Life: The Natural History of an Early Christian Universe (U California Press, 2024) immerses the reader in the cosmic sea of existences that made up the late ancient Mediterranean world. Loosely structured around events in the biography of one early Christian writer and traveler, this book weaves together the philosophical, religious, sensory, and scientific worlds of the later Roman Empire to tell the story of how human lives were lived under different natural and spiritual laws than those we now know today. Mike Chin is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of California Davis.
In Prophets and Prophecy in the Late Antique Near East (Cambridge UP, 2023), Jae Han investigates how various Late Antique Near Eastern communities—Jews, Christians, Manichaeans, and philosophers—discussed prophets and revelation, among themselves and against each other. Jae Han is Assistant Professor in Religious Studies and the program for Judaic Studies at Brown University
Unfinished Christians: Ritual Objects and Silent Subjects in Late Antiquity (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) explores the sensory and affective dimensions of ordinary Christians who assembled for rituals.