The winning article successfully brings the richness of late antique scholarship on religious communities into early medieval middle eastern conversations.

It is too early to know what emerita Ellen will be like, so for now, let us enjoy being in the presence of and reading the writings of medieval Ellen.

AJR is honored to host this review panel for Christine Luckritz Marquis’s Death of the Desert: Monastic Memory and the Loss of Egypt’s Golden Age (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press,…

Cambridge Core - Religion: General Interest - Martyrdom as Witness in Late Ancient Christian Literature

In Ovid’s Metamorphoses (1.750–2.365), the Roman poet gives an aetiology of blackness via the myth of Phaethon, whose failure to control his father’s solar chariot leads to the scorching of the earth....

She has made clear, across a welter of publications, that in the study of early Christianity, the first matter a scholar needs to investigate is the parameter of time: how is it working in the text…

This review panel features responses from a range of scholars working in Biblical Studies and late antiquity, originally shared at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the North American Patristics Society.

In Earthquakes and Gardens , Burrus pulls a few short lines from the very end of Jerome’s Life of Hilarion and applies immense analytical pressure to them. It is a mode of historiography as…

This book examines Greek and Roman pharmacology in its mercantile dimensions, studying the people who were involved in the trade, the places where they worked, and the consumers whom they tried to att...

We invite you to join us for the annual Don and Barbara Davis Colloquium on Christianity on Friday, October 24 in the OSU Thompson Library. This year's topic is "Christianity and Healing."Six speakers...

Position Title: Visiting Assistant Professor in Religion and Ethics Position Type: Full time Location: Coleman Hall Categories: Faculty Exempt Job Summary: Job Duties: The Department of Religious Stud...

Position Title: Visiting Assistant Professor in Religion and Ethics Position Type: Full time Location: Coleman Hall Categories: Faculty Exempt Job Summary: Job Duties: The Department of Religious Stud...