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CULTURES OF DEATH: CHRISTIAN MARTYRDOM AND GREEK, ROMAN, AND JEWISH CONCEPTIONS OF DEATH

CULTURES OF DEATH: CHRISTIAN MARTYRDOM AND GREEK, ROMAN, AND JEWISH CONCEPTIONS OF DEATH - Professor Candida Moss, University of Notre Dame

10/17/2012
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Carpenter 013
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Lectures & Seminars
Candida Moss specializes in Biblical studies and early Christian history, she holds an undergraduate degree in Theology from the University of Oxford, a Masters degree in Biblical Studies from Yale Divinity School, and a doctorate in Religious Studies from Yale University. She has published four books and over twenty-five articles and essays on various aspects of Biblical and early Christian literature, history, and thought. An award- winning author, her first book, The Other Christs: Imitating Jesus in Ancient Christian Ideologies of Martyrdom (Oxford, 2010) was awarded the 2011 John Templeton Award for Theological Promise and she has been the recipient of grants and awards from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the John Templeton Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She currently serves as co-chair of the Healthcare and Disability in the Ancient Near East section of the international and national meetings of the Society of Biblical Literature, co-Chair of the "Inventing Christianity" consultation of the Society of Biblical Literature, and on the steering committee of the "Apostolic Fathers" consultation of the International meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. She has consulted for, appeared in, and hosted documentaries for the National Geographic Channel, the History Channel, and the Discovery Channel and has lectured nationally and internationally at Yale, Duke, Emory, Columbia, University of Chicago, University of Oxford, University of Durham, Von Humboldt University in Berlin, to name a few. She is currently working on a monograph on the resurrection of the body tentatively entitled "Heavenly Bodies: Resurrecting Perfection in Early Christianity" for Yale University Press and a commentary on Second Century Martyrdom Accounts for the Hermeneia Commentary series.
Department of Classics
Candida Moss
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