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ix I have had the enormous good fortune to have the support and aid of innumerable colleagues, friends, and family members as I researched and wrote this book. While I cannot list them all by name, I am extremely grateful to them. Elizabeth Clark continues to be a wonderful mentor and role model, and I thank her for all she has given to the field and the kindness and generosity she has shown to me over many years. I owe a special thanks to Wendy Mayer, who welcomed me so warmly to the study of Antioch and John Chrysostom, a figure whom she knows so well. She has offered me more support than I could have imagined, and I am grateful for her friendship and reading suggestions. Philip Rousseau has also been a generous and longtime supporter of this project. His invitation to a conference on Antioch in 2009 provided the opportunity for me to meet many scholars whose work is cited below. Similarly, Catherine Saliou included me in the first seminar on Antioch that she organized in Paris in 2010, and I benefited greatly from the scholars I met there, including Klaus-Peter Todt. I am grateful for the conversations I have had with these and other scholars of fourth-century Antioch, including SilkePetra Bergjan, Gunnar Brands, Raffaella Cribiore, Chris De Wet, Susanna Elm, Blake Leyerle, Jaclyn Maxwell, Hatice Pamir, and Isabella Sandwell. During the years that it took to produce this book, I received several grants and fellowships, without which the research would not have been possible. Some of this research was assisted by the ACLS/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fellowship Program of the American Council of Learned Societies, made possible by funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. I am grateful for the ACLS/SSRC/NEH Fellowship in 2009–10; the Individual Research Grant in 2009–10 from the American Academy of Religion; the Franklin Research Grant in acknowledgments x acknowledgments 2008 from the American Philosophical Society; the NEH Summer Stipend in 2008 from the National Endowment for the Humanities; and the Professional Development Award in 2006 from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Alan Rutenberg read many drafts of my grant proposals, and I appreciate his tireless feedback. It is also my great pleasure to be able to thank here the people who made my research trips to Turkey and Syria so wonderful and productive. On my first trip to Turkey in 2006, Claudine Nagel facilitated a welcome at the Istanbul airport by her friends Ingrid and Can Karatay, whose gracious hospitality first introduced me to the country. I then flew to Antakya (the Roman city of Antioch) where I happened to meet Hulya and Ercan, two wonderful university students who adopted me on my first days in the city and even helped me locate the remains of the Roman hippodrome with nothing but Glanville Downey’s map of the Roman city and my wild gesticulations. They have continued to be delightful hosts on my subsequent trips to the city, and I am grateful for their kindness. My visits to Antakya have also been enriched beyond measure by the generosity of p. Domenico Bertogli, the priest in charge of Antakya’s Katolik Kilisesi. He welcomed me to the city in 2006, 2008, and again in 2010, and has been a rich source of wisdom about the Roman and Christian sites in the area. He has been an exquisite host, and I thank him for sharing his knowledge, for making available his church’s beautiful guesthouse, and especially for the tour of Symeon the Younger’s monastery and Seleucia Pieria. I look forward to delivering a copy of this book to his new library as a small token of my great appreciation. The friends and family who joined me on different parts of my research trips also made the experience much easier and more pleasurable. I thank my colleagues Melanie Johnson-DeBaufre and Laura Nasrallah, who joined me partway through my trip in Turkey in 2006; my mother, who joined me in Istanbul and Şanliurfa (the Roman city of Edessa) in 2008; and Dayna Kalleres, Wendy Mayer, and Wendy’s husband, Dan, who joined me in Antakya in 2008. I am also very pleased to have made the acquaintance of Nicola Dinç from Antakya. In 2010 I had the wonderful opportunity to do research in Syria. It was an incredible trip that would not have been possible, nor nearly so enjoyable, without the company, good...

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