To move towards an understanding of displacement from within, and the forms of its
overcoming, the following chapter brings into dialogue the ancient experience of wandering …

This work was to be written in the years 2014–16 when I was on a two-year sabbatical leave,
generously supported by the Volkswagen Foundation. However, when I set out to write it, I …

Literary analysis of texts dealing with the experiences of tortured bodies faces numerous
riddles. For example, the urge to be faithful to the victims' experience hits a wall because of …

Thermouthion was no friend of solitude. Nor was she enthusiastic about the prospect of
being an older woman on her own. While still in the prime of life, she acted with prescient …

In the late fourth century, the world of Christianity was torn apart by debate over the
teachings of the third-century theologian Origen and his positions on the incorporeality of …

As the population of the Byzantine Empire became progressively Christian, bishops rose to
prominence in society. Bishops' religious authority over their flocks translated into an ever …

Composed within the first Christian century by a Roman named Hermas, the Shepherd
remains a mysterious and underestimated book to scholars and laypeople alike. Robert D …

The “linguistic turn” in early Christian studies, a signal contribution of the work of Elizabeth A.
Clark, has raised scholarly awareness of the degree to which terms previously thought to …

This article considers the role of the Muslim authorities in enforcing Christian
excommunication. After setting out late Roman precedents for the use of excommunication, it …

The transformation of the religious landscape from polytheistic to monotheistic took place
over a period of around 300 years. Understandably, some of this transformation was …