
25/07/2025
𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲, 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗧𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗟𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗔𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻
𝗘𝘀𝘀𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗛𝗼𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗗𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗱 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗸𝗸𝗲
Edited by Ellen Muehlberger & Bradley K. Storin
More info: https://bit.ly/3Uzv9vK
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
BRADLEY K. STORIN and ELLEN MUEHLBERGER
Purification in the Mud: Protology and Symbolic Purity in Iamblichus and the Greco-Egyptian Magical Papyri
BRIAN ALT
Monks Making Magic: A Case Study of Marian Iconography in P. Heid. Inv. Kopt. 685
MICHAEL BESHAY
Narrative Construction from Interpretive Clue: The Secret Book according to John and the Gospel of Mark
CHARLES BOBERTZ
Ancient Asceticism and Myths of Divine R**e
AUSTIN BUSCH
An Arabic Miracle of Saint Shenoute: Hagiographical Devotion and Patriarchal Patronage in Medieval Old Cairo
STEPHEN J. DAVIS
Lists and Lairs: The Legend of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesos in Egyptian Christianity
GEORGIA FRANK
On the Gender of Demons
DAVID FRANKFURTER
New Approaches to Martyrdom: Seeing Living Martyrdom in Augustine of Hippo and Caesarius of Arles
DIANE S. FRUCHTMAN
Teacher and Student as Ideal Ascetics in the Astrological Handbook of Vettius Valens
J. ALBERT HARRILL
Made by Mistake: Concern for Ritual Error as Mandaean Asceticism
JENNIFER HART
Death on (well, near) the Nile: Death as Ascetic Practice in Tales of Egyptian Monks
REBECCA KRAWIEC
‘Not about Orthodoxy and Faith’: Eunomian Polemic, the Valences of Asceticism, and Ethnic Argument in Philostorgius’s Church History
DAVID MALDONADO RÍVERA
Caveat: The Term ‘Asceticism’ and the History of Early Christianity
ELLEN MUEHLBERGER
Debating the Philosophers: The Monastic Construction of a New Philosophical Identity in Late Ancient Egypt
TOLA RODRICK
Reconsidering the ‘Standards of their Time’: Violence, Late Antique Monastic Leadership, and Modern Historiography
CAROLINE SCHROEDER
Early Palestinian Passion Piety and the Monastic Origins of Marian Lament at Mar Saba
STEPHEN SHOEMAKER
On the Death Curse in Late Antique Hagiography
BRADLEY K. STORIN
Ascetic Practice as Political Praxis: Imperial Asceticism in the Chronicle of John, Bishop of Nikiu
FELEGE-SELAM SOLOMON YIRGA
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David Brakke’s Curriculum Vitae