Upcoming Schedule

All meetings will be held via Zoom (Times are Central Time)

• Tuesday, January 16th (4:00-5:30pm CST) – Emily R. Cain, Mirrors of the Divine: Late Ancient Christianity and the Vision of God (Oxford Press, 2023).

Previous Selections

• Emanuel Fiano. Three Powers in Heaven: The Emergence of Theology and the Parting of the Ways (Yale University Press, 2023).
• Travis W. Proctor. Demonic Bodies and the Dark Ecologies of Early Christian Culture (Oxford Press, 2022).
• Jonathan Zecher. Spiritual Direction as a Medical Art in Early Christian Monasticism (Oxford Press, 2022).
• David A. Michelson. The Library of Paradise: A History of Contemplative Reading in the Monasteries of the Church of the East (Oxford Press, 2023).
• Julia Kelto Lillis. Virgin Territory Configuring Female Virginity in Early Christianity (University of California Press, 2022).
• Jeremiah Coogan. Eusebius the Evangelist: Rewriting the Fourfold Gospel in Late Antiquity (Oxford Press, 2022).
• Michael Motia. Imitations of Infinity: Gregory of Nyssa and the Transformation of Mimesis (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021).
• Classics in the field: Elizabeth A. Clark. The Origenist Controversy: The Cultural Construction of an Early Christian Debate (Princeton University Press, 1992).
• Daniel Caner. The Rich and the Pure: Philanthropy and the Making of Christian Society in Early Byzantium (University of California Press, 2021).
• Matthew Thiessen. Jesus and the Forces of Death: The Gospels’ Portrayal of Ritual Impurity within First-Century Judaism (Baker Academic, 2020).
• Caroline T. Schroeder. Children and Family in Late Antique Egyptian Monasticism (Cambridge University Press, 2020).
• Maria E. Doerfler. Jephthah’s Daughter, Sarah’s Son: The Death of Children in Late Antiquity (University of California Press, 2019).
• Niki Kasumi Clements. Sites of the Ascetic Self : John Cassian and Christian Ethical Formation (Notre Dame Press, 2020).
• Robyn Faith Walsh. The Origins of Early Christian Literature: Contextualizing the New Testament within Greco-Roman Literary Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2021).
• Blake Leyerle. The Origins of Early Christian Literature: Contextualizing the New Testament within Greco-Roman Literary Culture (University of California Press, 2020).
• Jack Tannous. The Making of the Medieval Middle East: Religion, Society, and Simple Believers (Princeton University Press, 2018).
• Philip Michael Forness. Preaching Christology in the Roman Near East: A Study of Jacob of Serugh (Oxford University Press, 2019).
• Jeffrey Wickes. Bible and Poetry in Late Antique Mesopotamia: Ephrem’s Hymns on Faith (University of California Press, 2019).
• Christoph Markschies. God’s Body: Jewish, Christian, and Pagan Images of God. Translated by Alexander Johannes Edmonds (Baylor University Press, 2019).
• Ally Kateusz. Mary and Early Christian Women: Hidden Leadership (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).
• Michael J. Thate. The Godman and the Sea: The Empty Tomb, the Trauma of the Jews, and the Gospel of Mark (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019).
• Philip Hardie. Classicism and Christianity in Late Antique Latin Poetry (University of California Press, 2019).
• Michal Beth Dinkler. Literary Theory and the New Testament (Yale University Press, 2019).
• Virginia Burrus. Ancient Christian Ecopoetics: Cosmologies, Saints, Things (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019).
• Ellen Muehlberger. Moment of Reckoning: Imagined Death and Its Consequences in Late Ancient Christianity (Oxford University Press, 2019).
• John S. Kloppenborg. Christ’s Associations: Connecting and Belonging in the Ancient City (Yale University Press, 2019).