Contents

2012 NAPS Presidential Address
Fecit ad astra viam: Daughters, Wives, and the Metrical Epitaphs of Late Ancient Rome Dennis Trout	1
Innocent I’s Letter to the Bishops of Apulia Geoffrey D. Dunn	27
The Evolution of the Syrian Orthodox Church in the Pre-Islamic Period: From Greek to Syriac? Fergus Millar	43
Sensory Experience and the Women Martyrs of Najran Richard Barrett	93
The Angelic Life in Desert and Ladder: John Climacus’s Re-Formulation of Ascetic Spirituality Jonathan L. Zecher	111
A Jewish Critique of Christianity from Second-Century Alexandria: Revisiting the Jew Mentioned in Contra Celsum Maren R. Niehoff	151
The Speech Act of Swearing: Gregory of Nazianzus’s Oath in Poema 2.1.2 in Context Suzanne Abrams Rebillard	177
Watchful Greeks and Lazy Romans: Disciplining Sleep in Late Antiquity Leslie Dossey	209
The Matriarch as Model: Sarah, the Cult of the Saints, and Social Control in a Syriac Homily of Pseudo-Ephrem David L. Eastman	241
Living above Gender: Insights from Saint Maximus the Confessor Doru Costache	261
Book Forum: Brent D. Shaw, Sacred Violence: African Christians and Sectarian Hatred in the Age of Augustine	291
ORIGENIST TEXTUALITIES Guest Editor: Jeremy Schott
Introduction: Origenist Textualities Jeremy Schott	323
Plotinus’s Portrait and Pamphilus’s Prison Notebook: Neoplatonic and Early Christian Textualities at the Turn of the Fourth Century c.e. Jeremy Schott	329
Literacy and Memory in Evagrius’s Monasticism Rebecca Krawiec	363
Short Words on Earth: Theological Geography in Rufinus’s Commentary on the Apostles’ Creed Catherine M. Chin	391
Straight Reading: Shame and the Normal in Epiphanius’s Polemic against Origen Blossom Stefaniw	413
Epiphanius of Salamis and the Antiquarian’s Bible Andrew S. Jacobs	437
Anthropologies of Continuity: The Body and Soul in Tertullian, Perpetua, and Early Christianity Eliezer Gonzalez	479
“Christ the Power and Wisdom of God”: Biblical Exegesis and Polemical Intertextuality in Athanasius’s Orations against the Arians Khaled Anatolios	503
The Triumph of Pro-Nicene Theology over Anti-Monarchian Exegesis: Cyril of Alexandria and Theodore of Heraclea on John 14.10–11 Matthew R. Crawford	537
Experience, Freedom, and Canon in the Work of Gregory of Nyssa Antigone Samellas	569
Helena: The Subversive Persona of an Ideal Christian Empress in Early Byzantium Andriani Georgiou	597
Note
Jerome’s She-Wolf Charles Goldberg	625
Book Reviews	137, 311, 465, 629
Books Received	147, 319, 477, 643