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Memory and Martyrdom: A Forum Honoring the Work of Elizabeth Castelli
Ancient Jew Review
May 13, 2026
Memory and Martyrdom: A Forum Honoring the Work of Elizabeth Castelli
Ancient Jew Review
May 13, 2026

At the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, the Inventing Christianity Unit sponsored a panel honoring the work of Elizabeth Castelli, highlighting her landmark 2004 book, Martyrdom and Memory.

Ancient Jew Review
May 13, 2026

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A Memory of Violence: Sixth-Century “Culture Making” in a Heretical Empire
May 18, 2026
Christine Shepardson
A Memory of Violence: Sixth-Century “Culture Making” in a Heretical Empire
May 18, 2026
Christine Shepardson

In her groundbreaking 2004 book Martyrdom and Memory: Early Christian Culture Making, Elizabeth Castelli memorably shifted our gaze from the martyrs’ torn bodies to their hagiographers, requiring us to consider how these narrators shaped their stories and to what ends, with a firm eye on such studies’ relevance for our own world.

May 18, 2026
Christine Shepardson
Memory and Martyrdom: A Forum Honoring the Work of Elizabeth Castelli
May 13, 2026
Ancient Jew Review
Memory and Martyrdom: A Forum Honoring the Work of Elizabeth Castelli
May 13, 2026
Ancient Jew Review

At the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, the Inventing Christianity Unit sponsored a panel honoring the work of Elizabeth Castelli, highlighting her landmark 2004 book, Martyrdom and Memory.

May 13, 2026
Ancient Jew Review
On Being Read: Reflections on Martyrdom and Memory
May 13, 2026
Elizabeth Castelli
On Being Read: Reflections on Martyrdom and Memory
May 13, 2026
Elizabeth Castelli

In responding to these papers, I have not followed the order in which they appeared on the program, but I have rearranged them in order to try to highlight and feature their contributions to our broader discussion about martyrdom in early, late ancient, and contemporary Christianity.

May 13, 2026
Elizabeth Castelli
Do Martyrs Matter in Martyrdom? Charlie Kirk as a Case Study
May 13, 2026
Paul Middleton
Do Martyrs Matter in Martyrdom? Charlie Kirk as a Case Study
May 13, 2026
Paul Middleton

Do martyrs matter in martyrdom? This may seem like a question with an obvious answer. How could they not? Surely martyrdom is all about the martyrs, and without martyrs, there would be no martyrdom?

May 13, 2026
Paul Middleton
Reconceptualizing Martyrdom in Late Antiquity: A Martyrial Lens and Living Martyrs
May 13, 2026
Julia Nations-Quiroz
Reconceptualizing Martyrdom in Late Antiquity: A Martyrial Lens and Living Martyrs
May 13, 2026
Julia Nations-Quiroz
May 13, 2026
Julia Nations-Quiroz
Histories of the Future
May 13, 2026
Ellen Muehlberger
Histories of the Future
May 13, 2026
Ellen Muehlberger

She has made clear, across a welter of publications, that in the study of early Christianity, the first matter a scholar needs to investigate is the parameter of time: how is it working in the text under study and how is it working for the reader, as she studies the text?

May 13, 2026
Ellen Muehlberger
Jewish Cultures and Material Artifacts
May 8, 2026
Karen Stern
Jewish Cultures and Material Artifacts
May 8, 2026
Karen Stern

“This volume, it seems, substantively demonstrates how it is possible to study Jewish cultures (to borrow David Biale’s preferred terminology) as a plurality, while allowing readers to consider—in their own analyses—what might be the unified or unifying elements that draw Jews from different regions, of different life experiences and statuses, into common cultural webs.”

May 8, 2026
Karen Stern
The Limits of Jewish Identity
May 7, 2026
John J. Collins
The Limits of Jewish Identity
May 7, 2026
John J. Collins

“To deny the Jewish origin of a work like the Similitudes is to suppress an aspect of pre-rabbinic Judaism because it would later prove more congenial to Christians than to rabbinic Judaism.”

May 7, 2026
John J. Collins
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A Prophecy of Empire: The Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius from Late Antique Mesopotamia to the Global Medieval Imagination
Evan Bradley Schafer
May 11, 2026
A Prophecy of Empire: The Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius from Late Antique Mesopotamia to the Global Medieval Imagination
Evan Bradley Schafer
May 11, 2026

Christopher Bonura’s treatment of Pseudo-Methodius’ origins and return to the source itself, shorn of centuries of interpretive baggage, lays a new foundation for future scholarship on this generative source.

Evan Bradley Schafer
May 11, 2026
The Fourth Synoptic Gospel: John’s Knowledge of Matthew, Mark, and Luke
Tyler Blaine Wilson
April 8, 2026
The Fourth Synoptic Gospel: John’s Knowledge of Matthew, Mark, and Luke
Tyler Blaine Wilson
April 8, 2026

In The Fourth Synoptic Gospel, Mark Goodacre challenges this perspective and attempts to demonstrate that the author of the fourth gospel was not only aware of the Synoptic Gospels but also used them in the writing of their gospel text.

Tyler Blaine Wilson
April 8, 2026
Seneca’s Affective Cosmos: Subjectivity, Feeling, and Knowledge in the Natural Questions and Beyond
Morgan Hundley
April 6, 2026
Seneca’s Affective Cosmos: Subjectivity, Feeling, and Knowledge in the Natural Questions and Beyond
Morgan Hundley
April 6, 2026

Graf serves as an able guide for readers through the complex ideas of Stoicism, Seneca’s philosophical vision, and affect theory. Readers less familiar with Senecan ideas will likely find this book a helpful introduction.

Morgan Hundley
April 6, 2026
Unfinished Christians: Ritual Objects and Silent Subjects in Late Antiquity
Ethan Laster
April 1, 2026
Unfinished Christians: Ritual Objects and Silent Subjects in Late Antiquity
Ethan Laster
April 1, 2026

In Unfinished Christians, Frank focuses on literary records produced in and for shared spaces, liturgical and otherwise, where ordinary Christians would have gathered for various religious rites.

Ethan Laster
April 1, 2026
Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae, Volume V: Galilaea and Northern Regions
D. Clint Burnett
March 9, 2026
Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae, Volume V: Galilaea and Northern Regions
D. Clint Burnett
March 9, 2026

The intended audience for CIIP 5 consists of scholars specializing in the study of early Judaism, early to late antique Christianity, and the early Islamic period. However, given that every inscription is translated into English, non-specialists interested in any of these time periods in this location will benefit from this epigraphic collection.

D. Clint Burnett
March 9, 2026

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