Dissertations in the fields included in Early Mediterranean and West Asian Religions (since 2007)

  • Rereading, Rewriting, Remembering the Desert Fathers: A Reception History of Collections of the Apophthegmata Patrum, 2018
  • Empire and Neighbors: Babylonian Rabbinic Identity in its Imperial and Local Contexts, 2017
  • Unfinished: Approaching Mark as Unfinished Note Collection, 2017
  • Prophets and Their Rivals: Interpretation, Gender, and Economics in Revelation and Sibylline Oracles 4-5, 2017
  • Sacred Things: The Legal Making of Churches in Late Antiquity, 2017
  • Throughout Your Generations: The Tannaitic Passover Ritual, 2016
  • The Invention of Authorship in Late Ancient Monasticism: A Cultural History of Shenute’s Literary Corpus, 2016
  • The Fourth Gospel and the Construction of Minds in Ancient Historiography, Biography, Romance, and Drama, 2016
  • Ordinary Jews in the Babylonian Talmud: Rabbinic Representations and Historical Interpretation, 2016
  • Idol Talk: The Discourse of False Worship in the Early Christian World, 2016
  • The Interpretation of Pseudo-Dionysius in the Works of John Dara, 2016
  • Paul, Empire, Calendar, and Galatia: A Postcolonial Analysis of Galatians and Its Modern Interpretation, 2015
  • ‘Do Not Go Out Alone at Night’: Law and Demonic Discourse in the Babylonian Talmud, 2015
  • The Body of Sin: An Emergent Account of Sin as a Cosmic Power in Romans 5-8, 2014
  • The Erotic Life of Manuscripts: A History of New Testament Textual Criticism and the Biological Sciences, 2014
  • Those Who Listen: Shenoute’s Sermons at the White Monastery, 2014
  • In Corruption: Severus of Antioch on the Body of Christ, 2013
  • Purity and Pneuma: Paul’s Offering of the Gentiles and Israel’s Eschatological Hope, 2013
  • Dismantling Surveillance in Late Antique Corporate Monasticism, 2011
  • Mapping Galilee: Josephus, Luke, and John in Light of Critical Geography, 2011
  • Out of Heaven: Myth, Eschatology, and Theurgy in the Sethian Gnostic Apocalypses of the Nag Hammadi, 2011
  • Literary Analogies in Rabbinic and Christian Monastic Sources, 2010
  • Eusebius’ Biographical Portraits: Propaganda, Piety and Patronage in Roman Caesarea, 2010
  • The Dissociation of Judaism and Christianity in the Roman Near East, First to Third Centuries C.E.: Historical Sources and Interpretation, 2010
  • The Christian Son of God in the Roman World, 2009
  • Paul the Martyr, 2009
  • At Home or Away: Travel and Death in 2 Corinthians 1-9, 2008
  • Gods, Lords and Kings: The Characterization of the Martyrs in the Early Christian Acta Martrum, 2008
  • Paul Without Religion: The Creation of a Category and the Search for an Apostle Beyond the New Perspective, 2008
  • The Widow’s Vow Among Western Elites, 350-415, 2008
  • Prayer Texts Embedded in Talmudic Literature as a Guide to an Evolving Liturgy, 2008
  • Care of the Other in Ancient Monasticism: A Cultural History of Ascetic Guidance, 2008
  • Neither Jew Nor Gentile, But Both: Paul’s ‘Christians’ as Gentile-Jews, 2008
  • The Needful and the Good: On the Boundaries of Law in Ancient Judaism, 2008
  • Religious Epistemologies in the Dead Sea Scrolls: the Heritage and Transformation of the Wisdom Tradition, 2008
  • “I Clothed You in Purple” The Rabbinic King-Parables of the Third Century Roman Empire, 2007