AHMA Participating Faculty
Susanna Elm, D.Phil. (Oxford University, 1986)
Associate Professor of History and Religious Studies
Early Christianity and Late Antiquity
elm@berkeley.edu
Selected Works:
"An Alleged Book-theft in Fourth Century Egypt: P. Lips. 43." Studia Patristica 18, 1989
"Perceptions of Jerusalem Pilgrimage as Reflected in Two Early Sources on Female Pilgrimage (3rd and 4th c. A.D)." Studia Patristica 20, 1989
Virgins of God. The Making of Asceticism in Late Antiquity, Oxford Classical Monograph Series, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994; Paperback, 1996
The "Holy Man" Revisited (1971-1997): Charisma, Texts, and Communities in Late Antiquity Edited by S. Elm and N. Janowitz. Special Issue Journal of Early Christian Studies 6: 3, 1998
Orthodoxie, christianisme, histoire = Orthodoxy, Christianity, History. Edited by S. Elm, É. Rebillard et A. Romano. Collection de l�École française de Rome 270. Rome: Bibl. École française de Rome, 2000
Medical Challenges for the New Millennium - An Interdisciplinary Task. Edited by S. N. Willich and S. Elm. New York/Amsterdam: Kluver, 2001
"The Dog that Did Not Bark: Doctrine and Patriarchal Authority in the Conflict between Theophilus of Alexandria and John Chrysostom of Constantinople." In L. Ayres and G. Jones (eds.), Christian Origins I, (London: Routledge, 1998), 68-93.
"Sklave Gottes Stigmata, Bischöfe und anti-häretische Propaganda im vierten Jahrhundert." Historische Anthropologie 8: 3 (1999): 415-463.
"Inscriptions and Conversions. Gregory of Nazianzus on Baptism." In Anthony Grafton and Kenneth Mills (eds), Conversion in Late Antiquity, Princeton: Princeton University Press, forthcoming.
Sons of Hellenism, Fathers of the Church: Gregory of Nazianzus, Themistius, Julian and the Christianization of the Late Antique Elites, in preparation.