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Last Updated January 23, 2019

Jason von Ehrenkrook, Ph.D. (University of Michigan, 2009)

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

  • 2014-Present  Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Department of Classics and Religious Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston
  • 2010-2014  Perlow Lecturer in Classical Judaism, Department of Religious Studies, University of Pittsburgh
  • 2009-2010  Post-Doctoral Fellow, Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Michigan

PUBLICATIONS

Books

  • 2011  Sculpting Idolatry in Flavian Rome: (An)Iconic Rhetoric in the Writings of Flavius Josephus. Early Judaism and Its Literature 33. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature (paperback); Leiden: Brill, 2012 (hardback).
    • Reviewed in Bryn Mawr Classical Review, The Journal for the Study of the New Testament, Henoch, Shofar, The Expository Times, Reviews of the Enoch Seminar, Review of Biblical Literature, Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses, Journal of the American Oriental Society, and Journal of Jewish Studies

Edited Volumes

  • 2018  Wisdom Poured Out Like Water: Studies on Jewish and Christian Antiquity in Honor of Gabriele Boccaccini. Berlin: De Gruyter.
  • 2007  Enoch and the Messiah Son of Man: Revisiting the Book of Parables. Associate Editor with Gabriele Boccaccini. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.

Articles/Chapters

  • 2018  “Christian Paideia and the Politics of Empire in Eunapius’ Vitae Sophistarum.” Pages 593-604 in Jason von Ehrenkrook, et al. (eds.), Wisdom Poured Out Like Water: Studies on Jewish and Christian Antiquity in Honor of Gabriele Boccaccini. Berlin: De Gruyter.
  • 2017  “The One Book We Can Be Pretty Sure Donald Trump Will Quote When He Is Sworn in as President.” History News Network, January 15, 2017.
  • 2017  “Christians, Pagans, and the Politics of Paideia in Late Antiquity.” Pages 255-266 in Jason M. Zurawski and Gabriele Boccaccini, eds., Second Temple Jewish ‘Paideia’ in Context. Berlin: De Gruyter.
  • 2013  “The Afterlife in Philo and Josephus.” Pages 97-118 in J. Harold Ellens, ed., Heaven, Hell, and the Afterlife: Eternity in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Volume 1. Praeger.
  • 2012  “The Specter of Judeo-Christianity and the Politics of Gender Deviancy: From St. Paul of Tarsus to St. Paul, MN.” Relegere: Studies in Religion and Reception 2.2: 253-263.
  • 2011  “Effeminacy in the Shadow of Empire: The Politics of Transgressive Gender in Flavius Josephus.” The Jewish Quarterly Review 101: 145–63.
  • 2011  “Image and Desire in the Wisdom of Solomon.” Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture 7: 41–50.
  • 2008  “Sculpture, Space and the Poetics of Idolatry in Josephus’ Bellum Judaicum.” Journal for the Study of Judaism 38: 170–91.”
  • 2007  “The Parables of Enoch and the Messiah Son of Man: A Bibliography, 1773–2006.” Pages 513-539 in Gabriele Boccaccini, ed., Enoch and the Messiah Son of Man, 513–39. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.

Book Reviews

  • 2012  Catherine Hezser, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Daily Life in Roman Palestine. In Reviews of the Enoch Seminar 2012.09.04.
  • 2009  N. Kokkinos, ed., The World of the Herods. In Henoch 31.2: 432.
  • 2008  A. Kirk and T. Thatcher, eds., Memory, Tradition, and Text: Uses of the Past in Early Christianity. In Journal of the American Oriental Society 128.1: 159–61.
  • 2006  J. S. Anderson, The Internal Diversification of Second Temple Judaism: An Introduction to the Second Temple Period. In Henoch 28.1: 161–64.
  • 2006  S. Fine, Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman World: Toward a New Jewish Archaeology. In Henoch 28.1: 165–68.

Works in Progress

PRESENTATIONS

  • 2018  “Plowshares to Swords: FDR, Scripture, and the Politics of War.” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, “Religion and Politics” Program Unit. Denver, November 20.
  • 2017  “Trump’s Temple Tantrum: The Temple Cleansing Story in American Political Discourse.” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, “Use, Impact, and Influence of the Bible” Program Unit. Boston, November 19.
  • 2016  “Roosevelt’s Bible: Creating Order out of Local and Global Chaos.” Eastern International Region of the American Academy of Religion Conference: “Globalizing the Human(ities).” University of Pittsburgh, May 7.
  • 2015  “The President’s Bible: Inaugural Addresses and the Politics of Scripture.” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, “Use, Impact, and Influence of the Bible” Program Unit. Atlanta, November 24.
  • 2015  “Christians, Pagans, and the Politics of Paideia in Late Antiquity.” Fifth Enoch Seminar Nangeroni Meeting: Second Temple Jewish Paideia in its Ancient Near Eastern and Hellenistic Contexts. June 30-July 4.
  • 2014  “Christians, Pagans, and the Politics of Paideia in Late Antiquity.” Department of Classical Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston, March 26.
  • 2013  “Christian Paideia and the Decline of the Roman Empire in Eunapius’ Vitae Sophistarum.” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Program Unit “Greco-  Roman Religions.” Baltimore, November 26.
  • 2013  “CMan Up!: Jewish Masculinities in Greco-Roman Antiquity.” Department of Religious Studies Colloquium, University of Pittsburgh, April 10.
  • 2011  “The Specter of Judeo-Christianity and the Politics of Gender Deviancy: From St. Paul of Tarsus to St. Paul, MN.” Symposium: Revisiting the ‘Judeo-Christian’ Tradition, Virginia Tech University, October 29.
  • 2010  “Navigating a Forest of Idols: Jews and Cult Statues in Greco-Roman Antiquity.” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Program Unit “Art and Religions of Antiquity.” Atlanta, November 23.
  • 2010  “Jews in a World Full of Gods.” Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies, Portland State University, February 24.
  • 2010  “Dangerous Images: The Jewish Idol Polemic and the Construction of Material Alterity.” Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies Colloquia, University of Michigan, March 25.
  • 2009  “Imagining the Aniconic Jew: Past and Present.” Jews and Material Culture Workshop, Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Michigan, September 23.
  • 2008  “Monsters in Drag: Effeminizing Tyranny in Josephus’ Bellum Judaicum and Greco-Roman Political Invective.” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, cosponsored panel: “Gender, Sexuality and the Bible” with the “LGBT/Queer Hermeneutics Group.” Boston, November 22.
  • 2007  “Statues, Space and the Poetics of Idolatry in Josephus’ Jewish War.” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, “Hellenistic Judaism” Program Unit. San Diego, November 18.
  • 2007  “In the Shadow of Venus: Sculpture, Space and the Politics of Identity in Josephus’ Jewish War.” Boundary Crossing and Cultural Exchange Workshop, University of Michigan, April 18.
  • 2005  Respondent to Shaye Cohen, “Beginnings of Jewishness.” Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan, October 12.
  • 2004  Respondent to George Nickelsburg, “Recent Trends in the Study of 1 Enoch.” Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan, October 20.

 COURSES TAUGHT

University of Massachusetts Boston

  • Symbol, Myth, Ritual: Cultural Studies in Religion
  • Jerusalem: Sacred Space, Contested Space
  • Myth in the Ancient Near East
  • Introduction to the Hebrew Bible
  • Introduction to the New Testament
  • Apocalypse and the End of the World

University of Pittsburgh

  • Major Biblical Themes
  • Jews and Judaism in the Ancient World
  • Israel in the Biblical Age
  • Jewish-Christian Relations
  • Jesus and Judaism
  • Myth in the Ancient Near East
  • Jerusalem: History and Imagination
  • Bible and Film
  • Introduction to the Arts and Sciences

University of Detroit Mercy

  • Jesus and the Gospels

University of Michigan

  • Jesus and the Gospels
  • Introduction to the New Testament