J Gregory Given
Biographic Data
| ID | 5177208 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Gregory Given |
| GIVEN NAMES | J Gregory |
| FAMILY NAME | Given |
| SIGNATURE | GIVEN J G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard College Writing Program, Harvard University https://dx.doi.org/1812 Cambridge, MA USA |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-5082-2915 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Ars Botanica
In this response to Schaefer’s Wild Experiment , we pick up Schaefer’s affective account of science and rationalism in order to follow the decidedly modernist tensions of knowledge production in the field of religious studies. We do so through the contemporary intellectual genealogy of comparison as method, especially as it is configured through the work of Jonathan Z. Smith, in which the analogy of botany figures prominently. We surface within r…
Discerning Fiction in the Letters of Ignatius of Antioch
Interpretive difficulties in the letters attributed to Ignatius of Antioch have long suggested to some readers that these letters are pseudepigrapic. This article builds upon recent work on ancient letter collections to consider whether some versions of Ignatiuss letters might be read as works of fiction. Acknowledging the epistemological difficulty of recognizing ancient epistolary fiction, I present an initial reading of the Greek Long Recensio…
Utility and Variance in Late Antique Witnesses to the Abgar-Jesus Correspondence
This article analyzes two sets of late antique witnesses to the Abgar-Jesus correspondence: the discussion of the letters in the literary record of the 4 th -6 th centuries and the Coptic version of the correspondence, as preserved in amulets and ritual formularies. I approach each of these sets with a particular interest in how the texts’ forms-both the textual variants contained within them and the physical objects upon which they are inscribed…
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Utility and Variance in Late Antique Witnesses to the Abgar-Jesus Correspondence
This article analyzes two sets of late antique witnesses to the Abgar-Jesus correspondence: the discussion of the letters in the literary record of the 4 th -6 th centuries and the Coptic version of the correspondence, as preserved in amulets and ritual formularies. I approach each of these sets with a particular interest in how the texts’ forms-both the textual variants contained within them and the physical objects upon which they are inscribed…
Discerning Fiction in the Letters of Ignatius of Antioch
Interpretive difficulties in the letters attributed to Ignatius of Antioch have long suggested to some readers that these letters are pseudepigrapic. This article builds upon recent work on ancient letter collections to consider whether some versions of Ignatiuss letters might be read as works of fiction. Acknowledging the epistemological difficulty of recognizing ancient epistolary fiction, I present an initial reading of the Greek Long Recensio…
Ars Botanica
In this response to Schaefer’s Wild Experiment , we pick up Schaefer’s affective account of science and rationalism in order to follow the decidedly modernist tensions of knowledge production in the field of religious studies. We do so through the contemporary intellectual genealogy of comparison as method, especially as it is configured through the work of Jonathan Z. Smith, in which the analogy of botany figures prominently. We surface within r…
Art (3 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (3 works) · History (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Analogy (1 work) · Antique (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Byzantine Studies and History (1 work)