ANDREW S. JACOBS
Department of Religious Studies
HMNSS 2620
University of California at Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
(951) 827-4490
andrew.jacobs@ucr.edu
Employment
University of California, Riverside
Associate Professor: 2005-present
Graduate Advisor:
2005-2008
Assistant Professor: 2001-2005
Undergraduate faculty adviser: 2002-2005
Education
Duke University, 1995-2001
PhD: Graduate Program in Religion (2001)
Dissertation: "Imperial Constructions of the Jew in the Early Christian Holy
Land"
Advisor:
Elizabeth Clark
MA: Graduate Program in Religion, 1998
Brown University, 1991-1995
AB: Ancient Studies (with honors),
Comparative Literature (Latin and French)
Awards and Honors
UCR
University Scholar, 2005-2008
Junior Faculty Teaching Award, College of Humanities,
Arts, and Social Sciences, UCR, 2005
Center for Ideas and Society (UC Riverside)
Residential Fellow, Spring 2003: Religion, Magic, and
Science: The Negotiation of Modern Boundaries in Ancient Societies
Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship,
2000-2001
Katherine Sterns Dissertation Fellowship (Duke University), 2000-2001 (declined)
Joseph Callaway Student Essay Prize (ASOR), 2000
Society of Biblical Literature Regional Scholar, 1999
Kenneth Willis Clarke Student Essay Prize (SBL), 1998
James B. Duke Fellowship, 1995-1999
Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fellowship, 1995-1998
Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies (honorary), 1995-1996
Jacob K. Javits Fellowship (alternate), 1995-1996
Teaching
University of California, Riverside
Introduction to the Bible
Introduction to Western Religions
Pilgrimage in Religious Traditions
Christian Hagiography (graduate seminar)
Religion and Representations: Travel Texts (graduate seminar)
Asceticism (graduate seminar)
Duke University Department of Religion
Introduction to Christianity
Introduction to Judaism
Publications
Books
Remains of the Jews: The Holy
Land and Christian Empire in Late Antiquity
(Stanford University Press, 2004)
Christianity in Late Antiquity, 300-450 CE: A Reader (editor, with Bart D. Ehrman) (Oxford University Press, 2003)
In progress: Christ Circumcised: A Study in Early Christian History and Difference
Articles, Essays, and Invited Chapters
"The Kindest Cut: Christ's Circumcision and the Signs of Early Christian Identity," Jewish Studies Quarterly, forthcoming.
"Blood Will Out: Jesus Circumcision and Early Christian Interpretation of Exodus 4:24-26," Henoch 30 (2008), forthcoming.
"Jews and Christians," in The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies. Ed. Susan Ashbrook Harvey and David G. Hunter. Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2008.
"Dialogic Differences: (De-)Judaizing Jesus' Circumcision," Journal of Early Christian Stutides 15 (2007): 291-335.
"'Papinian Commands One Thing, Our Paul Another':Roman Christians and Jewish Law in the Collatio Legum Mosaicarum et Romanarum," in Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome, ed. Clifford Ando and Jörg Rüpke (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2006), pp. 85-99.
"'Her Own Proper Kinship': Marriage, Class, and Women in the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles." In A Feminist Companion to the New Testament Apocrypha. Ed. Amy-Jill Levine with Maria Mayo Robbins (London: T. & T. Clark, 2006), pp. 18-46.
"A Jew's Jew: Paul and the Early Christian Problem of Jewish Origins," Journal of Religion 86 (2006): 258-86.
"Gospel Thrillers," Postscripts: The Journal of Sacred Texts and Contemporary Worlds 1 (2005): 125-42.
"'Let him guard pietas: Early Christian Exegesis and the Ascetic Family." Journal of Early Christian Studies 11 (2003): 265-81.
"Fathers Know Best? Christian Families in the Age of Asceticism" (with Rebecca Krawiec). Journal of Early Christian Studies 11 (2003): 257-63.
“The Lion and the Lamb: Reconsidering ‘Jewish-Christian Relations’ in Antiquity.” In The Ways that Never Parted: Jews and Christians in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Ed. Adam H. Becker and Annette Yoshiko Reed. Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism 95. Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 2003, pp. 95-118; repr. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2007.
“The Remains of the Jew: Imperial Christian Identity in the Late Ancient Holy Land.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 33 (2003): 23-45.
“‘The Most Beautiful Jewesses in the Land’: Imperial Travel in The Early Christian Holy Land.” Religion 32 (2002): 205-25.
"The Place of the Biblical Jew in the Early Christian Holy Land." Studia Patristica 38 (2001): 417-24.
"Writing Demetrias: Ascetic Logic in Ancient Christianity." Church History 69 (2000): 719-48.
"The Disorder of Books: Priscillian's Canonical Defense of Apocrypha." Harvard Theological Review 93 (2000):135-59.
"Visible Ghosts and Invisible Demons: The Place of Jews in Early Christian Terra Sancta" in Galilee Through the Centuries: Confluence of Cultures (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 1999), ed. Eric M. Meyers, pp. 359-76.
"A Family Affair: Marriage, Class, and Ethics in the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles." Journal of Early Christian Studies 7 (1999): 105-38.
"'Solomon's Salacious Song': Foucault's Author Function and the Early Christian Interpretation of the Canticum Canticorum." Medieval Encounters 4 (1998): 1-23.
Book reviews in: Archaeology Odyssey, Church History, Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews (on-line), Journal of Early Christian Studies, Journal of Biblical Literature, Review of Biblical Literature (on-line); Journal of Religious History; Journal of Roman Studies
Conference Papers
"Passing: Jesus' Circumcision and Strategic Self-Sacrifice" (Scheduled for "What the Gods Demand: Blood Sacrifice in Mediterranean Antiquity," Boston University, 2008)
"Passing: Jesus' Human Charade" (Scheduled for Society of Biblical Literature, 2008)
"Between the Lines: Jesus' Circumcision and Early Christian Commentary" (North American Patristics Society, 2008)
"Ps.-Amphilochius's In circumcisionem (BHG 261): Early Evidence for the Feast of the Circumcision?" (Fifteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies, 2007)
"'What Has Rome to do with Bethlehem?' Cultural Capital(s) and Religious Imperialism in the Origenist Controversy." Jerome of Stridon: Religion, Culture, Society, and Literature in Late Antiquity International Conference (Cardiff University, July 13-16, 2006)
"Let us be Circumcised! Commemorating Christ's Circumcision in Late Antiquity" (North American Patristics Society, 2006)
"Gospel Thrillers" (North American Patristics Society, 2005)
"'The Poverty of the Law': Christ's Circumcision, Jewish-Christianity, and the Hybridization of Ancient Religious Identities" (Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature, 2004)
"Respondent: Jewish-Christian Relations/Interactions in the History of Christianity" (Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature, 2004)
"The Kindest Cut of All: Christ's Circumcision and the Boundaries of Early Christian Identity" (North American Patristics Society Annual Meeting, 2004)
"'It shall be a sign': The Fathers on Jesus' Circumcision" (Fourteenth International Oxford Conference on Patristic Studies, 2003)
“A Jew’s Jew: A Pauline Epithet and the Early Christian Problem of Jewish Origins” (Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature, 2002)
“Respondent: The Christianization of Marriage and Family in the Late Roman Aristocracy” (Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature, 2002)
“Priscillian and Apocrypha.” Panel Presentation on Parabiblical Literature (Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins at the Society of Biblical Literature, 2002)
“The Invention of the Jew in the Early Christian Holy Land.” Promised Lands: The Bible, Christian Missions, and Colonial Histories in Latin Christendom from the Late Roman Empire to the European Settlement of North America. 32nd Annual Medieval Workshop, University of British Columbia (Thursday 24 – Saturday 26 October 2002).
“Beautiful Jewesses in the Synagogues of Satan: Desire and Ambivalence in the Ancient Christian Holy Land.” Drew Colloquium in Transdisciplinary Theological Studies 2002: Com/Promised Lands: The Colonial, the Postcolonial, and the Theological (September 28-29, 2002).
"The Lion and the Lamb: Reconsidering 'Jewish-Christian Relations' in Antiquity" (Annual Meeting of the AAR/SBL, 2001)
"The Lion and the Lamb: Rethinking Rhetoric, Reality, and 'Jewish-Christian Relations'" (North American Patristics Society Annual Meeting, 2001)
"The Remains of the Jew: Imperial Christian Identity in Late Ancient Jerusalem" (Annual Meeting of the AAR/SBL, 2000)
"Fathers Know Best? Late Ancient Christianity and Family Studies" (with Rebecca Krawiec of SUNY-Buffalo; Annual Meeting of the AAR/SBL, 2000)
"Jewish Knowledge and the Making of a Christian Empire" (North American Patristics Society Annual Meeting, 2000)
"Hagiopolis Basilike: Jews, Christians, and Imperial Power in the Early Byzantine Holy Land" (Southeastern Regional Meeting of the AAR/SBL/ASOR, 2000)
"'When in doubt ask the Jews': The Judaeus Biblicus and Biblical Interpretation in the Early Christian Holy Land" (Annual Meeting of the AAR/SBL,1999)
"The Place of the Biblical Jew in the Early Christian Holy Land" (Thirteenth International Oxford Conference in Patristic Studies, 1999)
"The Disorder of Books: Priscillian's Canonical Defense of Apocrypha" (Southeastern Regional Meeting of the AAR/SBL/ASOR,1999)
"'The Most Beautiful Jewesses in the Country': Imperial Visions of the Christian Holy Land" (Annual Meeting of the AAR/SBL, 1998)
"Jerome, Tully, and Barabbas: Translation and the Intellectual History of the Origenist Controversy" (North American Patristics Society Annual Meeting, 1998)
"'A Family Affair': Marriage, Class, and Ethics in the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles" (Southeastern Regional Meeting of the AAR/SBL, 1998)
"'Solomon's Salacious Song': Foucault's Author Function and the Early Christian Interpretation of the Canticum Canticorum" (North American Patristics Society Annual Meeting, 1997)
Invited Lectures and Presentations
Claremont Graduate University, Duke University, Brown University, McMaster University, Indiana University
Other
Professional Responsibilities
Advisory Board, Journal of Early Christian Studies,
2006-present.
Acting North American co-Editor, Religion, 2002-2003.
Editorial Board Member, Religion, 2001-2005.
Editorial
Assistant, Journal of Early Christian Studies,1998-2001.
Research Assistant for Elizabeth Clark, 1999.
Author of entries for the Watts Children's Dictionary of Religion
(New York: Franklin Watts/Grolier Books, 2001).
Association
Memberships
American Society of Church History,
2001- .
Theta Alpha Kappa (Religious Studies Honor Society), 2001- .
Multi-Campus Research Group in Late Antiquity, 2001- .
Models of Piety in Late Antiquity Group, 2000- .
North American
Patristics Society, 1998- .
Society of Biblical Literature, 1995- .
American Academy of Religion, 1995-2007.
Languages
Modern: French (fluent), German (reading)
Ancient: Latin, Greek, Hebrew (biblical and rabbinic), Aramaic (Palestinian),
Coptic, Syriac
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