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Christopher Frilingos
Assistant Professor
Department of Religious Studies
E-mail: frilingo@msu.edu
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2001 Principal Scholarly Interests Early Christianity, Roman culture. Biographical Profile I received a doctoral degree in Religious Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Fall 2001. My area of concentration is the religions of the ancient Mediterranean world – specifically Greek and Roman religions (“Paganism”), Early Judaism, and Early Christianity – with a focus on the history and literature of ancient Christianity. My first book, Spectacles of Empire: Monsters, Martyrs, and the Book of Revelation, was published in 2004 by the University of Pennsylvania Press as a volume in the series Divinations: Re-reading Late Antique Religions. The study takes the book of Revelation, the final book of the New Testament, as a central text for exploring the ambiguities of life under the Roman emperors. As part of this historical and cultural exploration, Spectacles of Empire frames the strange visions of Revelation with a diverse set of ancient institutions and writings, such as gladiatorial contests and examples of the ancient Greek romance. I am now at work on ancient Christian stories about Jesus and Mary as children, the so-called Infancy Gospels, such as the Infancy Gospel of Thomas and the Infancy Gospel of James. My courses are historical and comparative in their approach to religion
and include History of Christianity, Pagans, Christians, and Jews:
Religious Identity in the Ancient World (part of the Integrative Studies
program), and Introduction to New Testament. I have recently developed
Introduction to the Bible, a 100-level course I developed as part
of teaching grant, which introduces students to biblical materials
from the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, as well as selected writings
of the Deuterocanon. More information about my courses may be found
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