- Bernard Bachrach
- Andrea M. Berlin
- Bruno Chaouat
- Michael Cherlin
- Gary B. Cohen
- Maria Damon
- Michelle Hamilton
- Benjamin M. Jacobs
- Alex Jassen
- Amy Kaminsky
- Ruth Mazo Karras
- Judith Katz
- Ronald R. Krebs
- Bernard M. Levinson
- Michael Lower
- Alex Lubet
- Leslie Morris
- Rick McCormick
- Karen Painter
- Riv-Ellen Prell
- Calvin Roetzel
- Andrew Scheil
- Renana Schneller
- Philip Sellew
- Eric D. Weitz
Associate Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Studies
Research Interests
- Religions in antiquity
- Early Christian literature and history
- Hellenistic Judaism
- Coptic language and literature
Selected Publications
“Jesus and the Voice from Beyond the Grave: Gospel of Thomas 42 in the Context of Funerary Epigraphy.” Forthcoming in Thomas Traditions in Antiquity, Brill, 2005.
“A Blessing for Reading the Apocalypse in the Paschal Liturgy.” Pp. 635-43 in: Coptic
Studies on the Threshold of a New Millennium (ed. Mat Immerzeel & Jacques van der Vliet; Leuven: Peeters Press, 2004).
“ Delphi: Temenos of Apollo.” Sixty slides with one-page commentaries in: The Cities of Paul, ed. Helmut Koester (CD-ROM; Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2004).
Pauline Conversations in Context: Essays in Honor of Calvin J. Roetzel. Co-Editor with Janice Capel Anderson and Claudia Setzer. London: Continuum, 2002.
“The Hundredfold Reward for Martyrs and Ascetics: Ps.-Cyprian, De centesima, sexagesima, tricesima.” Studia Patristica 36 (2001) 94-98.
“An Early Coptic Witness to the Dormitio Mariae at Yale: P.CtYBR inv. 1788 Revisited.” Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 37 (2000) 37-70 + pls. 2-4.
The Fabric of Early Christianity: Reflections in Honor of Helmut Koester by Fifty Years of
Harvard Students. Co-Editor (with James D. Smith III). Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock,
2006. 152 pp.
Courses
- Jesus in History
- Biblical and Patristic Greek
- Death and the Afterlife
- Greek and Hellenistic Religions
- The New Testament
- Roman Religion and Early Christianity
- Coptic