Recent Publications
Cynthia J. Bannon
Publications
Gardens and Neighbors: Private Water Rights in Roman Itlay. University of Michigan Press (in press)
Current Projects
Concepts of Nature in Roman Law
Rhetoric of Roman Fish Farming
David Brakke
Publications
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
Monograph: The Gnostics: Myth, Ritual, and Diversity in Early Christianity
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
Publications
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.”
William Hansen
Publications
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.
“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).
“Divine Judgment against Ananias and Sapphira (Acts 5:1-11): A Scene of Perjury.” To appear in What the Gods Demand: Blood Sacrifice in Mediterranean Antiquity (edited by Jennifer Knust and Zsusz Varhelyi).
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.
Thomas J. Mathiesen
Publications
“Alypius,” “Aristides Quintilianus,” “Bacchius Geron,” “Favonius Eulogius,” “Gaudentius,” and “Ps.-Plutarch,” in Biographical Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists: The Greek Tradition and Its Many Heirs, ed. G. L. Irby-Massie and Paul T. Keyser (London: Routledge, 2008 [scheduled for November release]).
Current Projects
A history of medieval music theory.
“Music,” in The Classical Tradition, ed. Anthony Grafton, Glenn Most, and Salvatore Settis (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, forthcoming [2009?]).
Edward J. Watts
Publications
City and School in Late Antique Athens and Alexandria. Transformation of the Classical Heritage Series, (Vol. 41), University of California Press, 2006.
“Interpreting Catastrophe: Disasters in the historical works of Pseudo-Joshua the Stylite, Socrates, Philostorgius, and Timothy Aelurus,” Journal of Late Antiquity 1.2 (2008).
“John Rufus, Timothy Aelurus and the Fall of the Western Roman Empire,” in Romans, Barbarians, and the Transformation of the Roman World, ed. R. Mathisen and D. Shanzer, (Ashgate, 2008), forthcoming
“Creating the Academy: Historical Discourse and the Shape of Community in the Old Academy,” Journal of Hellenic Studies 127 (2007), 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), 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), 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), 285-315.
“Orality and Community Identity in Eunapius’ Lives of the Sophists and Philosophers,” Byzantion 75 (2005), 334-61.
“The Student Self in Late Antiquity,” in Religion and the Self in Antiquity, eds. David Brakke et al., (Bloomington, IN, 2005), 234-52.
“An Alexandrian Christian Response to Fifth-century Neoplatonic Influence,” in The Philosopher and Society in Late Antiquity: Essays in Honour of Peter Brown, ed. Andrew Smith, (Swansea, 2005), 215-229.
Riot in Alexandria: Historical Debate in Pagan and Christian Communities. (University of California Press, forthcoming).
The Later Roman Empire, 284-450: Politics, Society, Culture. A volume of articles co-edited with Scott McGill and Cristiana Sogno, (Cambridge University Press, currently under revision)
“Speaking, Thinking, and Socializing: Education in Late Antiquity,” in The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity, ed. S. Johnson, forthcoming.
“The Iatrosophist Gessius: Man and Symbol,” manuscript currently under review.
“Three Generations of Christian Philosophical Biography,” in The Later Roman Empire, 284-450: Politics, Society, Culture, eds. S. McGill, C. Sogno, and E. Watts, forthcoming.
