Annette Yoshiko Reed surveys the impact of E. P. Sanders upon the study of Second Temple Judaism.
Read MoreRediscovering Enoch from the Fifteenth to Nineteenth Century
Annette Reed introduces the dynamic range of scholarship in a new edited volume discussing Enoch’s modern reception.
Read MoreForum | Method, Ethics, and Historiography: Tracing a Global Late Antiquity from and beyond Christianity
Manuscript illumination of Manichaean priests (ca. 8th-9th century CE) from Gaochang, Tarim Basin, China [Wikimedia].
Manuscript illumination of Manichaean priests (ca. 8th-9th century CE) from Gaochang, Tarim Basin, China [Wikimedia].
We spend a lot of time speaking about what we study and how. When putting together the recent conference on “Tracing Christians in Global Late Antiquity,” the organizers wisely decided to open with a panel discussion on method, ethics, and historiography—a topic that opens a space for addressing what we talk about too little, namely, who.
Read MoreTwo New Books on Epiphanius: Biography and Its Limits for Late Antiquity
Saint Augustine of Hippo - attributed to Gerard Seghers (Wikimedia Commons)
Saint Augustine of Hippo - attributed to Gerard Seghers (Wikimedia Commons)
"In effect, then, both biographies unsettle the very presumption that underpins the genre—that is, confidence in the possibility of recovering enough of the life and experiences of a person to recount as a narrative in writing. The inner life and experiences of Epiphanius here remain bracketed. What is written, instead, is the story of his performed and constructed persona, in the case of Kim, and his iconicity and celebrity, in the case of Jacobs."
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