. 550 CE),” Classical Philology, forthcoming.
“Speaking, Thinking, and Socializing: Education in Late Antiquity,” in The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity, ed. S. Johnson, forthcoming.
“Three Generations of Christian Philosophical Biography,” in From the Tetrarchs to the Theodosians: Essays on Later Roman History and Culture, 284-450 CE, eds. S. McGill, C. Sogno, and E. Watts, (Cambridge, 2010), pp. 117-33.
“The Enduring Legacy of the Iatrosophist Gessius,” Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 49 (2009), pp. 113-134.
“Interpreting Catastrophe: Disasters in the historical works of Pseudo-Joshua the Stylite, Socrates, Philostorgius, and Timothy Aelurus,” Journal of Late Antiquity 2.1 (2009), pp. 79-98.
“Creating the Academy: Historical Discourse and the Shape of Community in the Old Academy,” Journal of Hellenic Studies 127 (2007), pp. 106-22.
“Creating the Ascetic and Sophistic Mélange: Zacharias Scholasticus and the intellectual influence of Aeneas of Gaza and John Rufus,” ARAM 18-9 (2006-7), pp. 153-64.
“The Murder of Hypatia: Acceptable or Unacceptable Violence,” in Violence in Antiquity, ed. H. A. Drake, (Ashgate, 2006), pp. 333-42.
“Winning the Intracommunal Dialogues: Zacharias Scholasticus’ Life of Severus,” Journal of Early Christian Studies 13.4 (2005), pp. 437-65.
“Where to Live the Philosophical Life in the Sixth Century: Damascius, Simplicius, and the Return from Persia,” Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 45 (2005), pp. 285-315.
“Orality and Communal Identity in Eunapius’ Lives of the Sophists and Philosophers,” Byzantion 75 (2005), pp. 334-61.
“The Student Self in Late Antiquity,” in Religion and the Self in Antiquity, eds. David Brakke et al., (Bloomington, IN, 2005), pp. 234-52.
