Articles

Forthcoming/Under Review

“A Ptolemaic Petition of a ‘Judeo-Egyptian’ (Ἰουδαιοαιγύπτιος).” Journal of Jewish Studies (under review; with Kerry Hull).

“Two New Ptolemaic Inscriptions from Kom Aushim (Karanis).” Chronique d’Égypte (under review)

“Three Greek Ostraca in the Brigham Young University Collection.” Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete (under review)

“Greek Fragments from Cave 7” in Marty Abegg (ed.), The Dead Sea Scrolls Fragments: New Edition (Brill; submitted and forthcoming).

“A Coptic Liturgical Stone: An Early Witness to the Benediction of St. Basil” (co-authored with E. O. Yingling) in H. Takla (ed.), Proceedings of the 11th International Coptic Congress (Peeters; submitted and forthcoming).

2024

“Another Receipt for the Poll-Tax from Elephantine.” Pylon: Editions and Studies of Ancient Texts 5 (2024): 1–4.

“The Pauline Writings in Dionysius of Alexandria.” In T. D. Still and D. E. Wilhite (eds.), The Apologists and Paul (London: T&T Clark, 2024), 203–218. 

“Two Christian Funerary Stelae in the Magazine at Fustât (Old Cairo).” Chronique d’Égypte 98 (2023): 326–333 (with Amer El Mesiry). 

“Oxyrhynchus Papyri: Archaeology.” In Christine Helmer et al (eds.), Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception (Berlin: DeGruyter; submitted and forthcoming).

2023

“A Name List on Claudius’s Letter to the Alexandrians (P.Lond. VI 1912).” Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 69 (2023): 87–98.

2021

A Coptic Magical Text for Virginity in Marriage: A Witness to the Practice of Celibate Marriage from Christian Egypt?Harvard Theological Review 114.1 (2021): 118–142 (with Korshi Dosoo).

Eine griechische Votivinschrift im Sankōkan-Museum der Tenri-Universität.” Journal of Epigraphic Studies 4 (2021): 91–98 (with Kerry Hull and Zakarias Gram).

Assessing the Roles of Women in New Syrian Funerary Reliefs in Japanese Collections.” In Mark Ellison, Catherine Gines Taylor, and Carolyn Osiek (eds.), Material Culture and Women’s Religious Experience in Antiquity: An Interdisciplinary Symposium (Lanham, Boulder, New York, London: Lexington Books/Fortress academic, 2021), 147–167.

2020

Un’iscrizione funeraria in greco in triplice copia?Analecta Papyrologica 32 (2020): 201– 212 (with Kerry Hull and Chiara Aliberti).

P.Oxy. 5478. LUKE 2.32–4, 40–42, 24.22–8, 30–38 (𝔓141)” in The Oxyrhynchus Papyri Vol. LXXXIV (London: Egypt Exploration Fund, 2020), 3–9 (with Bruce Griffin).

The Fag el-Gamous Papyrus Fragment.” In Kerry Muhlestein (ed.), Excavations at the Seila Pyramid and Fag el-Gamous Cemetery (Leiden: Brill, 2020), 313–17.

2019

An Inscribed Statue of Tyche in Kyoto, Japan.” Tyche, Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik 34 (2019): 1–4 (with Kerry Hull).

The Ancient South Arabian Collection at the Tokai University (Japan).” Semitica et Classica 12 (2019): 1–14 (with Alessia Prioletta and Kerry Hull).

Two Greek Epitaphs from the Middle Eastern Cultural Center in Tokyo, Japan.” Journal of Epigraphic Studies 2 (2019): 77–84 (with Kerry Hull).

Greek Inscriptions in the Okayama Orient Museum.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 209 (2019): 152–158 (with Kerry Hull).

Scripture as Artefact.” In Paul Blowers and Peter Martens (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Biblical Interpretation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, 7–32.

Zealots.” In Loren T. Stuckenbruck and Daniel M. Gurtner (eds.), T&T Clark Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism, vol. II. (London: T&T Clark, 2019), 817–18 (with H. Wilson- Lemmon).

2018

Two Greek Papyri from the Early Roman Period in the Tokai University Collection.” Bunmei Kenkyu (The Study of Civilization), Tokai Society for the Study of Civilization 37 (2018): 183–192 (with Kerry Hull and Kyoko Yamahana).

Another Letter from the Archive of Phaies: A Ptolemaic Case of quid pro quo.” Ancient Society 48 (2018): 1–8 (with Chiara Aliberti).

The Ancient Greek Papyri of Aichi Prefectural University,” KOTONOHA 187 (2018): 1–5 (with Kerry Hull, in Japanese “愛知県立大学の古代ギリシャのパピルス”).

Another Letter from Antonius Longus to his Mother Nilous.” Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 55 (2018): 45–57 (with Emily Cole and Willeke Wendrich).

Horus, Isis, and the Dark-Eyed Beauty: A Series of Magical Ostraca in the Brigham Young University Collection.” Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 64.1 (2018): 199–259 (with Korshi Dosoo).

Letter with an Order to Arrest.” In Anne Boud’hors, Alain Delattre, Gesa Schenke, Tonio Sebastian Richter, and Georg Schmelz (eds.), COPTICA PALATINA. Koptische Texte aus der Heidelberger Papyrussammlung (P.Heid.Kopt.). Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing, 2018, 69–72.

Epistolary Christianity: A Survey of the Earliest Christian Letters from Egypt.” In Tarek M. Muhammed and Cornelia Römer (eds.), Thought, Culture, and Historiography in Christian Egypt, 284–641 AD. Cambridge, 2018, 129–148.

2017

Two Greek Inscriptions from Karanis.” Tyche, Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik 32 (2017): 1–5 (with Chiara Aliberti).

P.Mich. inv. 4461kr: The Earliest Fragment of the Didascalia CCCXVIII Patrum Nicaenorum.” Journal of Theological Studies, N.S. 68.2 (2017): 607–620.

A Proposal for a New LXX Text among the Cave 7 Fragments.” Revue de Qumran 29.1/109 (2017): 105–117.

An Amulet Containg Acts 9:1.” Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 54 (2017): 31–43.

Some Unpublished Coptic Inscriptions in the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology.” Journal of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies 9 (2017): 67–75.

Three New Fragments from the J. Rendel Harris Collection (Birmingham).” Analecta Papyrologica 28 (2017): 19–27 (with Michael R. Trotter).

2016

A New Jewish Epitaph Commemorating Care for Orphans.” Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman Periods 47 (2016): 310–329.

A New Coptic Epitaph from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology.” Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 53 (2016): 189–198 (with Erik O. Yingling).

Two Greek Letters from the Petrie and Harris Collections.” Analecta Papyrologica 27 (2016): 19–27.

Α Christian Amulet Containing a Doxology with Sketches on the Back.” In T. Derda (et al., eds.), Proceedings of the 27th International Congress of Papyrology, Warsaw, 29 July – 3 August 2013. Vol. II: Subliterary papyri. Documentary papyri. Scribal practices, linguistic matters. Warsaw: The Raphael Taubenschlag Foundation, 2016, 745–754.

The ‘Number of the Beast’: Early Christian Isopsephies and Revelation 13:18.” In Thomas J. Kraus and Michael Sommer (eds.), Book of Seven Seals: The Peculiarity of Revelation, its Manuscripts, Attestation, and Transmission. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2016, 119–135. (co-authored with T. A. Wayment).

P.Birmingham inv. 317: An Addendum to the Fourth-Century Bishops of Oxyrhynchus.” Journal of Juristic Papyrology 44 (2016): 83–91.

2015

New Christian Epitaphs from the Fayum.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 193 (2015): 202–206 (with contributions by Mohamed Hussen).

A New LXX Fragment Containing Job 7:3–4 and 7:9.” Tyndale Bulletin 66.1 (2015): 95–103.

2014

Luke 22:43–44: An Anti-Docetic Interpolation or an Apologetic Omission?TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism 19 (2014): 1–35.

Two Coptic Epitaphs in the Kom Aushim Storage Magazine.” Chronique d’Égypte 89 (2014): 405–411 (with contributions by Mohamed Hussen).

A Jewish Epitaph from the Fayum.” Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman Periods 46 (2014): 182–197.

A Note on a Dedicatory Inscription to the God Soxis from Karanis.” Tyche, Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik 29 (2014): 267–268.

The Message and the Medium: Some Observations on Epistolary Communication in Late Antiquity.” Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism 10 (2014): 24–67.

Coptic New Testament Fragments in the Brigham Young University Collection.” Journal of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies 6 (2014): 59–88 (co-authored with Thomas A. Wayment).

The Curious Case of Kom Aushim Inv. no. 45: The Rediscovery of a Fragment from a Lost Inscription?Tyche, Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik 28 (2014): 21–26 (with contributions by Mostafa F. Hemieda).

The Roman Near East.” In William Tabbernee (ed.), Early Christianity in Contexts: An Exploration across Cultures and Continents. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic, 2014, 11–62. (co-authored with J.Cianca, P. Richardson, and W. Tabbernee).

“Third-Century AD Receipt for Taxes on Palm Groves (P. 13882).” In Fabian Reiter (ed.), Dokumentarische Texte der Berliner Papyrussammlung aus ptolemäischer und römischer Zeit zur Wiedereröffnung des Neuen Museums (BGU XX; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2014), 136 –138.

2013

Two Coptic Ostraca in the Brigham Young University Collection.” Chronique d’Égypte 88 (2013): 182–187.

The Date of P.Oxy. XLIII 3119, the Deputy-Prefect Lucius Mussius Aemilianus, and the Persecution of Christians by Valerian and Gallienus.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 186 (2013): 111–113.

2012

PSI IV 311: Early Evidence for Arianism at Oxyrhynchus?Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 49 (2012): 279–299.

Die vierte internationale Sommerschule in koptischer Papyrologie in Heidelberg.” Agora 6 (2012/13): 44–50.

A Potential Source for the Latin Preface in P.Oxy. XVIII 2194.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 183 (2012): 72–74.

2011

A Second-Century AD Letter of Introduction in the Washington State University Collection.” Tyche, Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik 26 (2011): 33–39.

A Gold Lamella with a Greek Inscription in the Brigham Young University Collection.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 177 (2011): 166–168.

Christians on the Move in Late Antique Oxyrhynchus.” In Philip Harland (ed.), Travel and Religion in Antiquity. Studies in Christianity and Judaism/Études sur le christianisme et le judaïsme 21. Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2011, 235–54.

2010

A Note on Dionysius of Alexandria’s Letter to Novatian in Light of Third-Century Papyri.” Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum/Journal of Ancient Christianity 14.2 (2010): 356–361.

Is P.Oxy. XLII 3057 the Earliest Christian Letter?” In Thomas J. Kraus and Tobias Nicklas (eds.), Early Christian Manuscripts: Examples of Applied Method and Approach. Texts and Editions for New Testament Study Vol. IV. Leiden: Brill, 2010, 97–113.

2009

P.Vindob. G 42417(= P116): Codex Fragment of the Epistle to the Hebrews 2:9–11 & 3:3–6 Reconsidered.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 171 (2009): 65–69.

P.Mich.inv. 1568v: Fragmentary Report of Proceedings in Red Ink from Late Second Century AD Oxyrhynchus.” Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 46 (2009): 23–29.

Travel and Communication in the New Testament.” In The New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2009, 5.652–56.

2008

A Note on the Meaning of the Term μονοκτίστ(ης).” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 166 (2008): 22.

Reconsidering the Dates of Three Christian Letters: P.Oxy. XVIII 2193, 2194, P.Köln IV 200 and a Reference in the Historia monachorum in AegyptoArchiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 54.2 (2008): 219–222.

Petition to a Beneficiarius from Late Third Century A.D. Oxyrhynchus.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 165 (2008): 186–190.

The Oratory of St. George in Rihab: The Oldest Extant Christian Building or Just Another Byzantine Church?Biblical Archaeology Review online archives http://www.bib-arch.org/online-exclusives/oldest-church.pdf (co-authored with Jenn Cianca)

Social Banditry? Galilean Banditry from Herod until the Outbreak of the First Jewish Revolt.” Scripta Classica Israelica 27 (2008): 35–53.

Beware of Bandits! Banditry and Land Travel in the Roman Empire.” Journeys. The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing 8.1 (2008): 1–20.

2007

P.Vindob. G 26079: A Parchment Codex Fragment of LXX Ecclesiastes 1:14–17.” Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 44 (2007): 23–26.

A Jew in Celsus’ True Doctrine? An Examination of Jewish Anti-Christian Polemic in the Second Century C.E.” Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 36.2 (2007): 297–315.