Christine Shepardson, assistant professor of Early Christianity in the Department of Religious Studies, has had a particularly prolific year, with articles appearing in three of the top journals in her field, and culminating with last month’s release of her first book, Anti-Judaism and Christian Orthodoxy: Ephrem’s Hymns in Fourth-Century Syria. She is also a 2008 recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend and a Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society, which allowed her to continue her current research in southern Turkey this past summer.
Recent Publications
Anti-Judaism and Christian Orthodoxy: Ephrem’s Hymns in Fourth-Century Syria, (CUA, Patristic Monographs Series, 2008)
“Burying Babylas: Meletius and the Christianization of Antioch,” in Studia Patristica, v. 37, XV International Conference on Patristic Studies (Peeters: Louvain, forthcoming)
“Syria, Syriac, Syrian: Negotiating East and West in Late Antiquity,” in The Blackwell Companion to Late Antiquity (Blackwell, forthcoming 2008)
“Paschal Politics: Deploying the Temple’s Destruction against Fourth-Century Judaizers,” Vigiliae Christianae 62.2: 233-260 (2008)
“Defining the Boundaries of Orthodoxy: Eunomius in the Anti-Jewish Polemic of his Cappadocian Opponents,” Church History 76.4: 699-723 (2007)
“Controlling Contested Places: John Chrysostom’s Adversus Iudaeos Homilies and the
Spatial Politics of Religious Controversy,” Journal of Early Christian Studies, 15.4: 483-516 (2007)