Paul Chandler Dilley

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1 Paul Chandler Dilley Departments of Religious Studies and Classics Digital Studio for Public Humanities 406 Gilmore Hall The University of Iowa Iowa City, IA ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Assistant Professor of Religious Studies (50%) and Classics (50%), Working Group in Digital Humanities, University of Iowa (August 20-present) Assistant Professor of History and Religious Studies, Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, and Jewish Studies, The Pennsylvania State University (August 2009-July 20) Visiting Scholar, University of Sydney (May-July 2009; May-July 200) Assistant Professor of History, Kansas State University (August 2008-May 2009) EDUCATION Ph.D. Religious Studies, Yale University (2008) Dissertation: The Care of the Other in Ancient Monasticism: A Cultural History of Ascetic Guidance. M.A. Classics, Yale University (2007) Exams in Greek and Latin poetry and prose, ancient history, and papyrology. École Pratique des Hautes Études ( ) Attended a seminar on Late Antique religion at the Collège de France. M.A., M.Phil. Religious Studies, Yale University (2002, 2005) Exams in New Testament, Second-Temple Judaism, Graeco-Roman religion, gender studies, early Christian theology, and the history of Christianity to 700. Humboldt Universität zu Berlin ( ) Private tutorials on Gnosticism and Manicheism with Prof. Hans-Martin Schenke. A. B. Comparative Study of Religion, Harvard University, Magna cum laude with highest honors ( ). Allied Field: Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.

2 AWARDS AND HONORS Co-PI, Mellon-Sawyer Seminar, : Cultural and Textual Exchanges: The Manuscript across Pre-Modern Eurasia (with co-pis Katherine Tachau and Timothy Barrett) Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in Critical Bibliography ( ) Obermann Interdisciplinary Research Grant (May 205; with Sarah Bond and Ryan Horne) For development of the Terra Biblica and Big Ancient Mediterranean Digital Humanities Projects University of Iowa Internal Funding Initiative (204; PI) Support for two research trips to the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin University of Iowa Digital Studio for Public Humanities Grant (202; PI); University of Iowa Old Gold Summer Fellowship (202; PI) Support for summer salary and to fund two graduate student RAs (Tyler Fyotek and Erin Peters) to work on the Christian Inscriptions of Egypt and Nubia online database. Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Renewal Fellowship, Berlin (June 20) Africana Research Center Grant, to develop the Christian Inscriptions of Egypt and Nubia database (200-20) Australian Research Council Discovery Project Grant ( ; CI and Co- Grant Writer) Award of $360,000 for the edition and study of the Manichaean Kephalaia codex at the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin, using digital imaging technology; with Professors Iain Gardner and Jason BeDuhn. Ken Forster Memorial Award for Excellence in Research and Teaching, Penn State University (200) American Philosophical Society Franklin Grant (Summer 2009) Dumbarton Oaks Fellowship (Declined) ( ) American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) Fellowship ( ) Dissertation research and field work in Egypt. Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation ( ) Dissertation writing and research; for topics involving religious studies or ethics. 2

3 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Renewal Fellowship (Summer 2006) Host: Professor Stephen Emmel, Westfälische-Wilhelms Universität, Münster. Jacob K. Javits Fellowship in the Humanities ( ) Federal government scholarship, funds four years of graduate study; awarded to two students in Religious Studies in Giamatti Fellowship, Yale University ( ) Awarded to one entering student in each department at Yale. Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, German Chancellor Fellowship ( ) Awarded to ten Americans under thirty for a year of research in Germany. Host: Professor Hans-Martin Schenke, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. Hoopes Prize, Harvard University (2000) Awarded to outstanding senior theses. Phi Beta Kappa, Summer Research Grant, Harvard University (999) Senior thesis research. PUBLICATIONS Book Manuscript: The Care of Souls in Early Christian Monasticism: Cognition and Discipline Co-Authored Monograph: (With Iain Gardner and Jason BeDuhn) Mani at the Court of the Persian Kings: Studies on the Chester Beatty Kephalaia Codex (Leiden: Brill, 204) Individually authored chapters: Mani s Wisdom at the Court of the Persian Kings: The Genre and Context of the Chester Beatty Kephalaia, 5-5; Also Schrieb Zarathustra? Mani as Interpreter of the Law of Zarades, 0-35; Hell Exists, and We Have Seen the Place Where It Is: Rapture and Religious Competition in Sasanian Iran, Critical Edition: (With Iain Gardner and Jason BeDuhn) The Dublin Kephalaia Codex (360 pages of an ancient Coptic text by the early Christian arch-heretic Mani; our first edition of this key scriptural document uses enhanced digital imaging funded by the Australian Research Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities). Edited Volume: 3

4 (With Claire Clivaz and David Hamidovic) Ancient Worlds in a Digital Culture (Washington, D.C.: Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies) (In Progress) Articles: Christus Saltans as Dionysos and David: The Dance of the Savior in its Late- Antique Cultural Context, Apocrypha 24 (203): Religious Intercrossing in Late Antique Eurasia: Fragmentation, Corruption, and Written Canons, in Journal of World History 24. (March 203): The Invention of Christian Tradition: Apocrypha, Imperial Policy, and Anti- Jewish Propaganda, in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 50.4 (200): Christian Icon Practice in Apocryphal Literature: Consecration and the Conversion of Synagogues into Churches, in Journal of Roman Archaeology 23 (200): Dipinti in Late Antiquity and Shenoute s Monastic Federation: Text and Image in the Paintings of the Red Monastery, in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 65 (2008): -8. Book Contributions (Invited, Peer-Reviewed): Introduction, in Sebastian Brock and Paul Dilley, The Martyrs of Tur Ber ain (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 204) Textual Aesthetics in the Paintings of the Red Monastery Church ; Inscribed Identities: Prosopography of the Red and White Monasteries in the Byzantine Period ; Inscriptions (Greek and Coptic) ; in Elizabeth Bolman, ed., The Red Monastery Church: Magnificence and Asceticism in Upper Egypt (New Haven: Yale University Press, Forthcoming 205) (3 chapters, ca. 65 pages) Introduction, Translation, and Commentary to the Gospel of the Savior/Cross Gospel, in Tony Burke and Brent Landau, eds., More New Testament Apocrypha (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, Forthcoming) The Inscriptions of Late Antique Egypt (ILAE): Digitizing Textual Culture, in Festschrift for Bentley Layton (Leuven: Peeters, Forthcoming) From Textual to Ritual Practice: Written Media and Authority in Shenoute s Canons, in Malcolm Choat and Mariachiara Giorda, eds., Writing and Communication in Early Egyptian Monasticism (Leiden: Brill, Forthcoming) 4

5 Digital Philology between Alexandria and Babel, in Claire Clivaz, Paul Dilley, and David Hamidovic, eds., Ancient Worlds in a Digital Culture (Washington, D.C.: Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies) (In Progress) Letter to a Holy Man with Prayer, in Koptische dokumentarische und literarische Texte, ed. Monika Hasitzka, Corpus Papyrorum Raineri 3 (Berlin: DeGruyter, 20), Talking about the Soul and its Ascent in the Dialogue of the Savior, in Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress of Coptic Studies, Leiden, 27 August 2 September 2000, ed. Mat Immerzeel and Jacques van der Vliet (Leuven: Peeters, 2004), Analysis of various images of the Great Altar of Pergamon in The Cities of Paul: Images and Interpretations from the Harvard New Testament Archaeology Project, ed. Helmut Koester (Fortress, CD-ROM, 2004) Digital Scholarship: Hieroi Logoi: Digital Resources for Religion in Late Antiquity (hieroilogoi.org): 94 posts, 65,234 hits, and,643 followers as of 2/09/205 (202-present) Peter, Society of Biblical Literature Bible Odyssey Website (NEH supported;,400 words and 7 images; to be published online /203) Inscriptions of Late Antique Egypt : a database under development (202- present) Terra Biblica: A Geospatial Analysis of Biblical and Related Literature; and BAM: Big Ancient Mediterranean (Sarah Bond, co-pi) (203-present) Book Reviews: Review of Ariel López, Shenoute of Atripe and the Uses of Poverty: Rural Patronage, Religious Conflict and Monasticism in Late Antique Egypt, in Journal of Roman Studies (submitted November 204) Review of Daniel Richter, Cosmopolis: Imagining Community in Late Classical Athens and the Early Roman Empire in Bryn Mawr Classical Review (March 22, 202). Review of Hannah M. Cotton, Robert Hoyland, Jonathan Price, and David Wasserstein, eds., From Hellenism to Islam: Cultural and Linguistic Change in the Roman Near East. Classical Review 60 (200):

6 Review of Hans-Josef Klauck, The Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles: An Introduction. Review of Biblical Literature ( 9/4/2009) Review of Augustine Casiday, Frederick W. Norris, eds., The Cambridge History of Christianity: Volume 2, Constantine to c Review of Biblical Literature ( 8/6/2009) Review of Maria-Zoe Petropoulou s Animal Sacrifice in Ancient Greek Religion, Judaism, and Christianity, 00 BC to AD 200. Bryn Mawr Classical Review (bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2009/ html) Review of Nicola Denzey s The Bone Gatherers: The Lost Worlds of Early Christian Women. Review of Biblical Literature ( /26/08) Review of Jennifer Hevelone-Harper s Disciples of the Desert: Monks, Laity, and Spiritual Authority in Sixth-Century Gaza. Journal of Early Christian Studies 4 (2006) 2:25-2. TEACHING EXPERIENCE University of Iowa Semester/ Yr ADVISEES COURSES TAUGHT Undergrad Graduate Course Number and Title Students Enrolled Fall Independent Study Spring L:272:00 Latin Prose Composition 5 032:96:00 Senior Majors Seminar 5 032:262:008 Readings in the History of Christianity Fall E:082:00 Ancient Mediterranean Religions 28 43:030:005 Honors First Year Seminar: Martyrdom from Socrates to Islam 9 6

7 032::AAA The Judeo-Christian Tradition 032:262:008 Readings in the History of Christianity 77 Spring :203:002 Western Religious Traditions 8 20L:228:00 Later Empire 9 20G:99:0 Undergraduate individual study, 2 hours/week (Coptic) Fall :00 Judaism, Christianity and Islam :082/20E:082 Ancient Mediterranean Religions 20E:99:00 Private Assignments (Erica Johnson, Erin Peters, John Porter); 20G:202:0 Advanced Reading (Tyler Fyotek) Spring :43/20E:46 Early Christianity: Jesus-Rise of Islam 20G: 02 Second-Year Greek II G:99:0 Undergraduate individual study, 2 hours/week (Kyle Oskvig) 032:290:008 graduate individual study (Sumeyye Pakdil) Fall :00 Judaism, Christianity and Islam :082/20E:082 Ancient Mediterranean Religions 32:262 Graduate Individual Study (Lisa Omanson) Graduate Advising: Cory Taylor, Graduate Advisor (9/202-present, Comprehensive Exams completed 5/205); Tyler Fyotek, Dissertation Advisor (4/204-present); Thomas Rose, Dissertation Committee (Defended 7/205); Aaron Burns, Dissertation Committee (Defended 6/205); Joshua Langseth, Dissertation Committee (Defended 4/203); John Kennedy, Sumeyye Pakdil, Kyle Dieleman, Comprehensive Exam Committee; Cale Staley, Graduate RA (/204-5/204). 9 7

8 Undergraduate Research Advising: Leah Degrazia (ICRU Fellow, Fall 203-Spring 204); Jacob Flatness (ICRU Fellow, Fall 204-Spring 205). The Pennsylvania State University Semester/ Yr ADVISEES COURSES TAUGHT Undergrad Graduate Course Number and Title Spring 20 0 Doctoral Seminar on Religion in the Roman World Students Enrolled 7 Introduction to Early Christianity 32 Individual Study on Early Christian Doctrine and Scriptural Interpretation Courses: On-Site Study Seminar in Egypt (Winter 200); Honors Seminar on Martyrdom and Noble Death in Comparative Perspective Ancient Monotheisms (Fall 200); First-Year Seminar on Sacred Space and the Synagogue in the Ancient World (Fall 200); Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity, Islam (Spring 2009); Later Greek Literature (Spring 2009); Ancient Mediterranean Religions (Fall 2009); Introduction to the New Testament and Early Christianity (Fall 2009). Graduate Advising: Comprehensive Exam (08/20; 2/20) and MA Exam (08/200) Brad Hendricks (CAMS/Ancient History); MA exam Committee, Stefan Hodges-Kluck (4/20); Comprehensive Exam (07/200), Matthew Isner (Art History). Undergraduate Advising: Senior Honors Thesis on Early Christian Baptism in its Graeco-Roman Context (Fall-Spring 200); Individual Study on the Historical Jesus (Spring 2009). Kansas State University Courses: Graduate Seminar on Theories of Religion (Spring 2009); Ancient Roman History and Culture (Spring 2009); Ancient Egyptian Religion (Winter 2009); Ancient Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (Fall 2008); Ancient Greek History and Culture (Fall 2008). Undergraduate Advising: Individual Study on Later Latin Literature (Spring 2009) Yale University 8

9 Part-time Acting Instructor, Later Latin Literature (Fall 2005); Teaching Fellow, Islam and Fundamentalism (Spring 2005); Teaching Fellow, Introduction to World Religions (Fall 2004); Part-time Acting Instructor, Introduction to Coptic (Fall 2003-Spring 2004) LANGUAGES Expertise: Greek, Latin, Syriac, Coptic, Old Nubian. Proficiency: Classical Hebrew, Classical Arabic, Classical Armenian, Middle Iranian. Modern: German (advanced proficiency), French (proficiency), Egyptian Colloquial Arabic (basic proficiency). FIELD WORK Manuscript Study, Chester Beatty Library, Dublin Kephalaia Project (May-June 204); June-July 203; May 202; March 202; July 20; July 200) Epigraphist, Red Monastery Project, Sohag, Egypt ( ) Project funded by ARCE and USAID. Director: Elizabeth Bolman. This involves yearly travel to the site of the Red Monastery to record new inscriptions uncovered during each season of conserving the Late Antique wall paintings. Field Archaeologist, Yale Monastic Archaeology Project ( ); Project funded by Yale Egyptology Fund Grants, Dumbarton Oaks Project Grants, National Geographic Society Research and Exploration Grant. Director: Stephen Davis. PRESENTATIONS Invited Lectures/Master Class: Mani as Hermeneutes: Interpreting the Law(s), Workshop: La controverse religieuse entre les Zoroastriens, les Manichéens et les autres, Collège de France (June 205) Zarathustra between Mesopotamia and Central Asia: Comparing Christian and Manichaean Traditions, Turfan Workshop Berlin (June 204) New Manichaean Sources from Egypt, School of Oriental and African Studies, London (September 203) Writing Culture in Egyptian Monasticism, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt (May 203) Christian Inscriptions of Egypt, 3-Day Master Class delivered at Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt (May 203) 9

10 New Light on Manichaeism: The Chester Beatty Kephalaia, Berlin- Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (June 20) The Religions of Late-Antique Eurasia in Contact: Mani on Fragmentation, Adulteration, and Written Canons, New York University (February 200) Reconsidering the Connections of Gnosticism with Egyptian Religion, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia (May 2009) Conference Presentations: The Monastic Care of Souls and the Demon of Porneia, Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity XI, University of Iowa (March, 205) Coptic Scriptorium Beyond the Manuscript: Tokenization and Corpus Analysis, Georgetown, Washington, D.C. (March, 205; Remote Presentation) Graduate Education in the Digital Humanities: The Place of Classics, Greek and Latin in an Age of Open Data Hybrid Web Conference, Leipzig (December 204) Also Schrieb Zarathustra? New Manichaean Sources for the Law of Zarades, Society of Biblical Literature/American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Diego (November 204) Neugierig auf die Datei? Reflections on DH Research and Early Christianity, Society of Biblical Literature/American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Baltimore (November 203) The Genre and Context of the Chester Beatty Kephalaia, International Association of Manichaean Studies, London (September 203) Court Networks and Religious Exchange in Late-Antique Eurasia, Connected Worlds Conference, University of California at Berkeley (January 203) Homer Christianus: From Egypt to the Abbāsid Court, American Philological Association Annual Meeting, Seattle (January 203) (in absentia) The Canons and their Afterlife in the Testamentum Sinuthii, Tenth International Congress of Coptic Studies, Rome (September 202) The Prosopography of the Red and White Monasteries, Tenth International Congress of Coptic Studies, Rome (September 202) 0

11 The Law of Zarades : New Sources for Zarathustra in the Chester Beatty Kephalaia, Ninth Biennial Iranian Studies Conference of the International Society for Iranian Studies, Istanbul (August 202) Introducing Hieroi Logoi: A Blog on Late Antique Religion, North American Patristic Society Annual Meeting, Chicago (May 202) Inscriptions in Late-Antique Egypt and Nubia: An Interactive Database, Ancient Religion and Modern Technology Workshop, Brown University (February 202) (partial support) Incorporating the Fear of God into the Early Christian Sensorium, Society of Biblical Literature/American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting (November 20) Reconsidering the Connections of Gnosticism with Egyptian Religion, Nag Hammadi and Gnosticism Seminar, Yale University (May 20) The Vision of the Martyr Mihr-Narse in the Context of Late Antique Iranian Religions, at the 7 th World Syriac Conference, Kerala, India (September 200) Apocalypticism and the Fear of God in Ancient Christianity, panel presentation at the 20 th World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, University of Toronto (August 200) Codicology, Paleography, and Philology of the Dublin Kephalaia, panel presentation at the 7 th Conference of the International Association of Manichaean Studies, Chester Beatty Library, Dublin (September 2009) The Invention of Christian Tradition: Apocrypha, Imperial Policy, and Anti- Jewish Propaganda, at the Nag Hammadi and Gnosticism seminar, Université Laval, Canada (March 2009) The Reception of the Law in Early Christianity, Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting (November 2008) The Invention of Christian Tradition: Women, Icons, and the Consecration of Churches, Society of Biblical Literature/American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Diego (November 2007) Hagiography, Commemoration, and the Ritual Production of Kinship, Society of Biblical Literature/American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Diego (November 2007) Digraphia in Late Antique Egypt, American Philological Association Annual Meeting, San Diego (January 2007)

12 Stagirius and the Trauma of Conversion, Society of Biblical Literature/ American Academy of Religion, Washington, DC (November 2006) Synagogue-to-Church Conversions and the Archaeology of Judaeo-Christian Hybridity, Society of Biblical Literature/American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (November 2006) Theotokos Icons and the Politics of Monumental Conversion after the Council of Ephesus, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo (May 2006) An Overview of Coptic Papyrology, International Association of Coptic Studies, Paris (June 2004) A Late-Antique Christian Amulet in the Beinecke Library, American Philological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco (January 2004) Response to Professor Karen King, Harvard University, What is Gnosticism? at Harvard-Yale-Brown Day, New Haven, (April 2003) SEMINARS Master and Disciple: The Transmission of Knowledge in Religious Cultures, International Seminar at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (July 9-4, 2006) Vatican Program in Spoken Latin, Rome (June-July 2002) PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Society of Biblical Literature Bible Odyssey Editorial Board (202-present) Reviewer, Journal of Early Christian Studies (Spring 204) Referee for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (202, 205) Referee for Research Grants Council of Hong Kong ( ) Panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities, Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Program (Fall 203) Referee for monograph series American Studies in Papyrology (2008) MEMBERSHIPS 2

13 American Philological Association (2002-Present) American Society of Papyrologists (2002-Present) International Association of Manichaean Studies (2007-present) International Association of Coptic Studies (2002-present) North American Patristics Society (2007-present) Society of Biblical Literature/American Academy of Religion (999-Present) SERVICE AT UNIVERSITY OF IOWA Digital Humanities: Advisory Board, Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities (Fall 204-Present); Organized with Stephen Voyce a -day workshop on the study of literature with R, taught by Jeffrey Rydberg Cox, UMKC (October 204, 20 participants); Presentations at the Opening of the Public Studio for the Digital Humanities at the University of Iowa (August 20) the CLAS Dean s Advisory Board Meeting (September 20); and Digital Studio s Lunch Series (November 203); participation at Digital Humanities Round Table, Obermann Center (October 20 and October 202). Religious Studies Department: departmental review committee, Ballard Seashore Fellowship (February 202); co-developer of Religions in Global Context course; co-coordinator of departmental seminar (202-present), including presentation (April 202); co-faculty coordinator for the 203 Religion, Literature, and the Arts Conference (Fall 203); search committee, Digital Media and Religion Position (Fall 203-Spring 204); organizing committee, Arab Spring Conference (Spring 205). Classics Department: Undergraduate Greek Competition (spring 202); Fourth- Year Graduate Exam (spring 202); presentation on papyrology in Classics Proseminar (spring 202); committee for Green Essay Prize (fall 203); mock interviews (fall 203); coordinator for departmental exchange with the University of Leizig s Digital Humanities program (December 204-present). MEDIA/OUTREACH Jesus as Lord of the Dance: From Early Christianity to Medieval Nubia, Biblical Archaeology, 8/8/204 (over 3k posts to Facebook): 3

14 Invited Guest Editorial, Iowa Press-Citizen, Zealot Deserves its Broad Audience, 8/7/203: Interviewed on WorldCanvass program (on book cultures, languages, and arts of indigenous peoples), Friday, March 8, 203; broadcast on UITV and KRUI-FM: Quoted in Natalie Wolchover, Is the Gospel of Jesus Wife a Forgery?, September 29, 202: WORK EXPERIENCE Graduate Affiliate, Saybrook College, Yale University ( ) Intern, World Monuments Fund, New York City (2004) Assistant to Curator of Ancient Manuscripts, Beinecke Library ( ) Editor-in-Chief, Let s Go Germany 200 (2000) Editor, Harvard Lampoon ( ) Poetry Editor, Harvard Advocate ( ) 4