Publications

Books:

God, Slavery, and Early Christianity: Divine Possession and Ethics in the Shepherd of Hermas. Cambridge University Press. (forthcoming)

The Author in Early Christian Literature. Cambridge Elements. Cambridge University Press. (forthcoming)

Edited Volumes:

Authorial Fictions and Attributions in the Ancient Mediterranean. Co-edited with Julia D. Lindenlaub. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2.609. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2024.

Academic Articles:

“Victim Blaming and Slut Shaming in the Exegesis on the Soul (NHC II,6).” Harvard Theological Review (forthcoming)

“Monogamous Monotheism and Polyamorous Terror in Tertullian’s On Monogamy.” QTR: A Journal of Trans and Queer Studies in Religion. (forthcoming)

“Depathologizing the Bisexual Orpheus.” Helios 50.1 (2023): printed in 2024.

[OPEN ACCESS] “Edenic Children and Unripened Fruit: Anthropological and Botanical Immaturity in the Ethiopic Mystery of the Judgment of Sinners.” Collectanea Christiana Orientalia 21 (2024): 29–38.

[OPEN ACCESS] Anti-Judaism, Meddlesomeness, and Epistemological Supersessionism in the Epistle to Diognetus.” Ancient Jew Review (2024).”

“John Chrysostom’s Homily Against the Jews 8 as a Response to Antiochene Jewish Healthcare.” Journal of Late Antiquity 16.2 (2023): 378–406. https://doi.org/10.1353/jla.2023.a906773.

“Reading Slavery in the Epistle of Jude.” Journal of Biblical Literature 142.2 (2023): 325–342. DOI: 10.15699/jbl.1422.2023.8

[PDF] “Hermas the (Formerly?) Enslaved: Rethinking Manumission and Hermas’s Biography in the Shepherd of Hermas.” Early Christianity 13.2 (2022): 205–226. DOI: 10.1628/ec-2022-0014

[PDF] “3 Apocryphal Apocalypse of John: A Byzantine Question-and-Answer Dialogue.” With Tony Burke. Le Muséon 133.3-4 (2020): 397-454. DOI: 10.2143/MUS.133.3.3288873

“P.CtYBR inv. 1233: Contract from Oxyrhynchus Issued by a Woman.” The Bulletin for the American Society of Papyrologists 55 (2018): 39-44. DOI: 10.2143/BASP.55.0.3285010

Book Chapters:

“Mines and Prisons as Sites of Insecurity and Confinement in Eusebius’s On the Martyrs of Palestine.” In Pain, Trauma, and Suffering in the Roman Empire: Experiencing Insecurity. Edited by Zsuzsanna Varhelyi and James Uden. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (forthcoming 2025).

“Reading the Parable of the Vineyard (Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 5) as a Perpetuation of Roman Enslavement.” In Tension in Resistance, Paradox in Freedom: Slavery Texts in the Bible and their Readers. Edited by Stacy Davis and Soo Kim Sweeney. (Atlanta, GA: SBL Press, 2025)

“Christianity, Slavery, and Emotions in the Roman Mediterranean.” In The Metaphor of Slavery in the Philosophy of Emotions: A History and Critique. Edited by J. Patrick Jolley and Lorenzo Serini. (forthcoming 2025)

“What is Gnosticism?” and “Was There Anti-Semitism in Antiquity?” in Ancient Religion in Five Minutes. Edited by Andrew Durdin. Sheffield: Equinox. (forthcoming 2025)

“Old Age and Slavery: Realities and Representations in Roman Egypt.” In So Wicked and So Wild: Aging, Old Age, and Bodily Representation in the Ancient World. Edited by Alison Acker Gruseke and Carol Meyers. (forthcoming 2025)

“Manumission.” In Ancient Slavery and its New Testament Contexts. Edited by Christy Cobb and Katherine A. Shaner. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. (forthcoming 2025)

“Grammar.” In Writing, Enslavement, and Power in the Roman Mediterranean: 100 BCE – 300 CE. Edited by Jeremiah Coogan, Joseph Howley, and Candida Moss. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (forthcoming 2024)

“Epistle of James.” In Judeophobia in the New Testament: Texts, Contexts, and Pedagogy. Edited by Eric Vanden Eykel, Sarah Rollens, and Meredith J. C. Warren. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. (forthcoming 2024).

“Coauthorial Attribution in the Teachings of Silvanus (NHC VII,4).” In Authorial Fictions and Attributions in the Ancient Mediterranean. Edited by Chance E. Bonar and Julia D. Lindenlaub. WUNT 2.609. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2024.

“Dialogue Between Jesus and the Devil.” With Slavomír Čéplö. Pages 36–64 in New Testament Apocrypha: More Noncanonical Scriptures. Vol. 3. Edited by Tony Burke. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2023.

[PDF] “Danaids and Dirces in Roman Corinth: Sexualized Violence and Imperial Spectacle in 1 Clement.“ Pages 17–36 in Sex, Violence, and Early Christian Texts. Edited by Christy Cobb and Eric Vanden Eykel. Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2022.

“7. A Surety Contract from Early Islamic Hermopolis.” and “33. A Letter from Early Islamic Hermopolis.” Pages 56–61 and 214–217 in Coptica Sorbonnensia: Textes de la 6e école d’été de papyrologie copte, Paris, 2–11 juillet 2018 (P. Sorb. Copt.). Edited by Anne Boud’hors and Alain Delattre. Studia Papyrologica et Aegyptica Parisina 4. Paris: Association des Amis du Centre d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance, 2022.

[PDF] “Third Apocryphal Apocalypse of John.” With Tony Burke and Slavomír Čéplö. Pages 423-460 in New Testament Apocrypha: More Noncanonical Scriptures. Edited by Tony Burke. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2020.

Book Reviews:

Review of Angela Kim Harkins and Harry O. Maier, ed., Experiencing the Shepherd of Hermas. Ecstasis 10. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. In Religious Studies Review 50.2 (2024): 368–369.

Reading List review of Renee K. Harrison, Black Hands, White House: Slave Labor and the Making of America. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press. In Biblical Interpretation (2024).

Review of Jonathon Lookadoo, The Shepherd of Hermas: A Literary, Historical, and Theological Handbook. London: T&T Clark, 2021. In Vigiliae Christianae 75.5 (2021): 577–580.

Review of Jennifer Taylor Westerfeld, Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Late Antique Imagination. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania, 2019. In Ancient Jew Review.

Review of Jean-Luc Fournet. The Rise of Coptic: Egyptian Versus Greek in Late Antiquity. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020. In Ancient Jew Review.

Review of Tony Burke, ed. Fakes, Forgeries, and Fictions: Writing Ancient and Modern Christian Apocrypha. Proceedings from the 2015 York University Christian Apocrypha Symposium. Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2017. In Vigiliae Christianae 72.1 (2018): 103–106.

Review of Celene Lillie, The Rape of Eve: The Transformation of Roman Ideology in Three Early Christian Retellings of Genesis. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 2015. In Reading Religion.