Our Visiting Fellow will be Professor Kim Haines-Eitzen from Cornell University. She writes on the social history of the scribes who copied early Christian texts, and is currently working on mini codices and issues of literacy in the early Christian world.
- Department Chair,
Associate Professor
- Varieties of early Christianity and early Judaism; Greco-Roman religions; gender studies
Kim Haines-Eitzen (Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1997) is Associate Professor of early Christianity and early Judaism and Chair for the Department of Near Eastern Studies.
Her Guardians of Letters: Literacy, Power and the Transmitters of Early Christian Literature> (Oxford University Press, 2000) is a social history of the scribes who copied Christian texts during the second and third centuries. She is currently working on another book that deals with the intersection of gender, text transmission, and literacy in early Christianity.
Selected Articles
“Textual Communities in Late-Antique Christianity” (in progress, solicited for A Companion to Late Antiquity, ed. Philip Rousseau [Basil Blackwell]).
“An Analysis of the Hand of the Freer Gospels Codex” (in progress, solicited for The Freer Biblical Manuscripts: Fresh Studies of the Greek Biblical Manuscripts Housed in the Freer Gallery, ed. L. W. Hurtado).
“Coptic Language” (Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia, ed. Josef Meri [Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, 2006]).
“The Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles on Papyrus: Revisiting the Question of Readership and Audience” (forthcoming in New Testament Manuscripts: Their Texts and Their World, ed. Thomas J. Kraus and Tobias Niklas; TENT 2; Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2005/6).
“Imagining the Library at Alexandria” (completed article for the collected volume Cosmopolitan Alexandria, ed. Deborah Starr [currently under review at Duke, Columbia, Minnesota, SUNY, and Syracuse University Presses]).
“Engendering Palimpsests: Gender, Asceticism, and the Transmission of the Acts of Paul and Thecla,” in The Early Christian Book, ed. William Klingshirn and Linda Safran. Catholic University of America, 2005.
“Ancient Judaism Imagined Through the Lens of Early Christianity: The Work of James Rendel Harris, 1852-1941,” in Studies and Texts in Jewish History and Culture. University Press of Maryland/CDL Press, 2003.
“‘Girls Trained in the Art of Beautiful Writing’: Female Scribes in Roman Antiquity and Early Christianity,” Journal of Early Christian Studies 6 (1998) 629-646. |
