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Nicole Kelley Assistant Professor of Religion M05 Dodd Hall Florida State University Tallahassee, FL 32306 Office: 211 Dodd Hall Phone: (850) 645-1567 Fax: (850) 644-7225 Email: nkelley [at] fsu.edu Office Hours: TBA Curriculum Vitae Background Nicole Kelley (Ph.D. ’03, Harvard University, The Study of Religion: New Testament and Christian Origins) teaches courses in the area of ancient Christianity. Her research focuses on Christian apocryphal literature, the interaction between late antique Jews and Christians, martyrdom and religious violence, the production and contestation of religious identities in the ancient world, and ancient conceptions of the body as an artifact of religious import. She is currently working on a book provisionally entitled The True Prophet and the Apostle: Knowledge and Religious Authority in the Pseudo-Clementine Recognitions, which explores the competing claims to authenticity and authority embedded in the multiple source layers of a fourth century Christian text. Dr. Kelley’s next research project will examine the religious significance of congenital deformities in late antique and early medieval Christian writings. Research Interests Christian representations of deformities and disabilities Pseudo-Clementines Illness and healing in the ancient world Christian martyr acts Ancient attitudes toward magic and astrology Selected Publications Books Knowledge and Religious Authority in the Pseudo-Clementines: Situating the Recognitions in Fourth-Century Syria. WUNT 2.213; Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2006. Articles “Problems of Knowledge and Authority in the Pseudo-Clementine Romance of Recognitions,” Journal of Early Christian Studies 13.3 (2005), forthcoming. “The Cosmopolitan Expression of Josephus’ Prophetic Perspective in the Jewish War,” Harvard Theological Review 97.3 (2004) 257-274. Current Research Projects Conference Presentations “Epilepsy in Late Antique Christian Writings,” to be presented at the Disability Studies and Healthcare in the Bible and Near East section, AAR/SBL Meeting, November 2007 “The Epidemiology of Religion in the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies,” presented at the XV International Conference on Patristic Studies, Oxford UK, August 2007 “On Recycling Texts and Traditions: The Pseudo-Clementine Recognitions and Religious Life in Fourth-Century Syria,” presented at the colloquium “Late Antique Crossroads in the Levant: Space, Ritual, Texts and Daily Life,” Montreal, Canada, November 2006 “Pseudo-Clementine Polemics against Sacrifice: A Window onto Religious Life in the Fourth Century?”, presented at the colloquium “Christian Apocryphal Texts for the New Millennium: Achievements, Prospects, and Challenges,” Ottawa, Canada, September-October 2006 “What is the Value of Sense Perception in the Pseudo-Clementine Romance?”, presented at the Colloquium on the Pseudo-Clementine Romance, Lausanne and Geneva, Switzerland, July-August 2006 “Astrological Knowledge and Apostolic Competition: The Pseudo-Clementine Recognitions in the Context of Fourth-Century Syria,” to be presented at the Christian Apocrypha Section, AAR/SBL Annual Meeting, November 2005 “Two Ancient Christian Interpretations of John 9.1-3,” to be presented at the Biblical Scholarship and Disabilities Section, AAR/SBL Annual Meeting, November 2005 “Philosophy as Training for Death: Reading the Ancient Christian Martyr Acts as Spiritual Exercises,” presented at the North American Patristic Society Annual Meeting, June 2005 “Seeing is Believing: The Acquisition of Prophetic Knowledge in the Pseudo-Clementine Recognitions,” presented at the annual meeting of the Association pour l’étude de la littérature apocryphe chrétienne (AELAC), Pseudo-Clementine Working Group, July 2004 “The Deformed Body as Theological Terrain in the Pseudo-Clementine Recognitions and Gregory of Tours,” presented at the North American Patristic Society Annual Meeting, June 2004 Teaching Specializations New Testament Gospels and Acts Suffering and martyrdom in ancient Christianity Christian apocryphal literature Jewish Christianity and Christian attitudes toward Jews and Judaism Recent Courses Fall 2007 REL 3936/5937 Christianity after the New Testament REL 4290 Acts of the Apostles Spring 2008 REL 3936 Magic and Superstition in Antiquity REL 4511/5515 Christianity in Late Antiquity [Back to Top]
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