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The Archaeology of ‘Greater Mesopotamia’ (ancient Iraq, Syria, Iran and Turkey)
Ancient Near Eastern urban origins, growth and collapse
History of archaeological exploration and archaeological practice in Mesopotamia, particularly in the early 20th century
Orientalism, colonialism and archaeology
Pottery, and Bronze Age chronologies
The material manifestations of Assyrian imperial growth in the Near East

women in the early Church, children in late ancient Christianity, parental roles, family, late antiquity, asceticism, monasticism, hagiography, apocrypha, Syriac language and literature, Armenian language and literature, Georgian language and literature, Coptic, Ethiopic, Christian Arabic, women in the Christian Orient, Jesus and Mary in early Islamic traditions, transmission and reception history of apocryphal traditions in connection with Judaism and early Islam, intersections of hagiography and historiography, Palestine in late antiquity,

Witchcraft Accusation against Women in Imperial Rome; Comics & Classics; Mediterranean / Indian Ocean Interactions; Digital Humanities; World History

Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity, Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, Apocalypticism and Mysticism, Gender Studies, Aesthetics

Papyrology, "the political and social dimensions of Hellenistic literature (and its later reception) and ancient Greek fiction writing."
from https://classics.stanford.edu/people/susan-stephens on 8/24/17.

ancient military history, ancient intelligence and spying

Religionen des antiken Mittelmeerraums:

Polis-Religion und religiöser Pluralismus in der griechisch-römischen Kultur
Religion und philosophischer Diskurs
Gender
Religion in der Zweiten Sophistik

Methodologie und Forschungsgeschichte der Religionswissenschaft
Literatur und Religion
Gender Studies

Gospel studies: Gospel of Mark and Ancient Historiography; Pauline epistolography: Second Corinthians, Philippians; early Christian literary history: Ben Sira and Early Jewish Literature; Hermeneutics

Drawing upon a wide range of sources and theoretical perspectives in the fields of religion and literature, Professor Renger’s work focuses on the creation and dissemination of myths, legends, idols and icons in a variety of ancient and modern cultural contexts. Primarily, she is concerned with the Western classical tradition, with numerous articles and books that explore the continuing effects of Ancient Greek and Roman mythology and religion throughout history up to the present day. This work consistently centers on the use of mythological themes and motifs in literary texts, film and popular culture as well as in modern and contemporary forms of esotericism and alternative religion.

Another research area investigates dynamic tensions in the history of religions between Asia, Europe and the U.S. In particular, she is interested in cross-cultural interactions and their impact on religious agency as manifested both in society and literature. Of specific concern in this connection are charismatic teachers and leaders, their self-conception and attraction to followers, as well as the topics of discipleship and the transmission and transformation of religious and philosophical knowledge. Related to this, she specifically examines cultural transformations of Buddhism in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Classical Greek history, Greek religion and medicine, Augustan Rome

Second Temple Judaism, early Christianity, and Jewish/Christian relations in Late Antiquity.

Late Antiquity, Dress and Performativity, History of Religion, Medicine, and Disability (REMEDHE co-founder), NT Apocrypha, Melania(s), gender

Archaeological theory, archaeology of Turkey, Ancient Mediterranean Religions