Monographs

  • Paideia and Cult: Christian Initiation in Theodore of Mopsuestia. Hellenic Studies Series 57. Washington, DC and Cambridge, MA: The Center for Hellenic Studies and Harvard University Press, 2013. Full text freely available as an ebook or as a webpage. [A Russian translation of this monograph has also been produced. Translation by Z.A. Lurie. Russian introduction by V.K. Pichugina and Z.A. Lurie. Paideia Series. St. Petersburgh: Publishing House of the RKhG, 2023.]

Edited Volumes

  • Conversion in Late Antiquity: Christianity, Islam, and Beyond: Papers from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar, University of Oxford, 2009-2010. (Co-edited with Arietta Papaconstantinou and Neil McLynn.) Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2015.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

  • “Modeling a Born-Digital Factoid Prosopography using the TEI and Linked Data.” (Co-written with Nathan P. Gibson and Katayoun Torabi). Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative (2022), https://journals.openedition.org/jtei/3979.

  • “From Manuscript Catalogues to a Handbook of Syriac Literature: Modeling an Infrastructure for Syriaca.org.” ( Co-written with Nathan P. Gibson and David A. Michelson.) Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities, Special Issue on Computer-Aided Processing of Intertextuality in Ancient Languages (May 2017), http://jdmdh.episciences.org/1395.

  • “Religious Violence and Eschatology in the Syriac Julian Romance.” Journal of Early Christian Studies 19.4 (2011), 565-87. https://doi.org/10.1353/earl.2011.0051.

Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

  • “Discourses of Religious Violence and Christian Charity: The Christianization of Syria in Jacob of Sarug’s On the Fall of the Idols,” in Motions of Late Antiquity: Essays on Religion, Politics, and Society in Honor of Peter Brown, edited by Jamie Kreiner and Helmut Reimitz. Turnhout: Brepols, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/156584.

  • “Keeping Secrets and Making Christians: Catechesis and the Revelation of the Christian Mysteries.” In Revelation, Literature and Community in Late Antiquity, edited by Philippa Townsend and Moulie Vidas, 131-51. Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/160480.

Book Chapters

  • “Syriaca.Org: New Digital Tools for the Study of the Medieval Middle East.” (Co-written with David A. Michelson.) In Исторический Опыт Мировых Цивилизаций И Россия: Материалы IV Международной Научно-Практической Конференции 13 Ноября 2015 [Historical Research in World and Russian Civilizations: Papers of the IV International Conference of Scholars and Practitioners 13 November 2015], edited by I. K. Lapshina and O. V. Zakharova, 19–23. Vladimir: Vladimir State University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/158440.

Entries in Reference Works

  • “Conversion;” “Fasting;” “Godparents, Godchildren;” “Kinship, Spiritual;” “Sermons, Late Antiquity;” “Theodore of Mopsuestia,” in The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, ed. Roger S. Bagnall et al. (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012).

  • “Gregory of Nussa,” “Gregory of Nazianzos,” and “Basil of Caesarea,” (with George Karamanolis) in The Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists: The Greek Tradition and Its Many Heirs, ed. Paul T. Keyser and Georgia L. Irby-Massie (London: Routledge, 2008).

Book Reviews

  • Review of Philip Michael Forness, Preaching Christology in the Roman Near East: A Study of Jacob of Serugh. Oxford Early Christian Studies. (Oxford: University of Oxford Press, 2018), Church History 89, no. 4 (December 2020): 909–11. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009640721000159.

  • Review of Nathan Witkamp, Tradition and Innovation: Baptismal Rite and Mystagogy in Theodore of Mopsuestia and Narsai of Nisibis. Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements 149. (Leiden: Brill, 2018), Church History 88, no. 2 (June 2019): 482–84. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009640719001318.