Ben Zakhary is a graduate student at the Yale University Religious Studies program EMWAR track, with a focus on Early and Medieval Oriental Christianity. He holds master’s degrees from the University of Notre Dame, IN and ACTS (St. Athanasius and St. Cyril Coptic Theological School, CA). His research interest lies at the intersection of Liturgical life, Patristic thought, and Biblical reception in early and Medieval Christianity. He is especially interested in Early Alexandrian Theology, Eastern Liturgies, and Medieval Copto-Arabic thought. Some of his other academic interests include literature, liturgy, and art in Syriac, Armenian, and Ethiopic Christian traditions.
Ben Zakhary | Curriculum Vitae
Recent Publications:
- “Doxological Eschatology: Nicaea’s Prostration Canon and Egyptian Worship” Studia Liturgica 56.2 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1177/00393207261470055
- “μετοχῇ θεότητος: Partakers of Divinity in Origen’s Contra Celsum.” Journal of Early Christian Studies (JECS) 32.3 (2024): 315–340. https://doi.org/10.1353/earl.2024.a936757
- “Moment or Process? Eucharistic Consecration and Epiclesis in Egyptian Thought: A Survey of Liturgical, Patristic, and Medieval Sources,”Journal of Theological Studies 75.2 (2024): 430-462. DOI: 10.1093/jts/flae049
- “Deification in the Medieval Copto-Arabic Writing of ibn Sabbā‘” Collectanea Christiana Orientalia (CCO) 22 (2025): 125 –139. https://journals.uco.es/cco/article/view/17538/16404
- “‘We exalt you Mother of the True Light,’ Coptic Hymn or Creed; and the Date of Origin.” Collectanea Christiana Orientalia (CCO) 20 (2023): 191–249. DOI: 10.21071/cco.v20i.15721
- “Imago Dei in Early Christian Anaphoras.” Studia Liturgica 53.1 (2023, Online 2022): 24–36. DOI: 10.1177/00393207221144062
- “Support for the Biblical Liturgy of Revelation in the Coptic Tradition.” Doxology 33.4 (2022): 6–23. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8060812. https://oslpublications.org/periodicalsarchive.html.
- “One Person in Two Natures: Presumed Chalcedonian Formulation within the Christology of Gregory Nazianzen” Studia Patristica XIX (2026) – (Forthcoming).