TCGLA21: Readings and Resources

NB: We’ve linked the social media profile of scholars who’ve been mentioned as resources without specific works. When social media profiles are private or unavailable, we’ve linked faculty webpages, online archives, and as a last resort, Wikipedia.

Some PDFs can be found on Dropbox. We’ll note which ones.

Sunday Roundtable I: Method, Ethics, and Historiography in the Study of Late Antique Christianity Sunday 10:00am-12:00pm (EST)

Speakers: Young Richard Kim, ‎University of Illinois at Chicago Annette Yoshiko Reed, David Maldonado Rivera, Kenyon College Alexandra Leewon Schultz, Harvard University Ekaputra Tupamahu, Portland Seminary

Readings and Resources: ● Recommended by Young Richard Kim. (Thanks to CJ Schmidt for collating. I’ve linked accounts when public; faculty webpages if Twitter is private or unavailable): ○ Donna Zuckerberg ○ Rebecca Kennedy ○ Sarah Bond ■ “Pseudoarchaeology and the Racism behind Ancient Aliens” at Hyperallergic ○ Curtis Dozier ○ Shelly P. Haley ○ Patrice Rankine ○ Emily Greenwood ○ Sasha-Mae Eccleston ○ Dan-el Padilla Peralta ○ Rosa Andújar ○ Kelly Nguyen ○ And of course, Eidolon Journal ● Recommended by Jennifer Barry ○ First Millennium Network (Thanks again to CJ Schmidt for grabbing the site!) ● Recommended by Jeremiah Coogan ○ Kate Ozment, “Rationale for a Feminist Bibliography” Textual Cultures 13.1 (2020): 149-178. ● Recommended by Alexandra Schultz (linked by CJ Schmidt): ○ Asheesh Kapoor Siddiqui: “The Modern American University is a Right-Wing Institution” at TeenVogue. ○ Ella Haselswerdt ○ John Jack Winkler ■ The Constraints of Desire: The Anthropology of Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece (Routledge, 1990). ○ Marchella Ward - on disability studies and queer studies in philology ■ esp. Hanna Silverblank and Marchella Ward “Why does Classical Reception need Disability Studies?” Classical Reception Studies 12.4 (2020): 503-520. ○ Beverley Butler, Return to Alexandria: An Ethnography of Cultural Heritage Revivalism in Museum Memory (Routledge, 2007). ○ Hala Halim, Alexandrian Cosmopolitanism (Fordham, 2013). ● Recommended by CJ Schmidt: ○ Lindsay Ellis, Jack Stripling, and Dan Bauman: “The New Order” in The Chronicle of Higher Education. ○ J. Oliver Conroy, “The Life and Death of John Chau, the Man who tried to convert his killers,” in The Guardian. ○ Simran Jeet Singh, Fauja Singh Keeps Going. (Penguin Random House, 2020). ● Recommended by Candida Moss: ○ Ekaputra Tupamahu - particularly on how Romantic/19th century constructions of authorial intent ● Recommended by David DeVore ○ Hans von Wees, “Thermopylae: Herodotus versus the Legend,” pp. 9-53 in Textual Strategies in Ancient War Narrative, eds. Lidewij W. van Gils, Irene J.F. de Jong, and Caroline H.M. Kroon (Brill, 2018). ● Recommended by Andrew Jacobs: ○ Agora movie (2009): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agora_(film) ○ The OpEd Project ● Recommended by Tina Sessa: ○ Niall Ferguson, “Paris and the Fall of Rome” for the Boston Globe. ● Recommended by Deborah Saxon: ○ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, “The Danger of a Single Story” (TED talk) ● Recommended by Blossom Stefaniw ○ Ingrid Esther Lilly ○ Kristi Upson-Saia ● Recommended by Tina Shepardson ○ Engaging the Political in the Religious Studies Classroom

Sunday Plenary Sessions

Session 1: Forming the Self: Ancient and Modern Receptions Sunday 1:00-3:00pm (EST) “A Trauma as Profound as That of Gnosticism”: Rereading John Noonan’s History of Ancient Positions on Contraception Tara Baldrick-Morrone University of Tennessee, Knoxville

“Care of the self” (ἐπιμελεία ἑαυτοῦ) in Gregory of Nyssa and Michel Foucault Niki Kasumi Clements Rice University

The Authority of Paul and Women in Polycarp’s Letter to the Philippians Janelle Peters Loyola Marymount University

Respondent: Melissa Harl Sellew, University of Minnesota

● Recommended by Niki Kasumi Clements ○ Michel Foucault’s citations of Early Christian Texts ○ Niki Kasumi Clements, “Foucault’s Christianities,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 89.1 (2021):1-49. ○ See more of Niki’s work on Foucault here. ○ Niki Kasumi Clements, “ ,” in Sites of the Ascetic Self: John Cassian and Christian Ethical Formation (, 2020). [PDF in Dropbox] ● Recommended by Niki Kasumi Clements, CJ Schmidt and Andrew Jacobs ○ Foucault’s Confessions series. ■ Tina Shepardson recommended Liz Clark’s talk found here. ● Recommended by CJ Schmidt ○ Candida Moss, “Christian Leader says Trans People are the Oldest, Most Dangerous Kind of Heretic” for . ● Recommended by CJ Schimdt and Shaily Patel ○ Priya Satiya, Time’s Monster: How History makes History (Harvard, 2020). ● Recommended by Andrew Jacobs ○ Foucault Fiches de Lecture (archives) ● Recommended by Evan Axel Anderson ○ Blossom Stefaniw, “Feminist Historiography and Uses of the Past” Studies in Late Antiquity 4.3 (2020): 260-283. ● Recommended by Harry Maier ○ Nietzsche’s “On the Uses and Abuses of History for Life”

Session 2: Poetics and Persuasion Sunday 4:00–5:30pm (EST) A Christian in the Caliph’s Court: The ‘Book’ in Timothy I’s Disputation with the Caliph Mahdī Abby Kulisz Indiana University

Blue God: Polychrome and Early Christian Mysticism Michael Motia University of Massachusetts, Boston Bonds of Love: Conjuring Orthodoxy in John Chrysostom’s Homily in Praise of Meletios Sarah Porter Harvard University Respondent: Jae Han, Brown University(edited) May 30, 2021

● Recommended by Blossom Stefaniw ○ Books Known Only by Title Project ○ Maia Kotrosits, The Lives of Objects (University of Chicago Press, 2020). Thanks to Jeremiah Coogan for the link! ○ Sara Ahmed (probably everything) ● Recommended by Mike Motia (links from Andrew Jacobs): ○ Rita Felski, Hooked: Art and Attachment, (University of Chicago, 2020). ● Recommended by Niki Kasumi Clements ○ Eve Sedgwick ○ Teresa Brennan ○ Rachel J.D. Smith, Excessive Saints: Gender, Narrative, and Theological Invention in Thomas of Cantimpré’s Mystical Hagiographies (Columbia, 2018) ○ Robert Glenn Davis, The Weight of Love: Affect, Ecstasy, and Union in the of Bonaventure (Fordham, 2016) ○ Amy Hollywood and Patricia Z. Beckman, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Christian Mysticism (Cambridge, 2012) ● Recommended by Jeremiah Coogan ○ Blake Leyerle, The Narrative Shape of Emotion in the Preaching of John Chrysostom (University of Press, 2020). ○ The Postclassicisms Collective, Postclassicisms (University of Chicago, 2019). ○ Mel Y. Chen, Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect (Duke UP, 2012). ● Recommended by Abby Kulisz ○ Maia Kotrosits, Rethinking Early Christian Identity (Fortress, 2015). ● Recommended by Sara Porter ○ Stephen Moore and Kren Pray, “Introduction: Mappings and Crossings,” pp. 1-37 in Religion, Emotion, Sensation: Affect Theories and (Fordham, 2020). ● Recommended by Ellen Muelberger ○ Jaimie Gunderson - dissertation on affect in 2 Corinthians and other work ■ “Feeling Apollo: Sensory Engagement in the Sanctuary of Apollo at Klaros.” Material Religion. (shared by Greg Given via Twitter)

Monday Plenary Sessions

Session 1: De-Centering the ‘Author’ in Late Ancient Christianity Monday 10:00am-12:00pm (EST) A Narrator by Any Other Name: Narrative Variation in the Passion of Perpetua and Felicity Manuscripts Caroline Crews University of at Austin

Recycled Text: Parallels between the Apostolic Constitutions and the Pseudo-Ignatian Letters Phillip Fackler University of Pennsylvania

How Manuscript Evidence Troubles the Notion of Strong Authorship. The Case of the Book of Hierotheos Nicolò Sassi Indiana University

Naming the Anonymous Persian Sage: Authorship and Syriac Historiography James E. Walters Hill Museum & Manuscript Library

Respondent: Andrew Jacobs,

● Recommended by Jeremiah Coogan ○ Yii-Jan Lin, The Erotic Life of Manuscripts: Textual Criticism and the Biological Sciences. (Oxford UP, 2016). ● Recommended by Andrew Jacobs ○ Ellen Muehlberger, “On Authors, Fathers, and Holy Men,” for the Marginalia Review of Books. ● Recommended by Candida Moss ○ L. Stephanie Cobb and Andrew S. Jacobs, The Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas in Late Antiquity (University of California, 2021) ● Recommended by Ellen Muehlberger ○ Jeff Wickes ○ Peter Martens

Session 2: New Materialism and Early Christianity Monday 1:00pm-3:00pm (EST) Ascetic Assemblages: Disruption and Experimentation in Early Christianity Katie Kleinkopf University of Louisville

The Matter of Daniel the Stylite Christopher Sweeney Fordham University

Adunatio Animae et Carnis: Irenaeus of Lyons and a Theology of Blood Allen G. Wilson Fordham University

Respondent: Kristi Upson-Saia, Occidental College ● Recommended by Sarah Porter ○ Ada Limón, “Preparing the Body for a Reopened World,” on LitHub. ● Recommended by CJ Schimdt ○ Amy Hollywood, “Inescapable Christianity” (Review of Gil Anidjar’s Blood), at Marginalia Review of Books. ● Recommended by Tina Shepardson ○ Manuela Ceballos, “Ink, Blood, and Body: Symbolic and Material Intersections,” in Intersections: Visual Cultures of Islamic Cosmopolitanism, eds. Melia Belli and Saleema Waraich (University of Florida Press, 2021). ● Recommended by Josua Brockway (thanks to CJ Schmidt for the links) ○ Harry Farley, “Christian protesters arrested after protest hanging four storeys above minister’s building” in Christianity Today. ● Recommended by Jennifer Barry (links from CJ Schmidt) ○ Peter Mena, Place and Identity in the Lives of Antony, Paul, and Mary of Egypt: Desert as Borderland (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). ○ John Penniman ● Recommended by Tina Shepardson (links from CJ Schmidt) ○ Glenn Peers, Subtle Bodies: Representing Angels in Byzantium (University of California Press, 2001). ● Recommended by Niki Kasumi Clements ○ Frantz Fanon on the gaze as mode of domination and subjection. ○ Martina Tazzioli’s talk for Foucault’s Confessions, on the colonial logics of subjection in Fanon & Foucault. ● Recommended by Andrew Jacobs ○ Eugene F. Rogers, Blood Theology: Seeing Red in Body - and God - Talk. (Cambridge UP, 2021) ● Recommended by Christopher Sweeney ○ James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Yale UP, 1999) ○ David Graeber ● Recommended by Jeremiah Coogan (seconded by Candida Moss) ○ Cat Lambert, “The Ancient Entomological Bookworm,” Arethusa 53 (2020): 1-24. ● Recommended by Michael Motia ○ Foucault’s interview on friendship. [PDF of text on Dropbox] ○ Feminist critiques of Levinas (from Beauvoir, etc.)

Session 3: Constructing and Disrupting Categories Monday 4:00–5:30pm (EST) Rethinking Adoptionism: An Argument for Dismantling a Dubious Category Jeremiah Coogan

The Limits of Collective “Orthodox” Authorship in Eusebius’ Ecclesiastical History David DeVore California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Out of a Foreign Air: ApocAdam and the Appropriation of Jewish Apocalyptic Literature Daniel Charles Smith University of Texas at Austin

Respondent: Rebecca Lyman, Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Emerita(edited) May 31, 2021

● Recommended by Chance Bonar ○ Giovanni Bazzana, Having the Spirit of Christ: Spirit Possession and Exorcism in Early Christ Groups (Yale UP, 2020). ● Recommended by Rebbecca Lyman (link from CJ Schmidt) ○ Paula Fredriksen, “Mandatory Retirement: Ideas in the Study of Christian Origins whose Time has come to go,” in Studies in Religion 35.2 (2006): 231-246. [PDF in Dropbox] ○ Paula Fredriksen, “How High Can Early Christology Be?” in Monotheism and Christology in Graeco-Roman Antiquity, ed. Matthew Novenson. (Brill, 2020). ● Recommended by Brock Cassian (link from CJ Schmidt) ○ Averil Cameron, “The Violence of Orthodoxy” in Heresy and Identity in Late Antiquity, eds. Edward Iricinschi and Holger M. Zellentin (Mohr Siebeck, 2008). ● Recommended by Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos ○ Elizabeth Digeser, “Collaboration and Identity in the Aftermath of Persecution,” in Reconceiving Religious Conflict, eds. Wendy Mayer and Chris L. de Wet (Taylor and Francis, 2018) [PDF in Dropbox] ● Recommended by Ellen Muehlberger (links from David DeVore) ○ Caroline Vout, “Embracing Egypt,” in Rome the Cosmopolis, eds. Catharine Edwards and Greg Woolf (Cambridge UP, 2003). ● Recommended by Rodrigo Galiza and seconded by Blossom Stefaniw ○ Wittgenstein on discourse as a game with rules ● Recommended by David DeVore ○ William H. Sewell Jr., Logics of History: Social Theory and Social Transformation (University of Chicago Press, 2005). ● Recommended by Blossom Stefaniw ○ Work of Jean Piaget ○ George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, Metaphors we Live By (University of Chicago, 2003). ○ Hugo Lundhaug Tuesday, June 1

Session 1: Building and Breaching Boundaries in Late Ancient Discourses Tuesday 10:00am-12:00pm (EST)

From Periphery to Center: Reviewing the Place of the Holy Man in the Late Antique Ritual Landscape Camille Leon Angelo,

Eternal Pain, Eternal Witness: Hell and Cosmology in the City of God and the Apocalypse of Paul Sara Misgen, Yale University

Judgment and Vindication: New Insights on the Brescia Casket’s Visual Program and its Relationship to Text Julia Nations-Quiroz, Yale University

The Curious Case of Eunomianism and the Law, 389-399 CE CJ Rice, Yale University

Respondent: Maria Doerfler, Yale University

Movie referenced during conversation (Reference and link provided by Colin Whiting) Simón del desierto (1965)

● Recommended by Sarah Porter ○ Christine Shepardson ■ “Bodies on Display: Deploying the Saints in the Religious Competitions of Late Antique Antioch.” In Antioch II: the many faces of Antioch: intellectual exchange and religious diversity, CE 350-450, edited by Silke-Petra Bergjan abd Susanna Elm. Civitatum Orbis Mediterranei Studia, 3. ( Mohr Siebeck, 2018) ● Recommended by Camille Leon Angelo (she/her) to Everyone: ○ Mel Chen ■ Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect (Duke, 2012) ● Shared by Tina Shepardson ○ Pictures from 2010 Syria/Turkey Trip ● Recommended by Rodrigo Galiza ○ Bibleplaces.com ● Recommended by Rob von Thaden ○ Kent Brintnall ■ Ecce Homo: The Male-Body-in-Pain as Redemptive Figure (Chicago, 2011) ○ Vernon K. Robbins ■ The Art of Visual Exegesis: Rhetoric, Texts, Images (SBL, 2017) ● Recommended by Candida Moss ○ Meghan Henning ○ Stephanie Cobb ■ Divine Deliverance: Pain and Painlessness in Early Christian Martyr Texts (California, 2016). ● Recommended by Allen Wilson ○ Emanuel Fiano (on Luciferians)

Session 2: Augustine and Classical Rhetoric Tuesday 1:00-3:00pm (EST)

[withdrawn] Augustine’s Dialogues Jennifer Ebbeler, University of Texas at Austin

The Rhetorical Role of Social Martyrdom in Augustine’s Sermones ad Populum Diane Fruchtman, Rutgers University

[withdrawn] Augustine’s Debate with Maximinus and the Limits of Forensic Rhetoric Adam Ployd, Eden Theological Seminary

Augustine’s Use of Imitatio in Confessions 7 Mark Weedman, Johnson University

Respondent: Elizabeth Castelli, Barnard College

● Recommended by Candida Moss ○ Elizabeth Castelli ■ Imitating Paul: A Discourse of Power (John Knox, 1991) ○ Meghan Henning ■ Hell Hath No Fury, under contract with ● Recommended by Rebecca Stephens ○ Christa Gray and James Corke-Webster (eds.), The Hagiographical Experiment: Developing Discourses of Sainthood (Brill, 2020) ● Mentioned during Discussion (links via Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos ) ○ Elizabeth Castelli, Memory and Martyrdom: Early Christian Culture Making (Columbia, 2004). ○ Èric Rebillard, Christians and Their Many Identities in Late Antiquity, North Africa, 200-450 CE (Cornell, 2017). ● Recommended by Jennifer Barry ○ Susanna Elm ○ Dennis Trout ○ Virginia Burrus ○ Maureen Tilley Session 3 Health and Injury Tuesday 4:00–5:30pm (EST)

“This is What Physicians Do”: John Chrysostom’s Homily against the Jews 8 as a Response to Antiochene Jewish Healthcare Chance Bonar, Harvard University

The Medical Imagination in Gregory of Nyssa’s De hominis opificio Charles (CJ) Schmidt, Rice University

Virgin Acts: Blinding, Castration, & the Violence of Male Chastity Jeannie Sellick, University of Virginia

Respondent: Candida Moss,

● Recommended by Andrew Jacobs ○ Dayna Kalleres ■ City of Demons: Violence, Ritual, and Christian Power (California, 2015) ○ Rebecca Krawiec ■ In Michael Chin and Caroline Schroeder, eds., Melania: Early Christianity through the Life of One Family (California, 2020). ○ Christine Shepardson ■ Controlling Contested Places: Late Antique Antioch and the Spatial Politics of Religious Controversy (California, 2019) ● Recommended by Rodrigo Galiza to Everyone: ○ Caroline Walker Bynum ■ Christian Materiality: An Essay on Late Medieval Religion (Zone Books, 2011). ■ Lecture on YouTube ● Recommended by John Penniman ○ Ian Kinman ○ Lindsey Mercer ● Recommended by Camille Leon Angelo ○ Matt Kuefler ■ The Manly Eunuch: Masculinity, Gender Ambiguity, and Christian Ideology in Late Antiquity (Chicago, 2001) ○ Kathryn Ringrose ■ The Perfect Servant: Eunuchs and the Social Construction of Gender in Byzantium (Chicago, 2003) ● Recommended by Candida Moss ○ Tom Geue ■ “Soft Hands, Hard Power: Sponging Off of the Empire of Leisure (Virgil, Georgics 4),” JRS 108 (2018): 115-40 ○ Heidi Wendt ■ At the Temple Gates: The Religion of Freelance Experts in the Roman Empire (Oxford, 2016) ● Recommended by Jennifer Barry ○ Her “Diagnosing Heresy: Ps.-Martyrius’s Funerary Speech for John Chrysostom.” JECS 24.3 (Fall 2016). ○ Kristi Upson-Saia ○ Heidi Marx ● Recommended by Diane Fruchtman ○ Julio Cesar Migalhães de Oliviera ■ “Communication and Plebeian Sociability in Late Antiquity: The View from North Africa in the Age of Augustine,” in Lucy Grig, ed., Popular Culture in the Ancient World (Cambridge, 2017). ○ Shari Boodts ■ “Communication and Plebeian Sociability in Late Antiquity: The View from North Africa in the Age of Augustine ”

Wednesday, June 2

Session 1: Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha Wednesday 10:00am-12:00pm (EST)

The Story of the Midwives in the Protevangelium of James: A Creative Use of a Johannine Motif Elizabeth Corsar, Scottish Episcopal Institute

Story World and the Expanded Universe: Fan Studies in Dialogue with the Apocrypha Tom de Bruin, Newbold College of Higher Education

The Act of Peter in Azotus and the Forgiveness of Devils Cambry Pardee, Pepperdine University

Respondents: Janet Spittler, University of Virginia, and Tony Burke, York University

● Recommended by Blossom Stefaniw ○ Esther Brownsmith ■ works on the book of Esther as alternate universe fanfic with major immersion in fan fic theory ● Recommended by Tom de Bruin (link provided by Tara Baldrick-Morrone) ○ Ika Willis ■ "The classical canon and/as transformative work." Transformative Works and Cultures 21 (2016): 1-8. ● Recommended by Esther Brownsmith ○ Sarah Iles Johnston ■ The Story of Myth. Harvard, 2018. ● Recommended by Jennifer ○ Christy Cobb ● Recommended by Phillip Fackler ○ David Frankfurter ■ Evil Incarnate: Rumors of Demonic Conspiracy and Satanic Abuse in History (Princeton, 2008) ● Recommended by David DeVore ○ Candida Moss ■ Divine Bodies: Resurrecting Perfection in the New Testament and Early Christianity (Yale, 2019). ● Recommended by Brandon Hawk ○ e-Clavis page for the Act of Peter & Azotus ○ Manuscripta Apocryphorum ● Recommended by Tony Burke ○ Meredith Warren ■ “My OTP: Harry Potter Fanfiction and the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha,” Scriptura, 8.1 (2006): 53–66. ● Recommended by Liza Anderson ○ Liza’s rough translation of a Syriac and Arabic story about a demon who repents, becomes a monk, and is eventually forgiven by God and becomes an angel again after all of the other monks intercede for him (13th century? Later?) ● Recommended by Rob von Thaden ○ Jake Doberenz ■ “Reading Religious Texts as a ‘Cinematic Universe.’” Pop Culture and Theology ● Recommended by Katie Kleinkopf ○ Andrew Mark Henry, “How Star Wars Explains the New Testament Canon,” Religion for Breakfast ○ Alie Ward, “Fanthropology (Fandom) with Meredith Levine,” Ologies podcast ● Recommended by Allen Wilson ○ Twitter thread on fanfic as a tool for understanding NT textual readerships ● Recommended by Jamey Walters ○ Translation of the Travels of Peter in New Testament Apocrypha, vol. 2, ed. Tony Burke

Review Panel: Blossom Stefaniw’s Christian Reading Wednesday 1:00-3:00pm (EST) Michael Motia, University of Massachusetts, Boston J. Gregory Given, Harvard College Kelsey Rodenbiker, Glasgow University Jeremiah Coogan, Oxford University

Link to Blossom’s book (shared by Andrew Jacobs) ● Recommended by Greg Given ○ Michael Motia’s review of Blossom Stefaniw’s book in Church History 89.1 (2020): 155–56 ● Recommended by Andrew Jacobs ○ Charles Kingsley, Hypatia, or New Foes with an Old Face (1853) ■ Andrew says it’s not a good novel ● Recommended by Tara Baldrick-Marone ○ Niki Kasumi Clements, Sites of the Ascetic Self (Notre Dame, 2020) ● Recommended by Greg Given ○ Oulipo ■ Oulipo website (shared by Sarah Porter) ■ Wikipedia page (shared by Michael Motia) ■ Translation (shared by Michael Motia) ● Recommended by Allen Wilson (link from Andrew Jacobs) ○ Michael Chin ■ “Marvelous Things Heard: On Finding Historical Radiance.” The Massachusetts Review 58.3 (2017): 478–491. ● Recommended by Jennifer Barry, regarding autobiographical engagements ○ Ed Watts ■ Riot in Alexandria: Historical Debate in Pagan and Christian Communities (University of California Press, 2010) ○ Semeia volume 72 ○ Virginia Burrus ■ “Macrina’s Tattoo.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 33.3 (Fall 2003): 403–417. ● Recommended by Sarah Porter ○ Maia Kotrosits ■ “Penetration and Its Discontents: Greco-Roman Sexuality, the Acts of Paul and Thecla, and Theorizing Eros without the Wound.” Journal of the History of Sexuality 27.3 (Sept. 2018): 343–366. ■ The Lives of Objects: Material Culture, Experience, And The Real In The History Of Early Christianity (Chicago, 2020) ● Recommended by Kelsie Rodenbiker ○ Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies (JIBS) ● Recommended by Katie Kleinkopf ○ Matthew Gillis ● Recommended by Jeremiah Coogan ○ Saidiya Hartmann’s ‘critical fabulation’ ● Mentioned by Blossom Stefaniw ○ Molly Andrews

Roundtable II: Material Scholarship: Horizons in Late Antiquity Wednesday 4:00pm-5:30pm (EST) Nour Ammari, New York University Solange Ashby, Barnard College Alexander Hsu, University of Notre Dame Brent Nongbri, MF Norwegian School of Theology

● Recommended by Jennifer Barry ○ @Keepingit_101 ○ Roberta Mazza ■ “‘Property of a gentleman’: The market of ancient manuscripts and the problem of provenance.” Marginalia, July 6, 2018. ○ Patty Gerstenblith (link from CJ. Schmidt) ■ “Provenience and Provenance Intersecting with International Law in the Market for Antiquities.” North Carolina Journal of International Law, Vol. 45, No. 1, 2020 ○ Forum on First Millenium Manuscripts ○ Jennifer Barry and Eva Mroczek, Origins Forum, Marginalia ● Recommended by Alexandra Schultz ○ Richard Ovenden ■ Burning the Books (Harvard, 2020) ● Recommended by Alexander Hsu ○ Jack W. Chen, Anatoly Detwyler, Xiao Liu, Christopher M. B. Nugent, and Bruce Rusk, ed. Literary Information in China: A History (Columbia, 2021) ● Recommended by Blossom Stefaniw ○ Brent Nongbri ■ "A New Methodology and Ethics for Manuscript Studies" ● Recommended by Dana Robinson ○ Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom ■ The Monastic Landscape of Late Antique Egypt: An Archaeological Reconstruction. Cambridge, 2017. ● Recommended by Pratima Gopalakrishnan ○ Milka Levy-Rubin ■ Non-Muslims in the Early Islamic Empire: From Surrender to Co-existence (Cambridge, 2012). ● Recommended by Jenny Knust ○ Manuscript Migration ● Recommended by Jeremiah Coogan ○ Ann Blair ■ Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age (Yale, 2011) Resources (Collated from Discord, both texty and linky, but not including materials listed elsewhere. Some PDFs are on Dropbox - we note which ones.)

● Recommended by Jamey Walters ○ Stephen bar Sudaili, The Book of Hierotheos. ○ Resources and Tools for Manuscript Studies website. (Which is very cool indeed!) ● Recommended by Candida Moss (with a h/t to Jeremiah Coogan) ○ Hanna Marcus, Forbidden Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy (University of Chicago, 2020) ● Recommended by Tina Shepardson ○ Tom Geue, Author Unknown: The Power of Anonymity in Ancient Rome (Harvard UP, 2019). ● Recommended by CJ Schmidt ○ Mark Bradley, Victoria Leonard, and Laurence Totelin, eds. Bodily Fluids in Antiquity. (Routledge, 2021) [PDF in Dropbox] ● Recommended by Jeremiah Coogan ○ Joseph Howley’s recent work on enslavement and authorship in the Roman Mediterranean ○ Duncan MacRae, Legible Religion: Books, Gods, and Rituals in Roman Culture (Harvard UP, 2016). ● Recommended by David Maldonado Rivera ○ Special edition of Past and Present on the Global Middle Ages, Catherine Holmes and Naomi Standen, eds. [PDF in Dropbox] ● Recommended by Niki Kasumi Clements ○ Eve Sedgwick, Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity (Duke UP, 2003) ○ John Corrigan, ed. Feeling Religion (Duke UP, 2018) ○ Teresa Brennan, The Transmission of Affect (Cornell UP, 2014) ○ Stephen C. Finley, Biko Mandela Gray, and Lori Latrice Martin, eds. The Religion of White Rage (Edinburgh UP, 2020) ● Recommended by Jennifer Barry ○ Tina Shepardson, Controlling Contested Spaces: Late Antique Antioch and the Spatial Politics of Religious Controversy (University of California, 2019) ○ Work of Edward Watts, particularly Riot in Alexandria: Historical Debate in Pagan and Christian Communities (University of California, 2010). ○ CFPs that prioritize equity and access! ■ Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies. ■ Studies in Late Antiquity. ■ Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion. ○ If you want to see more autobiographical engagement with early Christian texts: ■ Semeia 72. ■ Smaller sample at the end of Virginia Burrus, “Macrina’s Tattoo” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 33.3 (2003): 403-417. ● Recommended by Kelly Holob ○ Christopher Faraone, The Transformation of Greek Amulets in Roman Imperial Times (UPenn Press, 2018) ● Recommended by Tina Shepardson ○ Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos, Constantinople: Ritual, Violence, and Memory in the Making of a Christian Imperial Capital (University of California, 2020). ● Recommended by Katie Kleinkopf ○ Jasbir Puar, “I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess: Becoming-Intersectional in Assemblage Theory.” PhiloSOPHIA 2.1 (2012): 49-66. ○ Legacy Russell, “Glitch Feminism” [NB: If you’re photosensitive, please note this website has flashing lights! You can use this link instead.] ● Recommended by CJ Schmidt ○ Diotima website. ● Recommended by Blossom Stefaniw ○ Summer language courses in Romania. ● Recommended by Sarah Porter ○ Maia Kotrosits, “Penetration and Its Discontents: Greco-Roman Sexuality, the Acts of Paul and Thecla, and Theorizing Eros without the Wound” Journal of the History of Sexuality 27.3 (2018): 343-366.

Pedagogy Resources and Recommendations

● On Decentering Normative Christian Narratives (Cruella) ○ Recommended by Theodulphus ■ Heariste, “On the Linda Lindas, Gen X, and Classical Reception Studies,” Sententiae Antiquae ■ Images of Jesus from around the world ○ Recommended by CJ Schmidt ■ “Engaging the Political in the Religious Studies Classroom: Lessons from Studying Religion in Late Antiquity” ■ James C. Lewis' "Icons of the Bible," "African Deities," and "African Kings" series ○ Recommended by Alex Perkins ■ Donatist martyr stories ○ Recommended by Allen Wilson ■ Fanfiction ○ Recommended by Kelly Holob ■ Engaging with material culture (e.g., mosaics) in the classroom ○ Recommended by Jeremiahb ■ Writing short stories from the perspective of the “losers” (e.g., Ezra-Nehemiah from the perspective of women and children who were cast out) ● Textbooks/Sourcebooks for Global Early/Late Antique Christianity ○ Recommended by Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos ■ John (Chip) Coakley and Andrea Sterk, Readings in World Christianity (Orbis) ○ Recommended by Jamey Walters ■ His Eastern Christianity: A Reader (Eerdmans, 2021) ○ Recommended by Rodrigo Galiza ■ John Anthony McGuckin, The Path of Christianity: The First Thousand Years (InterVarsity, 2017) ■ Robert Louis Wilken, The First Thousand Years: A Global (Yale, 2013)