Notes on Contributors
Jeff W. Childers
is Professor of early Christianity in the Graduate School of Theology at Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas. Jeff’s areas of research include Syriac patristics, the Syriac biblical versions, hermeneia materials in biblical manuscripts, and translations of Greek Patristic literature. He is currently working on the Syriac version Chrysostom’s Homilies on John and an edition and study of the oracular hermeneia materials in a 6th-century Syriac gospel manuscript.
Salvatore Costanza
studied papyrology, classical philology, and Byzantine literature at the University of Florence, where he received his Ph.D. in 2006. He is currently Visiting Professor at the National and Kapodistrian University in Athens. His main subject of research is ancient and medieval Greek divination. He is particularly interested in hieroscopy and is editing palmomantic and other writings ascribed to Ps.- Melampous in a forthcoming book (Paris, Belles-Lettres CUF), with an introduction by Véronique Dasen and a French translation by Michel Casevitz.
David Frankfurter
is Professor of Religion at Boston University. He is the author of Religion in Roman Egypt: Assimilation and Resistance (Princeton, 1998), Christianizing Egypt: Syncretism and Local Worlds in Late Antiquity (Princeton, 2017), and many articles on popular religion and magic, apocalypticism, violence, and demonology in Roman and late antique Egypt.
William E. Klingshirn
is Professor of Greek and Latin and Director of the Center for the Study of Early Christianity at the Catholic University of America. His research interests include the medieval and modern reception of Caesarius of Arles, lived religion in Merovingian Gaul, and the material culture of early Christianity. He is currently writing a history of diviners and divination in late antiquity.
Alexander Kocar
is the co-editor of the forthcoming volume Placing Ancient Texts: The Ritual and Rhetorical Use of Space (2018). He is currently revising for publication his dissertation on higher and lower levels of salvation in ancient Jewish and Christian texts.
AnneMarie Luijendijk
is Professor of Religion and Chair of the Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity at Princeton University. She is the author of Greetings in the Lord: Early Christians and the Oxyrhynchus Papyri (2008) and Forbidden Oracles: The Gospel of the Lots of Mary (2014). Her research interests lie at the intersection of early Christianity, papyrology, and social history.
Michael Meerson
currently an independent scholar, was a senior researcher at Princeton University who between years 2004 and 2017 worked on medieval magical, ethical and polemical treatises, such as texts from Cairo Genizah, Sefer Hasidim and Toledot Yeshu.
Franziska Naether
is Assistant Professor of Egyptology at Leipzig University’s Egyptological Institute and Egyptian Museum, Germany, and research associate at the Department of Ancient Studies of Stellenbosch University, South Africa. She is currently completing a monograph on cult practices and their functions in Egyptian literary texts and also working on a new digital edition of the Rosetta Stone.
Laura S. Nasrallah
is Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Harvard University’s Divinity School. She is author of the forthcoming Archaeology and the Letters of Paul, as well as her past books Christian Reponses to Roman Art and Architecture: The Second-Century Church Amid the Spaces of Empire and An Ecstasy of Folly: Prophecy and Authority in Early Christianity. She is co-editor of Prejudice and Christian Beginnings: Investigating Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in Early Christian Studies and of From Roman to Early Christian Thessalonikē: Studies in Religion and Archaeology.
David M. Ratzan
is Head of the Library of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University. His research focuses on issues related to papyrology, the social history of law and economics in the ancient world, and numismatics.
Randall Stewart
is Associate Professor of Classics and Coptic at the University of Utah. He is currently preparing a critical edition of the Sortes Barberinianae as well as a monograph on the onomastica embedded in that work and in both versions of the Sortes Astrampsychi.
Pieter Willem van der Horst
studied Classical and Semitic languages. He is emeritus Professor of Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity at Utrecht University and member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. For his numerous publications see www.pietervanderhorst.com.
Kevin Wilkinson
is Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Toronto. He specializes in the history and literature of the Later Roman Empire with a particular interest in the intersection of religion and politics during this period. He is the author of New Epigrams of Palladas: A Fragmentary Papyrus Codex (PCtYBR inv. 4000) and is preparing a book that will explore Palladas’ topical poetry against the backdrop of the historical period from Diocletian to Constantine.