Becker, Adam
Associate Professor
of
Religious Studies, Classics
Ph.D. 2004 (Religion), Princeton University; M.St. 2001 (Syriac Studies), Oxford University; M.A. 1997 (Classics), New York University; B.A. 1994 (Classics), Columbia University.
Arts and Science Office Address:
Program in Religious Studies, 726 Broadway, Room 554
Phone: 212-998-8940
Email:
“Christian Society,” in Oxford Handbook of Social Relations in the Roman World, ed. Michael Peachin (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2010).
“The Comparative Study of ‘Scholasticism’ in Late Antique Mesopotamia: Rabbis and East Syrians,” AJS Review 34 (2010): 91-113.
“Martyrdom, Religious Difference, and ‘Fear’ as a Category of Piety in the Sasanian Empire: The Case of the Martyrdoms of Gregory and of Yazdpaneh,” Journal of Late Antiquity 2.2 (Fall 2009): 300-336.
Sources for the Study of the School of Nisibis (Translated Texts for Historians 50; Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2008).
“The Ancient Near East in the Late Antique Near East: Syriac Christian Appropriation of the Biblical Past,” in Antiquity in Antiquity: Jewish and Christian Pasts in the Greco-Roman World, ed. Gregg Gardner and Kevin Osterloh (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2008), 394-415.
Fear of God and the Beginning of Wisdom: The School of Nisibis and the Development of Christian Scholastic Culture in Late Antique Mesopotamia. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.
"The Discourse on Priesthood (BL Add 18295 137b-140b): An Anti-Jewish text on the Abrogation of the Israelite Priesthood," Journal of Semitic Studies 51.1 (2006): 85-115.
"The Dynamic Reception of Theodore of Mopsuestia in the Sixth Century: Greek, Syriac, and Latin," in Greek Literature in Late Antiquity: Dynamism, Didacticism, Classicism, ed. Scott Fitzgerald Johnson (Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, 2006), 29-47.
"Doctoring the Past in the Present: E. A. Wallis Budge, the Discourse on Magic, and the Colonization of Iraq," in History of Religions 44.3. 2005: 175-215.
"Bringing the Heavenly Academy Down to Earth: Approaches to the Imagery of Divine Pedagogy in the East-Syrian Tradition," in Heavenly Realms and Earthly Realities in Late Antique Religions, eds. Ra'anan Boustan and Annette Yoshiko Reed. Cambridge University Press, 2004: 174-94.
The Ways That Never Parted: Jews and Christians from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages. Co-edited with Annette Yoshiko Reed. Mohr Siebeck, 2003; reprinted, Augsburg Fortress Press, 2007.
"Beyond the Spatial and Temporal Limes: Questioning the 'Parting of the Ways' Outside the Roman Empire," in the aforementioned volume, 343-362.
“Anti-Judaism and Care of the Poor in Aphrahat’s Demonstration 20,” Journal of Early Christian Studies 10.3 (2002): 305-327.
Developer and Editor of “Persian Martyr Acts in Syriac: Texts and Translation.” First volume: Sebastian P. Brock, The History of the Holy Mar Ma‘in with a Guide to the Persian Martyr Acts: Fascicle 1 (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2008).
